| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
US Intel Will Bring Assange to the US in Chains
14 Nov 2018
Julian Assange, a hero in the struggle against imperial wars and the lies that states tell to justify them, is in mortal danger. “Hillary Clinton suggested drone bombing Julian Assange, and other US politicians called for his execution by other means.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Midterm Results: the War Party Rules
14 Nov 2018
There is no doubt who won the midterm elections: the War Party, which for generations has been virtually unopposed in the US. “Democrats gave a wink and a nod to the military industrial complex by remaining silent on the question of war.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Two Sides to Every Question?
14 Nov 2018
Can a Mom and Pop store be too big to fail? Could a mafia don be businessman of the year? Can a hitman plead, “Just doin’ my job?” Can war criminals be Heroes? Could a confederate fighter be noble? Was Goebbels a Journalist? Should priests supervise children’s sleepovers? Is Boss Tweet to be…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ruling Class War Games at the White House
15 Nov 2018
The White House press corps, like the corporate media in general, are foot soldiers in a wider conflict between sections of the ruling oligarchy: Trump versus anti-Trump. “Most of the White House press corps are anti-Trump partisans in this intra-ruling class war.”
Thomas C. Mountain
Saying Goodbye to UN Sanctions Against Eritrea
20 Nov 2018
Like so many imperial projects, the US had to abandon its long campaign to crush socialist Eritrea through sanctions and defamation. “Eritrea has survived crippling sanctions and emergedvictorious by bringing peace to the Horn of Africa,” It isn't often the UN Security Council votes unanimously to…
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap
20 Nov 2018
Self-help groups have revived the cooperative ethos, but small-scale projects can’t rescue Blacks from racism-plus-capitalism. “Undoing economic segregation may be a problem too complicated for cooperative ownership alone to solve.”
Colin Jenkins
Prisoner Prophet: Revisiting George Jackson's Analysis of Systemic Fascism
20 Nov 2018
Trump is not bringing fascism to America, but rather, fascism was built into the American project from day one. “Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Suzy Hansen’s “Notes on a Foreign Country“and Carrie Bramen’s “American Niceness”
20 Nov 2018
How do Americans, especially white Americans, appear to the rest of the world, and are they really as “nice” as they think they are? “Trump is simply an extreme continuation of a kind of international white American supremacy that had persisted in conservative and liberal forms for many decades.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Julian Assange in US Intel’s Company Town
20 Nov 2018
The Trump Justice Department seems to be preparing to do what the Obama Justice Department would not do: put Julian Assange on trial. “No national security defendant has ever won a case in the Eastern District of Virginia.”
Cat Brooks
This Law Helps Police Get Away With Murder. Let's End It.
20 Nov 2018
Officers, who are armed and tasked to serve and protect, should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, not a lower one. California is a progressive stronghold. It’s also home to some of the most unjust laws in the nation.