| Black Agenda Report

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
12 Dec 2018
Readers shared their opinions on the history of corruption in American political families, the militarism of Bernie Sanders, and Marc Lamont Hill’s reaction to attack from the Israel lobby. We have strong letters for “If There’s A Hell Below, That’s Where He’ll Go: The BAR Obituary on George H.W.
Murtaza Hussain
Study Shows US Has Caused the Death of Millions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan
12 Dec 2018
By conservative estimate, the US has directly killed nearly half a million people, and doomed millions more, in just three of the countries it is attacking. “If the conflicts in Libya, Yemen, Somalia, or Syria had been included, the death toll would likely be significantly higher.”
John McCullough
ACTION ALERT: CNN Must Rehire Pundit Who Defended Democratic Rights
12 Dec 2018
The Zionist slanders and attempts to impoverish Marc Lamont Hill must be answered by massive, determined action by everyone concerned with democracy. “To equate a loss of domination (as a result of universal suffrage) with ‘genocide’ echoes the claims that demographic changes in the United States…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Hillary Clinton 2020 is Malcolm X’s American Nightmare on Steroids
12 Dec 2018
Clinton’s reemergence is a dangerous reminder of who she really is: a “too big to fail” parasite of finance capital and the war machine. “Her embarrassing defeat to Trump did not cause the ruling elites to disinvest from the Clinton machine.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Yellow Vests Show the Way
12 Dec 2018
The yellow vests ought to be inspirations for the 99% on this side of the Atlantic ocean. “They will not accept neoliberal plunder without a fight.” French law requires drivers to keep gilets jaunes, yellow vests, in their vehicles. The vests are a safety measure ensuring visibility for anyone who…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Another Sentimental PSYOP
12 Dec 2018
Prelude: One Warlord croons, “Bomb, bomb, bomb—bomb, bomb Iran—“ another Warlord solemnly chants, in Spanish, “Yes, we can!” A Warlord of Wall Street and Washington Lies ensconced in scribbling and inTeflon Canonized by high priests of the Pentagon By holy prophets of Boeing and Raytheon Gaslighted…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Julian Assange: No Surrender
12 Dec 2018
Supporters of the Wikileaks founder say he won’t leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London unless the British police drag him away. “If you look at his enemies, and you look at who wants to lock him up forever, it's clear that we have to defend him.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
An Electoral Strategy to Defeat Police Oppression – and Its Black Allies -- in Chicago
13 Dec 2018
Chicago’s movement against official lawlessness has found they have no choice but to challenge virtually the whole Black Democratic establishment for collaborating with police murder and impunity. “So long as we allow police tyranny and terror to exist in our communities, for that period of time we…
Teodrose Fikre
Bigoted Paternalism Behind “Russians Targeted African-Americans” NY Times Article
19 Dec 2018
The Russiagate propagandists sound like the segregationists of yesteryear, warning of “outside agitators” trying to “stir up the Nigras.” “The Times would have us believe that the reason African-Americans did not uniformly vote for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats is because they were too…
Wilmer J. Leon III
“Green Book” – Not Our Story; His-Story, Their Fiction
19 Dec 2018
Hollywood does not hesitate to totally fictionalize, diminish and malign a Black historical figure, Dr Don Shirley, for its own white supremacist purposes. “The film weaves a totally false narrative about Dr. Shirley and his relationship with Lip.”