| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World: A Review
02 Jan 2019
The U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests. “There is plenty of evidence that the United States is the most depraved and dangerous “meddler” in the affairs of other nations that history has ever known.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa!
02 Jan 2019
Paul Kagame’s troops most likely shot down a plane carrying two African presidents, igniting genocides that killed millions — but the Rwandan President has never been charged. “Former Rwandan General Nyamwasa said that Kagame most definitely ordered his troops to shoot down the plane carrying…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Warren and the Trap for Black Voters
02 Jan 2019
Whether Democrats are openly obstructionist corporatists like Pelosi, or liberal sounding like Warren, they will not consider any meaningful systemic reforms. “In the South, Democrat means black and those voters have every right to ask hard questions and make clear demands.”
Nzinga Damu
45 Questions To Help Us Understand Our HBCU Crisis
03 Jan 2019
The questions below are offfered to help us look deeper into the crises of our Historically Black Colleges and Univerisites. By thinking about, by answering, and by discussing questions like these with your fellow students, with your instructors, and especially with campus workers, it's our…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Yes, White People Are Also Killed by the Mass Black Incarceration Regime
03 Jan 2019
The WSWS site has done a disservice to Marxism and to the Black Lives Matter movement with its ideologically driven study of police killings in the U.S., focusing on dead white people. “All U.S. cops function in a system that has been purposely organized to contain, control and terrorize…
Patrick Bond
South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
09 Jan 2019
The old guard of South Africa’s ruling party put on new clothes last year, and a new party of the working class finally made its debut.
Teodrose Fikre
The Diversity Hustle
09 Jan 2019
A merry-go-round that has different colors and genders of jackasses and elephants is pure deception. “Putting new mannequins in window displays and keeping policies intact does everything to perpetuate fraudulence and does nothing to fix the underlying problems.”
Stansfield Smith
Is Russia Imperialist?
09 Jan 2019
Let’s examine Russia’s actual role and status in the world, to determine if Moscow is really the seat of an imperial state. “Russia plays very little part in the quintessential imperialist activity: the export of capital to the periphery and the extraction of profit from developing countries’ labor…
Ellen Brown
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
09 Jan 2019
A universal income program can help correct the debt bubble problem without fear of “overheating” the economy. “It could actually be funded year after year without driving up taxes or prices.”
R. Divya Nair
The Influence Of Gandhian Socialism on Du Bois and King
09 Jan 2019
Two great icons of 20th century Black struggle found a valuable resource in Gandhi and his movement for national liberation. “Du Bois recognized that Gandhi’s greatest gift was his devotion to the study and resolution of the great social evils of poverty, violence, and colonial oppression.”