| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ocasio-Cortez, Socialism, War and Austerity
10 Jan 2019
It’s good that there are now plenty of young people that like the idea of socialism. But if they don’t really know what socialism is, they also don’t know what capitalists will do to resist it. “The AOC ‘socialists’ have no idea what kind of capitalist enemy they are up against.”
Whitney Webb
How a NeoCon-Backed "Fact Checker" Plans to Wage War on Independent Media
16 Jan 2019
As Newsguard’s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site’s ranking systems on any technological device sold in the US. “Newsguard’s plan is a threat to any news site that regularly publishes information that rubs any of Newsguard’s investors,…
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Uniting for a Green New Deal
16 Jan 2019
A real Green New Deal requires pushing issues Democrats don’t want to discuss, such as nationalization of industries, more democracy, and cuts to the military. “We need a broad Green New Deal that changes the system so there is greater public ownership and democratization of the economy.” Support…
Jeff Mackler
Trump’s Syria Exit Tweet Provokes Washington Panic
16 Jan 2019
Donald Trump’s nightly tweets have shown that US presidents really don’t make fundamental policy, which is the domain of the corporate ruling class elite. “There are zero forces in Syria today that have any desire or interest in fighting for the U.S. imperial behemoth.”
Norman Richmond aka Jalali
Another Look At Martin Luther King Jr.
16 Jan 2019
Dr King was a radical, a democratic socialist who saw economic transformation and social justice as inseparable. “King never claimed to be a Marxist but had read some Marx and was fiercely anti-capitalist.” “I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than…
Netfa Freeman
John Bolton Says He Wants to Protect Africa from “Predatory” Chinese Behavior, But What About Washington’s?
16 Jan 2019
Chinese investment may come with strings attached, but Africa deserves an alternative to U.S.-led neoliberalism and militarization. “Bolton cares little about predation -- he just doesn’t want other predators to compete with.”
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Corporate and Banking Interests Profit from Desecration of Black Maryland Graveyard
16 Jan 2019
Truth rises from the graves of Black ancestors in a wealthy Maryland county. “Moses cemetery was desecrated to make room for a parking lot.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kerry Chance’s “Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands”
16 Jan 2019
Repression of the poor in South Africa has resulted in the criminalization of the very forms of struggle that made the democratic transition possible. “In South Africa, ‘slum’ and state yet again have been set against one another.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Harri Englund’s’ “Gogo Breeze”
16 Jan 2019
In rural Zambia, an elder named Gogo Breeze investigates his listeners’ grievances and renders public service at a small privately-owned radio station. “A local radio personality may enjoy much more respect than activists, and the challenge is to understand why that may be so.”
Teodrose Fikre
Evoking Muckrakers: Hannah Giorgis’s Devastating Critique of Senator Kamala Harris
16 Jan 2019
Kamala Harris’s memoir reads nothing like her actual record of locking up the poor and giving impunity to the rich. “Harris has a double standard when it comes to dispensing justice—an iron fist for the proletariat and velvet gloves for the affluent.”