| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
A Not So Happy New Year: Tears Flow from the War Hawks Over the Political Crisis of US imperialism
09 Jan 2019
The US war machine can no longer provide its corporate masters the neo-colonial stability they need to reap long-term gain from the imperial order. “The political crisis of U.S. imperialism is becoming more difficult to manage.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Phony Resistance Can’t Beat Trump
09 Jan 2019
At the midway point of the Trump presidency the Democrats have nothing to show in the way of meaningful resistance. “The Democrats are boxed in by their own past misdeeds and now present nothing but acquiescence to right wing tropes.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
“Evacuate the Coffee”: A White Supremacist Classic
09 Jan 2019
US troops have been dispatched to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the results of presidential balloting are still unknown. “Congolese are on edge, fearing fraudulent presidential election results and state violence to suppress mass protest.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
09 Jan 2019
This week readers continued to engage with the role of Kwanzaa, responded to arguments about race and class in the criminal justice system, and the possibilities of political party boycotts.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
2 Poems -- 7 Year Olds Dying In Third Reich ‘Detention’, and Waiting on Capitalist Hill
10 Jan 2019
“Papi, are we there— are we almost there?” Wide-eyed incantation of a child, three feet plus/ 60 pounds. Exodus leaving the lowland six days before birthday 7… “Papi, are we there— are we almost there?” Beaming birthday celebrant on the bus munching an un- crushed pink frosted cookie from Papi’s…
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…