| Black Agenda Report

by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The U.S. is a Political Prison, Kamala Harris is a Prison Guard
30 Jan 2019
Harris protects police unions, the courts, and the stakeholders of the mass incarceration state.” Grand narratives of exceptionalism cannot hide the fact that the US maintains the most repressive and exploitative system in human history.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump, Democrats, and International Fascists Attack Venezuela
30 Jan 2019
Trump’s attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government has been joined by fellow fascists around the world, including most of the Democratic Party. “Trump and Pompeo are behaving no differently than Obama and Clinton did in Libya.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Racist, Imperialist War on Venezuela
31 Jan 2019
Donald Trump is simply exercising an imperial mandate handed down to him by Obama, who put “humanitarian” lipstick on the white supremacist pig of American exceptionalism. “The darker peoples of the world understand clearly that what is at stake is the sovereignty of nations and people’s right to…
Chris Hedges
Goodbye to the Dollar
06 Feb 2019
It’s been a long time coming, but Donald Trump is speeding the dissolution of a US empire stitched together by an artificially exalted currency. “Trump has turned out, unwittingly, to be the empire’s most aggressive gravedigger.”
by Irvin Jim, NUMSA General Secretary
Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party Vows to Resist South African Government’s Privatization Move
06 Feb 2019
The new party insists that transition to renewable energy must be driven by the working class, not for capitalist profit. “In the name of ‘efficiency,’ thousands of workers will be retrenched so that the politically connected capitalist elite of the ANC can continue to enrich themselves.”
Glenn Greenwald
NBC News Smears Gabbard As A Kremlin Favorite
06 Feb 2019
In slandering anti-war Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, NBC News has broken every rule of journalism. “New Knowledge, was caught just six weeks ago engaging in a massive scam to create fictitious Russian troll accounts on Facebook and Twitter.”
Telesur
Tasers Claimed 49 Lives in 2018 Through Police Violence
06 Feb 2019
There have been a total of at least 1,081 deaths after the use of Tasers since the weapon began coming into widespread use in the early 2000s. “No government agency tracks how often Tasers are used or how many of those deployments prove fatal.” Taser death is a form of police violence that is…
Ben Norton
Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy
06 Feb 2019
Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted. “Guaidó plans to implement the neoliberal capitalist shock therapy that Washington has imposed on the region for decades.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Katie Grimes’s “Fugitive Saints”
06 Feb 2019
The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy. “Saints like Peter Claver promoted Africanized slavery.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Msia Clark’s “Hip-Hop in Africa”
06 Feb 2019
The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa. “The book connects hip-hop culture to politics around migration, social protest, and gender.”