| Black Agenda Report

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
06 Feb 2019
This week the reader discussion was on the limits of electoral democracy in the United States and the accommodation of diversity in American imperialism.
Eric Blanc
Cory Booker Hates Public Schools
06 Feb 2019
Cory Booker rose to prominence as a fanatical backer of school privatization, yet poses as a friend of public education and teachers. “Booker has openly praised Republican leader Betsy DeVos’s organization American Federation for Children.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
On Venezuela and NATO, the Democratic Party is the “Assistance” Not the “Resistance” to Empire
06 Feb 2019
Black, working and poor people can expect no relief from Democrats, who will continue to divert the nation’s resources to foreign wars and coups. “Only Tulsi Gabbard, Bernie Sanders, and Ilhan Omar have voiced any kind of opposition to the Trump Administration’s coup against Venezuela from the…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
“How I Lost by Hillary Clinton,” a Book Review
06 Feb 2019
Rich and manipulative people like Hillary Clinton and her DNC cohorts were defeated by their own emails. “You can expect her to run for president once again.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Democrats are the McCarthyites
06 Feb 2019
The unceasing torrent of Russiagate lies turns Democrats into war hawks and causes liberals to spout nonsense that was once consigned to the fringe right wing. It’s worse than the old McCarthyism. “Liberals who might once have opposed a hot war would now be the first to support it.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Wall of Lies
07 Feb 2019
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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline
07 Feb 2019
Bernie Sanders’ anticipated second run for the presidency is the 6-ton elephant in the Democratic boardroom. But the rich owners of the Party would rather lose to Trump again than win with Sanders “Sanders' outstanding primary showing represented the strongest electoral challenge to austerity…
Greg Palast
In Venezuela, White Supremacy Is a Key Driver of the Coup
13 Feb 2019
The coup is, at it heart, a furious backlash of whiter and wealthier Venezuelans against the mixed race and Black majority. “The US press does not recognize its own racial bias.” On January 23, right after a phone call from Donald Trump, Juan Guaidó, former speaker of Venezuela's National Assembly…
Nicolás Maduro
An Open Letter to the People of the United States
13 Feb 2019
We demand the cessation of the aggression that seeks to suffocate our economy and socially suffocate our people. “Your national representatives of Washington want to bring to their borders the same hatred that they planted in Vietnam.”
Ellen Brown
The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy
13 Feb 2019
Venezuela’s hyper-inflation is caused by US economic warfare, not government spending on social needs. “Venezuelan hyperinflation and ‘QE for the People’ are completely different animals.”