| Black Agenda Report

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.”
A Discussion with Nick Brana
The Left Must Finally Break With the Democrats
13 Feb 2019
It is vitally important to create a mass-based and corporate-free party of working people. “The Democratic Party is so conservative that Pelosi is now left of center.”
Adom Getachew
When Jamaica Led the Postcolonial Fight Against Exploitation
13 Feb 2019
In the 1970s, a bloc of Third world states forced the UN to take seriously the unequal distribution of global wealth. “The New International Economic Order was conceived as the international corollary to the domestic projects of socialism.” This essay appears in Evil Empire and is adapted from…
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
13 Feb 2019
This week readers were eager to discuss anti-Russian war hysteria and the role of privatization in public education. Strong responses came for “Freedom Rider: Democrats Are the McCarthyites” and “Cory Booker Hates Public Schools.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kristian Williams’s “Our Enemies in Blue”
13 Feb 2019
Throughout their history the police have reliably served the interests of white supremacy. “While we may not be able to fix policing, it might be possible to abolish it.”