| Black Agenda Report

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kia Caldwell’s “Health Equity in Brazil”
13 Feb 2019
Policies and laws promoting equity and equality of any type are under severe attack now in Brazil. “Bolsonaro’s political ascendance has been very troubling.”
Lee Fang
Kamala Harris First Won Office As ‘Law and Order’ Candidate
13 Feb 2019
“Harris’s first campaign reflected familiar tactics in an era of booming mass incarceration.” “Harris attacked Hallinan as too weak and ineffective to keep communities safe from dangerous criminals.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
In the Crosshairs of the Washington Mafia: Venezuela and Julian Assange
13 Feb 2019
The DC Exceptional Mob is running amok, corrupting whole professions (journalism) and overthrowing sovereign nations (Venezuela). “The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Organization for Economic Cooperation are all part of the mob.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Will Shaun King Speak Up for Independent Media? Probably Not
13 Feb 2019
How can a guy that praises the CIA and the FBI claim to be following in the footsteps of Frederick Douglass? “King supports Corey Booker, a virtual Black Republican in the Democratic War Party.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Confronting the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
13 Feb 2019
Democrats may hate Trump, but they join in white supremacist solidarity with his aggression against the mostly non-white people of Venezeula. “It is accepted as normal that the U.S. and Europe have the right and, indeed, the responsibility to police the world.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Voters Used to Destroy Bernie Sanders
13 Feb 2019
The ever-rightward moving Democrats are using their most reliable constituency to thwart Sanders. “Sanders’ statements are carefully dissected and any words or phrases that might trigger black angst are amplified or even made up out of whole cloth.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
If all options are on the table…
13 Feb 2019
If “all options are on the table” Let’s hear filters usurping skull and crossbones drinking water 400 times before it flows from a single faucet If “all options are on the table” Let’s hear boots on the ground and on ladders, meddling smoggy skies with windmills and solar panels
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All, But Corporate Media Pretend Not to Notice
14 Feb 2019
When the top Democrat secretly plots to subvert a proposal supported by the vast majority of her party, that’s supposed to be news -- unless the corporate media decide otherwise. “The plutocrat-owned press is protecting Pelosi from the extreme embarrassment.”
Behind the News with Doug Henwood
Los Angeles Teachers Use the Old Successful Organizing Methods
14 Feb 2019
Like the 2006 strike of 30,000 NYC transit workers, and the 2012 strike of 30,000 Chicago teachers, the 2019 Los Angeles teacher strike made the lives of tens and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people better. A nurse and librarian in every school, enforceable class size caps, some regulation on…
Patrick Walker
Venezuelan Coup Democrats Vomit on Green New Deal
20 Feb 2019
For our bought-off Republican and Democrat warmongers, humanity’s climate crisis changes nothing and US regime change remains the order of the day. “By not denouncing our imperialist coup in Venezuela, both Sunrise and the PPC are failing miserably in ‘radicalizing the mainstream.’”