| Black Agenda Report

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Iran and Endless War
19 Jun 2019
Americans are, indeed, exceptional – the most gullible public in the world, always ready to believe their leaders’ lies. “The increasing closeness between China, Russia and their central Asian partners is a reaction to U.S. threats and aggressions.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Ruling Class Will Not Tolerate the Sanders-Led Assault on Austerity
20 Jun 2019
The whole point of the austerity project is to disempower workers and concentrate wealth at the top. The rulers will kill to keep that dream alive. “The Democratic Party’s capture by leftish elements is unthinkable to the oligarchs.”
Celina della Croce
Why Venezuela Is the Vietnam of Our Time
26 Jun 2019
Hybrid warfare combines military force with “unconventional” warfare, such as covert campaigns to destabilize the economy of targeted nations. “If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the Bolivarian government, it will be a blow to people across the world.”
Rachel M. Cohen
We Have to Finance a Global Green New Deal – Or Face the Consequences
26 Jun 2019
How much money is the US and other rich countries willing to transfer to poor countries to reduce carbon emissions? “Developing countries are expected to contribute nearly 90 percent of emissions growth over the next two decades.”
Annie Waldman
How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement
26 Jun 2019
The huge nonprofit is backed by billionaire school privatizers with a sophisticated agenda. “Although only 7% of students go to charter schools, Teach For America sent almost 40% of its 6,736 teachers to them in 2018.”
Haim Salih
Dates and Bullets: Sudan in the Grip of the RSF Militia
26 Jun 2019
The Sudanese protest movement needs a focused strategy to resist the RSF's growing power. “The RSF are backed by both Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who want to ensure their continued participation in the catastrophic war in Yemen.” On a hot May evening, I was stuck at a traffic light in a…
Vaidya Gullapalli
Will Chicago Get a Memorial to Honor the Survivors of Police Torture?
26 Jun 2019
The memorial would be a stone monument with the names of those tortured by Burge and his officers and the dates they were tortured. “Use of the term ‘reparations’ was important to capture the racism at work and that the compensation being offered was for violence by the state.”
Brett Wilkins
A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
26 Jun 2019
There is no doubt that concentration camps are in operation on US soil once again. “The Union Army re-captured freed slaves throughout the South and pressed them into hard labor in disease-ridden ‘contraband camps.’” concentration camp (noun): a place in which large numbers of people,…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aaron Kamugisha’s “Beyond Coloniality”
26 Jun 2019
If current conditions continue, the Caribbean as we currently experience it will disappear by the middle of this century. “The Caribbean needs to find its way to a socialism tempered by all the lessons we have learnt over the last generation.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth Pérez’s “Religion in the Kitchen”
26 Jun 2019
Black gods matter, because Black lives matter. “Few Black and Latinx students have ever been exposed to knowledge about their ancestors’ religious practices prior to the transatlantic slave trade and colonization.”