| Black Agenda Report

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Should UN Peacekeepers Leave the Democratic Republic of Congo?
11 Dec 2019
There was no peace to keep in the Kivu and Ituri provinces when the UN force arrived nearly 20 years ago, and there’s been none since. “Since 1996, the history of these provinces has been that of perpetual Rwandan and Ugandan invasion, occupation, and resource plunder.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Capitalist Crisis Has Made the U.S. a Pariah State
11 Dec 2019
U.S. imperialism has nothing left to offer humanity but ecological destruction, endless war, and a decline in living standards domestically and globally. “There would be no endless wars for profit without the enslavement of Africans.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Abolish the Police
11 Dec 2019
Trump’s attorney general threatened to withdraw police “protection” from Black communities – but, of course, no such thing exists. “The cops they do not deserve respect or support.”
Prince Kapone
The Birth of a Nation: Race and Power in Amerika
11 Dec 2019
White supremacy is just as much a social reality as it is an ideology. “What is essential is that the relationship of power between whites and non-whites be changed.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Issue-Less Impeachment: The Corporate Democrats Stand for Nothing, So They Impeach for Nothing
12 Dec 2019
The corporate Democrats are effectively exonerating themselves and their Republican brethren of the full spectrum of lawlessness that is everyday politics in the belly of the racist, imperial beast. “The Democrats have used the vile, childishly compulsive and overtly racist Trump as a straw man…
WPAN
Africa Caribbean Pacific Group Seeks Action on Papua Rights Abuses
18 Dec 2019
The brutally oppressed people of West Papua continue to mount protests despite severe repression by Indonesian occupiers. “Indonesia has previously warned Pacific Island countries not to interfere in issues relating to West Papua.” The 79 member states of the Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) group…
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Sudan Withdraws 10,000 Troops from Yemen
18 Dec 2019
The ongoing popular struggle in Sudan may have heightened the chances for peace in Yemen. “According to Houthi sources, more than 4,000 Sudanese soldiers have been killed in Yemen so far.” The remaining 5,000 Sudanese soldiers in Yemen are also likely to be withdrawn soon. The return of the…
Erica Caines
Human Rights Hypocrisy: Critical Analysis of Hong Kong Protests
18 Dec 2019
Why do corporate media love Hong Kong dissidents while neglecting protests in Haiti, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Honduras and Bolivia? “Hong Kong protestors engage in activities that in the U.S. would get them killed by the police or long prison sentences.”
Wayne Dooling
What an Audit of the British Empire's Deadly Toll in Southern Africa Would Reveal
18 Dec 2019
The colonial powers have never been called to account for the human cost of their centuries of global rampage. “It’s high time to examine the empire’s deadly toll.” In its 2019 election manifesto, the Labour Party pledged to conduct an “audit of the impact of Britain’s colonial legacy,” with…
Casey Cep
The Legacy of a Radical Black Newspaperman
18 Dec 2019
William Monroe Trotter insisted that protest and civil disobedience were the only effective remedies for racial discrimination. “Legions of working-class readers admired Trotter’s ‘unceasing warfare against injustice.’”