Executive Editor Black Agenda Report; co-founder, America's Black Forum (TV); former White House, Capital Hill, State Department correspondent;The Big Lie
Russiagate is a Ruling Class Diversion
by Glen Ford
Ruling class media work hard to keep us entertained, shocked and diverted from capitalism’s inability to offer anything but widening wars and deepening austerity.
Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives
by Glen Ford
Alicia Garza and her crew conducted what they claim is the biggest survey of Black political opinion ever -- but failed to ask a single question about foreign policy.
Freedom Rider: How to Protest Trump
by Margaret Kimberley
If the British really oppose Trump’s policies they should dump their own government, which backs Washington to the hilt – and then they should apologize to the world for Britain’s crimes.
The Bizarre Facebook Path to Corporate Fascism
by Glen Ford
“Russians” are indicted for lechoing rhetoric and memes of U.S. political struggles, while the people who are being mimicked are labeled co-conspirators in a foreign-based “plot.”
Black Agenda Radio: U.S.-Backed Islamic Jihadists Hide Behind “White Helmets”
The “White Helmets” have “committed a huge number of crimes against the Syrian people,” said Vanessa Beeley who, along with Eva Bartlett, exposed the fake humanitarians.
Book Review: Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day
by Carl Davidson
Flint Taylor’s new book reveals Chicago as a racist police state where the entire criminal justice system was complicit in torture.
On class in Black politics.
By Cedric Johnson & This Is Hell
Johnson examines class in Black political life limits of electoralism and solely race-driven analyses vs the power of a Marxist materialist lens in understanding power dynamics iof capitalism
Women’s March on the Pentagon? An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
Leftish groups march on DC 6 figures strong several times a year. Cindy Sheehan wonders why have none marched on the Pentagon since the 1960s?
Joe Biden Personifies a New “End of History,” This time for U.S. Imperial Rule
by Danny Haiphong
Biden’s open support of corporate oligarchy and disdain for Black America won him the hearts and minds of the ruling class.
Freedom Rider: U.S. Escalates Syrian War by Margaret Kimberley – Having failed in its war of regime change in Syria, the U.S. seizes the nation’s oil fields and slaughters Syrian soldiers, confident that the U.S. public doesn’t give a damn.
Glen Ford on Chris Hedges On Contact: The Con of Diversity
Diversity is little more than black faces in high places, not the goal of radical transformation that puts power in the hands of ordinary people.
The Bankers’ “Power Revolution” -- How the Government Got Shackled by Debt
by Ellen Brown
Enshrined by law and custom, bondholder debt repaid by taxpayers is a naked transfer of wealth from the poor and workers to the super-rich.
Shaun King is “All In” with the FBI and CIA
by Glen Ford
Media spokesnegro Shaun King stands shoulder-to-shoulder with COINTELPRO assassins, CIA liars, grand jury-manipulating prosecutors and anybody else that smears Trump and Putin.
When the Resistance is Really the Assistance
By Bruce Dixon
Dems voted 2 to 1 for the Pentagon budget, a space force, and drone bases covering most of Africa, including 36 of 64 in the Progressive Caucus and all but 8 of the Black Caucus.
Joe Biden Wants Us to Forget His Past. We Won't
by Adolph Reed & Cornel West
Joe Biden is the purest example of the corporate Democrats that turned the party decisively towards war, austerity and race-baiting in a previous elections.
Freedom Rider: Russiagate and Black Misleadership
by Margaret Kimberley
The
#bogusresistance
beats its bipartisan chest and screaming at Moscow instead of giving people the right to health care and jobs and housing.
Freedom Rider: Blacks Need To Stop Calling the Enemy “We” and “Us”
by Margaret Kimberley
RussiaGate has made Blacks lose their minds? Since when have the FBI, the CIA and European governments been friends of Black people anywhere on the planet?
Freedom Rider: The United States Destroys Venezuela’s Economy
by Margaret Kimberley
The US is already waging economic war against Venezuela, but If Trump were to make good on threats to take military action, how many people would be in the streets?
Glen Ford on Chris Hedges On Contact: The Con of Diversity
Diversity is little more than black faces in high places, not the goal of radical transformation that puts power in the hands of ordinary people.
Democratic Party Obsession with Capitalism and Militarism Will Grow Worse by 2020
by Danny Haiphong
The
#DemocraticParty
is a political trap designed to capture and neutralize the most progressive constituency in the United States: Black America. Seems to be working...
Freedom Rider: Russiagate Covers Up Black Vote Theft
byMargaret Kimberley
The Republicans stole the 2016 election but the same Democrats that failed to protect Black voting rights want to blame their defeat on Russia.
The Lies of American Exceptionalism
Danny Haiphong… the stories the US elite tell about can’t cover up the rot. The economic news is fake economics, the history is fake history, only names, faces, their color and gender change
Black Agenda Radio
Capitalism Incompatible With Democracy
Some Democrats declare themselves socialists but never tell us what that means. Howie Hawkins Green candidate for NY gov says socialism is democratic control of the economy.
The Imperial Racist Saga Comes Home, Where It Began
by Glen Ford
What makes US progressives think that the Lords of Capital will be more tolerant of austerity-busting ‘socialists’ here at home than they are with Venezuela?
Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris Destroyed Black Lives
by Margaret Kimberley
Kamala Harris has a long and ugly track record as a vicious San Francisco DA & and CA state attorney general, shoveling people by the thousand into the US prison gulag.
The zionist project of maintaining an apartheid state near a large fraction of the planet's most easily accessible oil is essential to the maintenance of global empire.
Freedom Rider: British Collusion and Criminality
by Margaret Kimberley
Deep state collusion with the UK goes back generations, recently includes justifying war in Iraq, manufacturing a climate of pervasive hostility toward Russia.
Letter to Kaepernick: Where Do You Go from Here?
- Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Long before the Nike deal it was clear that Kaepernick’s politics were being subsumed by other forces pushing a weak soup of “diversity” and “free speech.”
Mumia Supporters Gear Up for Hearing
Dr. Johanna Fernandez outlines how the conviction of
#politicalprisoner
Mumia Abu Jama is unraveling, and supporters demanding his release will gather in Philly Aug 30.
Assange Is Not a Journalist (If Journalists Are Ass-Kissing Propagandists for the Ruling Class)
-by Ann Garrison
Saying Assange not a journalist is like saying Darwin wasn’t a biologist, Einstein wasn’t a physicist and LeBron James can’t play basketball.
On Dan Kovalik’s “The Plot to Scapegoat Russia" and "The Plot to Attack Iran”
by BAR Book Forum Editor Roberto Sirvent
Americans are the most uninformed, misinformed and ideologized people on the planet.
Freedom Rider: Facebook and the Farrakhan Distraction
-Margaret Kimberley
In banning the only living person who can summon a million Black people to a meeting, Facebook is doing the bidding of the real fascists in the deep imperial state.
Regime Change Coming Home?
By Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Limbo! How low can we go—
Barr is set so low in its
swamp draining elephantine donkey dung...
Dozens Condemned by Media as ‘Gang Members’ Not Actually Gang Members, Study Confirms
by Adam Johnson
Corporate media are racist megaphones for the mass Black incarceration state, criminalizing whole communities like electronic lynch mobs.
Black People Don’t Need Bill Cosby’s Kind of “Race Man”
by Glen Ford
Cosby represents a Black American political right wing whose views of the Black poor are just as crude and dehumanizing as their white counterparts.
The Black Panthers Still in Prison After 46 years, Will They Ever Be Set free?
by Ed Pilkington
“Every two years the Band-Aid gets ripped off your heart.”
It’s Black August again, when we should remember our political prisoners.
High Crimes and Misdemeanors – Not by Trump but Obama and Democrats
by Ajamu Baraka
Democrats and liberals have aligned with the FBI, the CIA and elements of the ruling class to provoke war with Russia, and possibly China, in order to bring down Trump.