Defending A Non-Existent International Law
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. The Hague Group’s goal is to “. . . take coordinated legal and diplomatic measures against Israel’s violations of international law.” But international law was…
US Determination To Achieve Full Spectrum Dominance Not In Decline
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. The trope of the United States being in a state of decline is a common one, but it should not be accepted without scrutiny. The…
Twentieth Century Red Scares In The United States
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD, Black Agenda Report The NSPM-7 and the report on Cuba represent a new red scare era. Red Scares are a recurring feature of the U.S. political tradition…
The Ultimate Betrayal Of Alex Saab
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. And the Fate of Nicolás Maduro and the Venezuelan People. The United States got its hands on Alex Saab a second time in order to…
W.E.B. Du Bois, the Cold War and the Forgotten Politics of Black Internationalism
Joshua Scheer Gerald Horne argues that understanding Du Bois’s radical internationalism is essential to understanding the political crisis—and ideological confusion—of our own time. W.E.B. Du Bois did not suddenly become…
The Path Black To Socialism: Dispatches From The Socialism Conference
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Many in the U.S. “Left” are actually liberal elements that pull socialism toward the Democratic Party. Black organizers must build independent power. “With all…
A People(s)-Centered Human Rights Critique Of ‘An Open Letter To Iran’s Political Prisoners’
Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism. Which obscures the fact that…
Guardian Letter: The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective Responds
The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, Black Agenda Report. The Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective (AISC) strongly condemns “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’,” the open letter published on…
Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner Meeting Reveals Ugly Truths About U.S. Politics
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist If the Democratic Party prevails in the midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries will become the Speaker of the House of Representatives. But his…
White Supremacy And Climate Change: A Sinister Symbiosis
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations. And as a belief…
The Fight For Sovereignty In The Shadow Of A Data Center
Wolfgang Bronner, Black Agenda Report. North Nashville’s Reckoning. Fisk University, an HBCU, is presenting a $400 million A.I. data center as progress for the North Nashville community. In truth, it…
Somalia: On The Front Lines With Somaliland
Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. During the last week of July, I traveled to the front lines of Somalia’s unresolved border conflict with Somaliland. The Somali secessionist state is now…
Venezuela, Memory, And The Long Arc Of US Imperialism
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state. The U.S. subordination of the Venezuelan state did…
Neoliberalism To Trumpism: The Re-Normalization Of White Supremacy As State Ideology
Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. The crisis of late-stage capitalism has stripped away the liberal disguise. And revealed white supremacy as the official ideology of the U.S. state. To understand…
Building Black Self-Determination And Ending The Politics Of Fear
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black…