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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio August 4, 2023
04 Aug 2023
In this week’s segment we focus on two states, Venezuela and Eritrea, while we continue paying tribute to the late Glen Ford, co-founder and the driving force behind Black Agenda Report.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Belief in American Exceptionalism is a Bipartisan Affair
04 Aug 2023
Glen Ford analyzed a 2019 Democratic Party presidential debate and points out that support for U.S. aggression towards Venezuela and other nations is a bipartisan project.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: Somebody Blew Up America, Amiri Baraka, 2001
05 Jul 2023
A poem from the late Amiri Baraka questions the myths of U.S. exceptionalism that engulfed the nation after 9/11 attacks, contextualizing them with a history of the West’s centuries-long violent…
Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III
Reagan’s “Shining City on a Hill” Was Really a Mirage
26 Jan 2022
It is best to be wary when American politicians create expressions like "shining city on a hill." One of Reagan's signature phrases has been reused time and again by republicans and democrats a
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Enes Kanter’s Name Change and the Pathology of American Exceptionalism
07 Dec 2021
NBA star Enes Kanter embodies the dangers of American exceptionalism rhetoric. Support for oppression around the world is always the end result of this pernicious belief system.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
American Exceptionalism Won’t Save the U.S. Empire from Itself, or Stop China’s Rise
04 Nov 2020
China’s rise reflects a bourgeoning global movement away from U.S. imperialism and toward self-determination.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
NYT “1619 Project” More Pro-American Exceptionalism Than Anti-Slavery
14 Oct 2019
The New York Times’ “1619 Project” essays on the arrival of African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia “is not a critique of American exceptionalism – it is an attempt to told slavery into Amer
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
An Imperial Mindset Protects the Real Enemy of the People: U.S. Militarism
25 Sep 2019
The so-called left’s regurgitation of imperial talking points on Venezuela and Mugabe assists the billionaire ruling elite’s efforts to destroy any challenge to the rule of profit.
Schattenblick
Stripping Uncle Sam of His Protective Lies and Taboos
21 Aug 2019
Danny Haiphong and Roberto Sirvent analyze the "dual fantasy" that has ideologically upheld white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, and the American war machine.
Paul Street
Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
21 Aug 2019
Donald Trump is indeed a neofascist, but the US was built on a mass murderous white supremacism that, until recently, was unapologetically genocidal.