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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.
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.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Five Myths of American Exceptionalism Killing the Left Part 1.
17 Jul 2019
Adherence to American exceptionalism kills the left and then takes it to the Democratic Party-run graveyard for burial.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Celebrating the Release of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News-From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
17 Apr 2019
American Exceptionalism is bound to white supremacy and creates a broad national unity around the interests of the ruling class.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
American Exceptionalism is at the root of the Fake News Epidemic Attempting to Overthrow Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
03 Apr 2019
American exceptionalism is a white exceptionalism that portrays the U.S. as a society rooted in democracy rather than slavery, liberty rather than brutality and genocide.