| Black Agenda Report

Wilmer J. Leon III
COVID-19 and America - The Fire This Time
06 May 2020
It is immoral if not criminal for the US to increase sanctions through its “maximum pressure campaigns” against Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and Palestine.
Igor Derysh
Over 70 Percent of Jobless Americans Didn’t Receive March Unemployment Benefits
06 May 2020
The problem is even worse in Southeastern states like Florida, where fewer than 8% of applicants received benefits.
Black Oakland Leaders and Allies
Black Oakland Demands in Light of COVID-19 and Rates of Black Death
29 Apr 2020
Unless Black people are healthy and safe then no community is healthy and safe.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pentagon Brass Can Kiss My Ass
22 Apr 2020
The coronavirus-stricken crew of the USS Roosevelt would be more useful making N-95 masks, building housing for people living on the streets, and tilling community gardens to prepare for supply cha
Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu, and Du Xiaojun
Truth and Propaganda About Coronavirus
22 Apr 2020
It is unclear if China could have done anything different as it faced an unknown virus.
Pierre Labossiere
Resisting Covid-19 in Haiti
22 Apr 2020
There are only around 124 intensive care unit beds and less than 100 ventilators for a population of about 11 million.
Don Fitz
Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19
22 Apr 2020
Before Cuba experienced its first COVID-!9 case it had already updated a plan to prevent and control the disease.
Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Mike Davis On Pandemics, Super-capitalism and the Struggles of Tomorrow
22 Apr 2020
Capitalist globalization means accepting a permanent triage of humanity and dooming part of the human race to eventual extinction.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The USS COVID-19, from Guam to Puget Sound
15 Apr 2020
While the world confronts a real-life deadly epidemic, the Covid-afflicted US Navy struggles to maintain the farce of keeping the planet safe from fictitious threats.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
…NOW’S THE TIME…
15 Apr 2020
coronavirus is coming across treacherous food deserts—their Red Lined decades of diabetes— over hills of hypertension; steep mountains of medical