Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire
  • omnibus

Scapegoating Russia for War and Profit
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
21 Nov 2017

The military-industrial complex depicts Russia as an implacable enemy of the U.S. “to justify our eternal war footing,” said Daniel Kovalik, professor of human rights at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Plot to Scapegoat Russia. “The Democrats are also pushing it to cover their tracks for what appeared to be an impossible loss to Donald Trump.”

Anti-Russia Hysteria

Related Podcasts

The Critical Hour
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
US Censorship and the End of Radio Sputnik
01 November 2024
Garland Nixon is a veteran journalist, with programs on YouTube and other p
 US Militarists Invent Enemies – and Russiagate -- for Dollars
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Militarists Invent Enemies – and Russiagate -- for Dollars
02 February 2021
Russiagate is a fiction concocted by Democrats and intelligence agencies explain Hillary Clinton’s defeat and fuel a New Cold War, said Ray
The Pentagon Adds Its Madness to "Fake News” Hysteria
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Pentagon Adds Its Madness to "Fake News” Hysteria
23 September 2019
The evil geniuses at DARPA claim to be building a defense against fake news – a sure sign that the Pentagon is actually creating fake news.

More Stories


  • Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    STATEMENT: Without Immediate Intervention, the Last Reporters in Gaza Will Die, Agence France-Presse/Société de Journalistes, July 21, 2025
    23 Jul 2025
    “Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts…but none of us remember seeing a colleague die of hunger.”
  • Becca Renk
    46 Years On, Nicaragua’s Youth Still Lead the Revolution
    23 Jul 2025
    Celebrating 46 years of revolution, Nicaragua demonstrates that it is possible to respect its heroes and also venerate its youth. Following years of cultivating leadership in its young people, the…
  • Abayomi Azikiwe
    Poverty and Declining Real Wages in America: Philadelphia Municipal Strike Highlights Worsening Plight of the Working Class
    23 Jul 2025
    An eight-day strike by municipal employees in Philadelphia disrupted the operations of one of the largest cities in the United States amid systematic attacks on the interests and status of working…
  • Horace Campbell
    The Fraudulent Peace Accord between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed in Washington DC, June 2025
    23 Jul 2025
    Campbell interrogates the recent DRC-Rwanda peace accord brokered in the US which he terms fraudulent; and poses the question: can the US and Qatar support peace in Africa amidst the militarization…
  • Caitlin Johnstone
    AOC Is a Genocidal Con Artist
    23 Jul 2025
    She’s actively stopping American politics from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us