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

The U.S. Supported Anti-Black Forces in Libya
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
12 Dec 2017
🖨️ Print Article

It should have come as no surprise that the same “rebels” the US supported in its 2011 war against Libya are now selling Blacks into slavery at auction, said Robin Philpot, who published Maximillion Forte’s influential book Slouching Toward Sirte. Assassinated Libyan leader “Muammar Gaddafi made it very clear that Libya was committed to African unity” under his government. U.S.-backed “rebels” targeted Black Libyans for death and detention – and now, enslavement.

U.S. War Against Libya

More Stories


  • Clau O'Brien Moscoso
    Lawfare in Perú: Trial of Rupture
    12 Mar 2025
    The trial of former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, the victim of a 2022 lawfare-style coup, has begun. The legal process used against him is a sham covering up the human rights abuses…
  • Janvieve Williams Comrie
    Panama’s Outrage Over Deportations: A Reckoning with a Reality Long Ignored
    12 Mar 2025
    Trump administration interference in Panama has brought about a reckoning on migration and human rights throughout the region. These issues can no longer be ignored.
  • Dylan Sullivan , Jason Hickel
    Plundering Africa – Income Deflation and Unequal Ecological Exchange Under Structural Adjustment Programmes
    12 Mar 2025
    Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s…
  • The Mapping Project
    The Revolution Will Not Be Signaled
    12 Mar 2025
    The messaging app Signal is touted as being a safe harbor from state surveillance. However, its connections to large corporate entities make organizers more vulnerable than they may think.
  • Briahna Joy Gray
    Why Did MSNBC Cancel Joy Reid?
    12 Mar 2025
    Some speculated that racism explains the firing of the liberal anchor. But MSNBC doesn't have a problem with Black hosts. They have a problem with pro-Palestine ones.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us