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

The Lies of American Exceptionalism
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
14 Aug 2018
🖨️ Print Article

Corporate media claim the economy is “booming” even though “we still don’t have as many jobs as existed” before the 2008 crash, said BAR contributor Danny Haiphong, one of the authors of the upcoming book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: The Fake News of Wall Street, White Supremacy and the U.S War Machine. Haiphong’s co-author is Roberto Sirvent, editor of the Black Agenda Report Book Forum.

U.S. Imperialism

Related Podcasts

Black Agenda Radio
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio March 22, 2024
22 March 2024
This week we hear about right wing forces in San Francisco who worked with the Black democratic mayor to criminalize poverty in a classic case of B
Zone of Peace Campaign Press Conference
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Zone of Peace Campaign Press Conference
07 April 2023
The Black Alliance for Peace Zone of Peace campaign launch event took place in Washingt
U.S. Presidents Kill for Empire
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Presidents Kill for Empire
17 December 2018
US presidents may seem different from one another, in terms of rhetoric, “but they all have in common being committed to empire,” said

More Stories


  • Kali Akuno on the Fabrication Divide
    Kali Akuno , Gyasi Williams
    Up Against the Fabrication Divide
    10 Jan 2018
    The Third Digital Revolution[1], a revolution in cyber-physical integration and personal fabrication, is changing the world, and changing humanity, culturally an
  • Freedom Rider: Trump Love Endures
    Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Trump Love Endures
    10 Jan 2018
    The recently published book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is an inside account of the Donald Trump campaign and presidency.
  • Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    Donkey In A Hole: Don't Expect Democrats To Change Much in 2018
    10 Jan 2018
    The 2018 midterm elections are fast approaching.
  • Anne Garrison speaks to Jean-Claude Maswana
    Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
    Is Anyone On the Side of the Congolese Now? Ann Garrison speaks to Jean-Claude Maswana
    10 Jan 2018
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the heart of Black Africa.
  • BlackAgenda Radio, Week of January 9, 2018
    Nellie Bailiey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 9, 2018
    10 Jan 2018
    Omail Yeshitela reminds us to hold up our political prisoners. Nabil Hasseim explains how activists must adjest to the censored and circumscribed net.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us