| Black Agenda Report

Ellen Brown
The Secret to Funding a Green New Deal
20 Mar 2019
Millions of jobs can be created in a national energy transformation without blowing up the deficit. “Franklin Roosevelt paid for his New Deal through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Pacifica Is a Grassroots Radio Lifeline: Let’s Keep It Together
20 Mar 2019
In many urban areas, Pacifica and its affiliates offer the only counter to the Republican/Democratic duopoly narratives. “Flashpoints and Hard Knock Radio challenge the Democrats’ commitment to war, austerity, and globalization.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
How the U.S. Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries: A Review
20 Mar 2019
Cynthia McKinney and her co-writers have produced an important literary tool for anti-imperial agitation and education. “Trump’s use of ‘sh*thole’ offered an opportunity to explain the realities of U.S. foreign policy to the people.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Permanence of White Supremacy
20 Mar 2019
Zionism, manifest destiny, wars on terror, humanitarian interventions, and the Monroe and other doctrines always boil down to a license to kill. “Pointing fingers at the Australian killer and others of his ilk lets too many people off the hook of responsibility.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
toe tag trio: coup combo
20 Mar 2019
A right wing hawk flies humanitarian aid in…Then sits, hen-like,’til it hatches Bombs… and packs of hungry dogs ripping rotting flesh from headless cadavers. As scents of sulfur and fresh death waft in whitewashed songs. “It’s The Same Old Song,” old chestnut Terror, torture, hunger, misery:…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Reparations Means Global Social Transformation
21 Mar 2019
Reparations is not a token gesture of concern, apology or even solidarity; it seeks justice and redress of wrongs through the transformation of a people’s condition. “An all-Black reparations debate is overdue.”
Bryan K. Bullock
A True Defense of Smiley and West
27 Mar 2019
Two men with track records of advocacy and activism were kicked to the curb in favor of a man with practically no history of Black advocacy. “The cult of Obama would brook no dissenters.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Get Tulsi Gabbard on the Debate Stage
27 Mar 2019
Tulsi Gabbard is the only candidate in the race running on a platform of peace. “Gabbard has called her stance on peace the ‘peace dividend.’”
Matthew Cole, Kim Ives
U.S. Mercenaries Arrested in Haiti Were Part of a Half-Baked Scheme to Move $80 Million For Embattled President
27 Mar 2019
The mercs’ aborted mission appears to have been part of a power play between the president and prime minister. “It is unclear what Moïse intended to do with the money once he gained control of it.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Margaret Stevens’s “Red International and Black Caribbean”
27 Mar 2019
Some of the best leaders of black working class people were communist or worked alongside communists. “Communist history is foundational to black radicalism in the 20th century.”