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About Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley’s Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere.
  • Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel

    Freedom Rider: Standing with the Cuban people

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider on July 23, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider)  |

    The current Black-centered Cuban protest operation is very well orchestrated and if Black people in this country are not careful, they will end up amplifying the dictates of U.S. imperialism.

  • Freedom Rider: The Terrible Origins of July 4th

    Freedom Rider: The terrible origins of July 4th

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider on July 1, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider)  |

    The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.

  • Freedom Rider: The Truth About Defunding Police

    Freedom Rider: The truth about defunding police

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 9, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    “Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions address human needs. One year ago, thousands of people engaged in protest in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer. A persistent protest […]

  • Freedom Rider: Biden Breaks His Promises

    Freedom Rider: Biden breaks his promises

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 27, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office.

  • Freedom Rider: The Palestine Litmus Test

    Freedom Rider: The Palestine Litmus test

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 19, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    President Joe Biden continues to proclaim endless support of apartheid Israel, but millions have decided that defense of Palestinian rights and lives is the only civilized response to barbaric aggression.

  • Democratic Representative-elect Ilhan Omar (C) of Minnesota, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, poses in the front row with other incoming newly elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 14, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC199D14A510

    Freedom Rider: Progressives capitulate to Biden

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider on May 6, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider)  |

    There can be no more excuses made for Democratic “progressives,” who steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right.

  • Freedom Rider: Gun Violence Starts at the Top

    Freedom Rider: Gun violence starts at the top

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 21, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    If the state reserves the right to commit mass murder no one should be surprised that the people follow suit.

  • Freedom Rider: Establishment Role in Anti-Asian Bigotry

    Freedom Rider: Establishment role in anti-Asian bigotry

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 24, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Joe Biden is no better than Trump in advocating de facto white supremacy with his foreign policy, and corporate media fan the flames of anti-Chinese racism.

  • Freedom Rider: Forced Labor in the U.S.

    Freedom Rider: Forced labor in the U.S.

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider on February 10, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider)  |

    Forced labor of Uyghurs in China is questionable, but there is absolute proof that incarcerated people in this country are forced to work for little or no pay.

  • Freedom Rider: Censorship in the Biden Era

    Freedom Rider: Censorship in the Biden era

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 25, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The corporate media have joined the incoming administration in deciding what we can and cannot see and hear.

  • Freedom Rider: Breonna Taylor and Black Life

    Freedom Rider: Breonna Taylor and Black Life

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 30, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Reactions to the Breonna Taylor murder, settlement and verdict all have one thing in common: Black people’s inability to protect our lives.

  • Freedom Rider: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia

    Freedom Rider: The U.S. is a racist militia

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 2, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    U.S. cops are already racist and brutal, and any militia “infiltrators” would feel right at home.

  • Freedom Rider: “Feet to the Fire” and Other Lies

    Freedom Rider: “Feet to the Fire” and other lies

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 19, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    When the Democratic Party ends its charade of a primary process and spits out the person most closely aligned with neo-liberal policies, the gas lighting begins.

  • "You can't have capitalism without racism." Source: Peter James Hudson on “The African Origins of Racial Capitalism.”

    You can’t understand capitalism without race

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 18, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The centrality of race in the devilment of capitalism continues to be resisted by “the sort of hardline, orthodox folks who only look at class, alongside the sort of liberals and so-called racial multiculturals who have the misconception that race no longer matters,” said Charisse Burden-Stelly, professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College.

  • Freedom Rider: TikTok and the War on China

    Freedom Rider: TikTok and the War on China

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 12, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Every charge that Trump and his minions make against Chinese companies is true for US corporations, which have been spying on Americans and the rest of the world for decades.

  • Freedom Rider: Media Silent as Trump Declares Wars

    Freedom Rider: Media silent as Trump declares wars

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 22, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, Syria and Iran are criminal, but Joe Biden vows to be even worse.

  • Freedom Rider: The Police Defunding Con Game

    Freedom Rider: The police defunding con game

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 8, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Cutting police budgets without establishing public control over their behavior doesn’t solve the problem, and invites politicians to shuffle budget numbers around like a three-card monte swindle.

  • Freedom Rider: Democrats Move Right and Towards Defeat

    Freedom Rider: Democrats move right and towards defeat

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 24, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Besides not being Trump, the Democrats offer nothing, but think they can win with a candidate who has no constituency, charisma or any platform positions that would attract more voters.

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    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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