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  • | Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving endures 20 years after he wrote it | MR Online

    The end of American Thanksgivings: A cause for Universal rejoicing

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 22, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Humanity cannot tolerate a 21st Century superpower, much of whose population perceives the world through the eyes of 17th Century land and flesh bandits.

  • | John Gast 1872 painting | MR Online

    The issue is not racism but the Pan European White Supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy!

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 15, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Racism should not be thought of as a matter of personal feeling or opinion, but of an exploitative system that is hundreds of years old.

  • | Father with body of his child killed by Israeli shelling in Khan Younis October 10 2023 Photo AFP | MR Online

    The demand for a ceasefire is necessary but not sufficient: The demand must be for decolonization and Palestinian self-determination

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 8, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The people of Gaza are in desperate need of a cease fire, but ultimately they need decolonization and self-determination.

  • | Black Scare Red Scare Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States | MR Online

    BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 1, 2023 by Roberto Sirvent (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Nov 08, 2023)

    This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is ‘Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.’

  • | Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Rwandan president Paul Kagame | MR Online

    If the U.S. told Rwanda and Uganda to get out of Congo, the War would end

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 4, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The European Union has sanctioned five members of different armed groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the spokesman for the M23 militia. It did not, however, sanction Rwanda, Uganda or the Rwandan and Ugandan presidents, despite decades of UN Group of Experts reports that the militias operating in the eastern DRC are largely Rwandan and Ugandan, though they typically claim to be Congolese.

  • | Israel Declares Most of Humanity Illegitimate and Irrelevant | MR Online

    Israel declares most of humanity illegitimate and irrelevant

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 1, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    After 120 members of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Israel demonstrated its increasing isolation by declaring the UN illegitimate and irrelevant.

  • | israel censorship | MR Online

    Pro-Israel war propaganda and censorship

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 25, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    “I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.” Michael B. Eisen 

  • | UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Barack Obama in 2014 three years after they and others destroyed Libya Photo PA Images | MR Online

    Why Barack Obama can’t shut up

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 20, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Barack Obama devastated millions of people all over the world and speaks of his actions as if they were committed by someone else. It is a masterful performance by a man committed to deception.

  • | Frances Beal | MR Online

    MANIFESTO: “Double Jeopardy: To be Black and Female”, Frances Beal, 1969

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 6, 2023 by Black Agenda Report Editors (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Sep 09, 2023)

    In attempting to analyze the situation of the black woman in America, one crashes abruptly into a solid wall of grave misconceptions, outright distortions of fact and defensive attitudes on the part of many. The system of capitalism (and its after birth… racism) under which we all live, has attempted by many devious ways and means to destroy the humanity of all people, and particularly the humanity of black people.

  • | Joe Biden during 2020 campaign Image courtesy CNN | MR Online

    The climate crisis will end when capitalism ends

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 30, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Humans have an infinite capacity for wishful thinking, but a revolutionary project is by definition a recognition that wishes are for fairy tales.

  • | RESPONSE TO Lawrence S Wittners Spinning Illusions The Anti American Left and the Ukraine War a new McCarthyism | MR Online

    RESPONSE TO: Lawrence S. Wittner’s “Spinning Illusions: The Anti-American Left and the Ukraine War” – a new McCarthyism

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 23, 2023 by Sara Flounders, Joe Lombardo (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Aug 30, 2023)

    Lawrence S. Wittner’s article, “Spinning Illusions: The Anti-American Left and the Ukraine War” is a throwback to McCarthyism, replacing analysis with name-calling.

  • | SPEECH Imperialism is the Arsonist of Our Forests and Savannas Thomas Sankara | MR Online

    SPEECH: ‘Imperialism is the arsonist of our forests and savannas’, Thomas Sankara, February 5, 1986

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 23, 2023 by Black Agenda Report Editors (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2023)

    Thomas Sankara, radical leader and martyr of Burkina Faso, understood that the problem of ecological destruction was rooted in capitalism and imperialism.

  • | Photo Eritrea Ministry of Information | MR Online

    Eritrea celebrates freedom

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 9, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Eritrea is an example of an independent and self-determining African state. Its people are rightly proud of their history.

  • | Venezuela and the Caribbean region | MR Online

    The U.S. plot to finalize the theft of Venezuela’s oil

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 2, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. has used its influence to steal another country’s oil revenues. Venezuela is in the crosshairs because it dares to be socialist in the hemisphere the U.S. claims as it’s “backyard.”

  • | Richard Nixon Black Capitalism campaign ad in 1968 | MR Online

    The history of affirmative action exposes its reactionary weaknesses

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 12, 2023 by Jacqueline Luqman (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jul 19, 2023)

    Affirmative action began as a reparations program but ends as a “diversity” project which barely benefits Black people.

  • | After commandeering a chest x ray unit in New York City the Young Lords named it after 19th century Afro Puerto Rican physician and abolitionist Ramón Emeterio Betances Image Credit Hiram Maristany X Ray Truck II 1970 | MR Online

    Mourning Mutulu Shakur and the Black radical tradition that modernized America

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 12, 2023 by John Jeter (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jul 14, 2023)

    The late Mutulu Shakur and other Black radicals were responsible for improving the lives of millions of people in the U.S. The counter revolution ended that period of progress, but the political crisis they created forced systemic change on a grand scale.

  • | Image Library of Congress | MR Online

    The Supreme Court and political corruption

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 5, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Supreme Court has always been a political institution. Racism, political expediency, and outright corruption have always dictated its decisions.

  • | Map depicting M23 areas of influence and operations in DRC as of February 6 2023 UN Group of Experts June 2023 report | MR Online

    Human suffering worsens in DRC, the heart of Africa

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 28, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.

  • | Artisanal miners in Democratic Republic of Congo Photo Lynsey AddarioGetty Images Reportage for TIME | MR Online

    OceanGate and how the wealthy kill

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 28, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The saga of the OceanGate Titan submersible was the sort of story that rivets millions of people. Not only was it revealed that passengers paid $250,000 to see the wreck of the Titanic, but the vessel was poorly built, and its creator ignored warnings about its defects and continued to use it.

  • | At the National Network On Cuba 2022 Fall Meeting Cubas Ambassador to the United Nations Yuri Gala López explains how State Sponsors of Terrorism designation intensifies the US blockade Photo Bill Hackwell | MR Online

    U.S. imperialist gangsterism and Cuba

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 14, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a Rogue State as “a nation or state regarded as breaking international law and posing a threat to the security of other nations.”

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