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Trump Keeps His Promises While Democrats Must Be Abandoned

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report Trump begins his term delivering on promises, but compromised and colluding democrats have ready excuses for betraying their voters. “Yet, with the return of Trump, opportunists in our communities and beyond are telling us that the real culprits in our oppression and the targets for opposition are Trump and republicans.” Black Alliance[…]

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Joe Biden’s Terrible Legacy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 15, 2025 The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for[…]

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Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters

by Gerry Condon, published on Workers World, January 10, 2025 Gerry Condon, who was a leading activist among exiled military deserters in Canada, places the role of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in perspective, while presenting a survey of how repulsion against the U.S. occupation of Vietnam drove varied forms of war and draft resistance among U.S. youths. These forms included[…]

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Liberal Arrogance and Hatred on Display After Trump Victory

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, November 13, 2024 While Donald Trump is frequently called a fascist and is even compared to Adolph Hitler, some angry democrats are engaging in their own racist and eliminationist rhetoric in the wake of his impending return to the presidency. Their reaction to Trump’s victory reveals that intolerance and bigotry are not unique[…]

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Behind Trump’s Decisive Victory

by Malik Miah and  Barry Sheppard, published on Socialist Action, November 11, 2024 Donald Trump swept the election for president, winning the popular vote by about 73,000,000 to Kamala Harris’s 68,000,000, the first time a Republican won the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2005. Trump also won the undemocratic but decisive Electoral College, 301 to 226, as of[…]

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A No Win Dilemma for U.S. Peace Voters

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, October 31, 2024 On October 24th, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu that the war is over, because it’s basically our proxy war. We control the armaments, the funding, the diplomatic cover, the intelligence, etc., so we can end[…]

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Fascism and War Cannot Be Voted Out

by Ellen Isaacs, published on Countercurrents, September 23, 2024 Editor’s Note: Another much needed perspective that has been in the queue for too long. [jb] Many progressive friends declare they will “hold their nose” and vote for Harris, if only to prevent Trump from instituting fascism. “Bad as she is” – intolerable on Palestine, flipflopping on the environment and health[…]

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October 7, The Election and Capitalist Crisis, A Conversation With Ajamu Baraka

by Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, October 8, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report is again in conversation with Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report Editor and Contributor. The US presidential election is just four weeks away, and momentous events are occurring, particularly in Western Asia, where Israel continues its onslaught with[…]

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Harris-Trump “Debate” Ruling Class Politics: The “Lesser Evil” Takes Some Blows

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, September 16, 2024 The two multi-billionaire-backed, 2024 presidential candidates faced off before some 67 million ABC-TV viewers on September 10. The pollsters recorded that Democrat Kamala Harris handily “won” the debate by a 66-34 margin. The New York Times’ fact checkers found that Republican Donald Trump lied or distorted facts 33 times; Harris made but[…]

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