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Musings from the Margins #4: Black Lackeys, White Social Democrats, Human Rights and Empire’s Decline

Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on Black Misleadership, faux Human Rights, the Decline of the Empire, White Social Democrats and other issues. What makes the white supremacy so incredibly dangerous is what I call the psychopathology of white supremacy. It is a racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with[…]

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Pro-Israel War Propaganda and Censorship

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 25, 2023 “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  Michael B. Eisen is just the latest victim of unrelenting pro-Israel war propaganda spread by[…]

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Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden Yes-Man, a Putin Apologist or a Peacemaker?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, September 5, 2023 Seems like at minimum, William Burns is a potential peace maker.  Perhaps the movement should reach out to him and explore possibilities.  [jb] Lost in a chaotic hall of mirrors of its own creation, the CIA has generally failed in its one and only legitimate task, to provide U.S.[…]

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Biden’s Debt Ceiling Betrayal is a Democratic Tradition

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 24, 2023 Joe Biden is continuing the ignoble tradition of colluding with republicans while pretending to fight them. The latest debt limit drama is another betrayal of the people. When Joe Biden was first elected president his propagandists and their friends in corporate media told us that he was “the most progressive[…]

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The Myth of Free Speech in America…

Fox News to Pay Dominion $787.5 Million for 2020 Election Lies While African People’s Socialist Party Persecuted and Julian Assange Jailed For Telling the Truth  Recent developments exposed the hypocrisy of the oligarchy owned Mainstream Media.  We shouldn’t forget that while all this Trump related BS was airing on Fox, the supposedly ‘left’ stations were busy covering for Joe Biden[…]

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Capitalism’s Looming Crises: From Budget Debt Hyperbole to Banking Disaster

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 24, 2023 President Joseph Biden presented his third annual budget proposal at $6.8 trillion on Thursday, March 9. A day later Silicon Valley Bank (SVP), in Santa Clara, California, the nation’s 16th largest, declared bankruptcy, followed days later by New York City’s Signature Bank. A half dozen others faced similar and immediate[…]

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20 Years After Iraq, Corporate Media Defends US War Crimes But Obsesses Over Trump Trivialities

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 22, 2023 Liberals and the media give great attention to Donald Trump’s legal problems that are related to his personal life, but they cover up for the war crimes he and other presidents committed. United States troops began the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003 under the direction of president George[…]

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East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 1, 2023 A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class. The U.S. is an oligarchy. Stating this fact explains events that may seem mysterious if this[…]

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Did the U.S. Blow Up Nord Stream if There is No Media to Report It?

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black agenda Report, February 15, 2023 A respected investigative journalist explains how the U.S. sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines. But corporate media working in service to the state ignore the story and endanger the world. “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” The idea[…]

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