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3 weeks ago | 
blackagendareport.com | Jon Jeter |Jacqueline Luqman |Frank Chapman |Gerald Horne
Throughout history, trade restrictions have reshaped economies for good or for ill. As Trump increases tariffs across industries, it is clear that this move will not revitalize the economy as he claims. Rather, it stands to create further hardship for Black and working class people.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
repository.lsu.edu | Gerald Horne
PublisherRowman & LittlefieldAbstractHistorian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Garrett Felber |Julian Rose |Gerald Horne
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Sam C. Tenorio. Tenorio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of African American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His book is Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate? Sam C.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Margaret Kimberley |Djibo Sobukwe |Joe Lauria |Gerald Horne
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of NATO, we reprint W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1949 powerful testimony against the US militarization of Europe and the world. In late summer 1949, W. E. B. Du Bois testified before the US Congress against the Mutual Defense Assistance Act (MDAA). The MDAA was a direct result of the founding of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO), a military pact for collective defense of the US and Western Europe against the Soviet Union.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
africasacountry.com | Gerald Horne |Sean Jacobs
The legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died in November at the age of 100, has dominated the mainstream news. A former secretary of state, national security advisor, and elder statesman, he was lionized during his life as the man who opened the door to China, conducted “shuttle diplomacy” in the Middle East, and ended US involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
africasacountry.com | Gerald Horne |Sean Jacobs
This is an excerpt from Only the Good Die Young, a book-length anti-obituary for Henry Kissinger from Jacobin magazine. Western Sahara, situated in northwest Africa and occupied by Morocco since 1975, is by far the largest of the seventeen non-self-governing territories listed by the UN in which the decolonization process has yet to be completed.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
africasacountry.com | Gerald Horne |Christopher J. Lee |Alex Park
Henry Kissinger almost drowned. It was 1976. Scrambling to avoid being overtaken by events in the wake of Cuba’s earth-shattering intervention in Angola, he had decamped to southern Africa, where his immediate goal was to assess whether the illegal white minority regime in Rhodesia might endure.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
africasacountry.com | Gerald Horne |Noah Tsika |Marissa Moorman
For Ronald Reagan and a great many Americans, the arrival of Cuban troops in Angola in 1975 epitomized the poisoned fruit of détente. The way they saw it, the Soviets had dared for the first time to engage in a massive military intervention in Africa; they had pushed their Cuban proxies forward; and they had found this act of naked aggression both painless and profitable. President Ford and Kissinger had been unable to devise an effective response.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
jacobin.com | Gerald Horne
Henry Kissinger almost drowned. It was 1976. Scrambling to avoid being overtaken by events in the wake of Cuba’s earth-shattering intervention in Angola, he had decamped to southern Africa, where his immediate goal was to assess whether the illegal white minority regime in Rhodesia might endure.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
s-usih.org | Gerald Horne
The Book Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition The Author(s) Bronwen Everill Those familiar with the concept of “Fair Trade Coffee”, i.e. buying this product from sources that adhere to certain standards of production, will grasp the related notion inscribed on a sugar bowl of the 19th century: “East India Sugar Not Made by Slaves.” In this brisk jaunt through decades of history, the point is made that “consumer boycotts and [the] free produce movement have made their...
