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Why Barack Obama Can't Shut Up | Black Agenda Report

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It will forever be galling that such a veritable horseman of the apocalypse ever earned a Nobel _Peace_ Prize. That moment was about the moment the prestige of that award died for me, was knowing that a man who destroyed two nations, killed thousands of civilians, and is the root cause of the emergence of slavery in Libya was getting a fuckin Nobel for his work in service of the oligarchs. > _We will never be rid of this man. As long as he lives, he will claim innocence and practice misdirection to keep millions of people confused about the cause of their travails. Those of us who pay attention know better. Barack Obama will always act like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth. It is up to everyone else to tell the truth about him._

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Musings from the Margins # 3: The Crimes of the White West are Coming Home Again, Or as Malcolm X Said, “The Chickens are Coming Home to Roost” | Black Agenda Report

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1786089 > Ajamu Baraka just _does not miss._ Some choice excerpts from these musings (though I exhort you to read the article yourself): > > >_It is important to keep in mind that the foundation for Russiagate was erected on the repressive legislative superstructure under the Bush and Obama Administrations. The result? Today, opposition is systematically criminalized in the U.S. The indictments of the Uhuru 3 for opposing Ukraine war, charges of domestic terrorism and conspiracy in the fight against Cop-City, and the ongoing attempts to extradite Julian Assange represent the consolidation and normalization of bipartisan totalitarian power._ > > > > ... > > > > _There is something to 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 an inability to perceive objective reality in the same way as others. This affliction is not reducible to the race of so-called whites but can affect all those who have come in contact with the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial project.”_ > > > > ... > > > > _Sanders demonstrates why he was revealed as the sheepdog that he was. He was never committed to struggling for real power in the democrat party. That is why he sold out his supporters and surrendered. Sanders is nothing more than an opportunist democrat and a fraud._

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Musings from the Margins # 3: The Crimes of the White West are Coming Home Again, Or as Malcolm X Said, “The Chickens are Coming Home to Roost” | Black Agenda Report

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Ajamu Baraka just _does not miss._ Some choice excerpts from these musings (though I exhort you to read the article yourself): >_It is important to keep in mind that the foundation for Russiagate was erected on the repressive legislative superstructure under the Bush and Obama Administrations. The result? Today, opposition is systematically criminalized in the U.S. The indictments of the Uhuru 3 for opposing Ukraine war, charges of domestic terrorism and conspiracy in the fight against Cop-City, and the ongoing attempts to extradite Julian Assange represent the consolidation and normalization of bipartisan totalitarian power._ > > ... > > _There is something to 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 an inability to perceive objective reality in the same way as others. This affliction is not reducible to the race of so-called whites but can affect all those who have come in contact with the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial project.”_ > > ... > > _Sanders demonstrates why he was revealed as the sheepdog that he was. He was never committed to struggling for real power in the democrat party. That is why he sold out his supporters and surrendered. Sanders is nothing more than an opportunist democrat and a fraud._


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MANIFESTO: Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, Frances Beal, 1969 | Black Agenda Report

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Similar to BAR's editorial staff, I consider _the entirety of_ Frances Beal's "Double Jeopardy" to be... Practically mandatory reading for anyone who considers themselves serious about, or _wanting_ to get serious about working alongside subjects-of-empire and their formations. This is what came _before_ 'intersectionality', and how Twitter libs absolutely butchered _that_ concept into the limping carcass it is today. (Also: I find it funny that even in 1969, Beal was already penning the paragraphs to categorically nail the ADOS coffin shut regarding "the emasculation of Black men" and how often Nasheed and his orbiters _first_ throw that flag at the feet of Black women before anyone else.) > _It is true that our husbands, fathers, brothers and sons have been emasculated, lynched and brutalized. They have suffered from the cruellest assault on mankind that the world has ever known. However, it is a gross distortion of fact to state that black women have oppressed black men. The capitalist system found it expedient to enslave and oppress them and proceeded to do so without signing any agreements with black women._ > >... > > _Those who are exerting their "manhood" by telling black women to step back into a domestic, submissive role are assuming a counter-revolutionary position. Black women likewise have been abused by the system and we must begin talking about the elimination of all kinds of oppression. If we are talking about building a strong nation, capable of throwing off the yoke of capitalist oppression, then we are talking about the total involvement of every man, woman, and child, each with a highly developed political consciousness. We need our whole army out there dealing with the enemy and not half an army._

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The Africa Climate Summit has ended. Here's a link to the resulting Nairobi declaration, signed by 54 african countries(, and a t.l.;d.r. below)(, the point 39.IV.2, in particular, may interest you).

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1678701 > + 4 : The 6th Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [states] that the world is not on track to keeping within the 1.5°C limit agreed upon in Paris and that **global emissions must be cut by 45% in this decade** > + 8 : Africa is not historically responsible for global warming, but bears the brunt of its effect > + 11 : Only seven years remain to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda, and (...) 600 million people in Africa still lack access to electricity while 970 million lack access to clean cooking; > + 12 : [Africa] is home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing workforce, coupled with massive untapped renewable energy potential(, see §16), abundant natural assets, and entrepreneurial spirit, our continent has the fundamentals to pioneer a climate-positive pathway as a thriving, cost-competitive industrial hub with the capacity to support other regions in achieving their net zero ambitions. > + 17 : We call upon the global community to (...) honor the commitment to provide $100 billion in annual climate finance, **as promised 14 years ago** at the Copenhagen conference, (...) > > - 39.*I* : [We call for ]Multilateral Development Banks capitalization and deployment reform, (...). > > 39.*IV.1-i)* New debt relief interventions and instruments to pre-empt debt default – with the ability to a) extend sovereign debt tenor, and b) include a 10-year grace period. > > 39.*IV.1.iii)* Decisive action on the Promotion of inclusive and effective international tax cooperation at the United Nations (Resolution A/C.2/77/L.11/REV.1)–to reduce Africa’s loss of $ 27 billion annual corporate tax revenue through profit shifting, by at least 50% by 2030 and 75% by 2050. > > 39.*IV.2.i)* Increasing Africa’s renewable generation capacity from 56 GW in 2022 to at least 300 GW by 2030, both to address energy poverty and to bolster the global supply of cost-effective clean energy for industry; > > 39.*IV.2.ii)* **Shifting the energy-intensive (...) processing of Africa’s raw material exports [back ]to the continent**, [which would ]also serves as an anchor demand for our renewable energy and a means of rapidly reducing global emissions; > > 39.*IV.2.iii)* **Access to, and transfer of, environmentally sound technologies** > > 39.*IV.2.iv)* Designing global and regional trade mechanisms in a manner that enables products from Africa to compete on **fair and equitable terms**; > > 39.*IV.3)* Trade-related environmental tariffs and non-tariff barriers must be subject to multilateral discussions and agreements and not be unilateral, arbitrary or discriminatory > > > We, therefore; > > 1 : Call upon world leaders to appreciate that decarbonizing the global economy is also an opportunity to contribute to **equality and shared prosperity**; > 3 : Call acceleration of the ongoing initiatives to **reform the multilateral financial system and global financial architecture** including the Bridgetown Initiative, the Accra-Marrakech Agenda, the UN Secretary General’s SDG Stimulate Proposal, and the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact; > 4 : Urge the efforts to refine the G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments > 6 : We note that multilateral finance reform is necessary but not sufficient to provide the scale of climate financing the world needs > 7 : We urge world leaders to rally behind the proposal for a [global] carbon taxation regime including a carbon tax on fossil fuel trade, maritime transport, a biennial, and aviation, that may also be augmented by a global financial transaction tax (FTT)) to provide dedicated affordable and accessible finance for climate-positive investments > 8 : Propose to establish a new financing architecture that is responsive to Africa’s needs including debt restructuring and relief, including the development of a new Global Climate Finance Charter through UNGA and COP processes by 2025; > > Also, [here](https://apnews.com/article/africa-climate-summit-kenya-cc6f0a694ea12a1d42371df8f0fdee69)'s an extract i found from the Associated Press : > 

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The Climate Crisis Will End When Capitalism Ends | Black Agenda Report

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Posted here, because y'know what? Climate change _is_ an issue that the whole globe will have to deal with if these sociopathic Amerikan energy execs aren't handled. > _“No more drilling on federal lands. Period.^1^ Period.^2^ Period.^3^ Period.^4^” --Joe Biden February 9, 2020_ (^1^ lies, ^2^ more lies, ^3^ damnable lies, ^4^ farce) > _The duopoly’s good cop/bad cop routine is quite predictable. Republicans pledge to drill for oil and proclaim their disdain for environmental concerns by opting out of international climate accords. Democrats join the climate accords and claim they will work towards a fossil free future, as Biden did during his 2020 campaign. But once in office they do what Republicans do. The U.S. is now producing a record 12.8 million barrels of oil per day , more than any other nation. Democrats are the worst liars in this regard, as they are well aware that their voters want action on the environment, but their bread is buttered by big oil._ But the corporate uniparty's two kayfabe-assed wrestling divisions aren't rawdogging us the exact same way, right? _Mmmmh._ > _Biden has issued more permits for oil drilling on federal land than Donald Trump did. He approved the Willow Project on federal lands in Alaska, a project which is estimated to produce more than 239 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses over the project’s 30-year life._ But, 'vote blue no matter who', right? _Mmmmh._ > _The much vaunted Inflation Reduction Act , presented as a path to a fossil free future, actually ties renewable energy programs to oil and gas drilling. The IRA prohibits leasing of federal lands and waters for renewable energy projects such as wind and solar, unless the government has offered at least 2 million acres of public land and 60 million acres in federal waters for oil and gas leasing during the prior year. Any environmental benefits are outweighed by acquiescence to corporate interests that are jeopardizing all life on the planet._ But the only way we can save the country and save our 'democracy'(fuckin lmao) is if we throw away our ballots on the same people charbroiling the planet, right? _Mmmmh._ > _Not only has Biden backtracked on campaign promises, but U.S. inclusion in the Paris climate accords doesn’t amount to very much. The Paris Agreement makes reporting on military CO2 production voluntary. NATO member nations may report on their CO2 emissions but NATO-led operations and training exercises are excluded from any reporting._ Okay, that one's not a surprise. The west would sooner collectively Christ-Bearer themselves than give up their toys of mass war crime, _or_ provide any kind of meaningful transparency on said toys. The fact of the matter is, everything we're doing regarding energy is entirely unsustainable; and I'm honestly at a point where if we can't disarm and pop our collective mouth off the titty of crude oil and fossil fuel _of our own volition,_ I don't have a single issue watching the country cave in on itself. Why should I humor your corrupt blue-ties when they'll cook the planet same as the Trump family cultists? Why should I believe in electoralism, when electoralism is what gave us this absolutely-fraudulent commissioner of skullduggery Biden? We need a new way forward. An _organized_ way forward. A _powerful_ way forward. All with sense know what power _doesn't_ grow out of.

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A declaration from West Africa Peoples Organization on Niger

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1224323 > >WAPO therefore strongly and unambiguously condemns the current warmongering attitude of ECOWAS and demands that the military bases of all [neo]imperialist and neo-conservative forces in West Africa be withdrawn. > > > >We call on our member organizations to close ranks and fight against any unjust [neo]imperialist war that might be imposed on our region by the folly of our bankrupt rulers. > > > >We firmly believe that the U.S., France, the U.K. and NATO will be the current beneficiaries of any war in Niger. It is clear that the dignity of our peoples and the sovereignty of Niger will be the losers.

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Black Alliance for Peace's Statement on Niger

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1194348 > > The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) condemn the threats of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to lead a military intervention into Niger. We believe this would be an act of subservience to U.S./EU/NATO interests. As Western imperialism seems to be losing its neo-colonialist grip on Africa, it is trying to expand its use of puppets and proxies to undermine resistance. > > No compromise; no retreat. Peace, y'all.

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Black Alliance for Peace's Statement on Niger

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> The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) condemn the threats of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to lead a military intervention into Niger. We believe this would be an act of subservience to U.S./EU/NATO interests. As Western imperialism seems to be losing its neo-colonialist grip on Africa, it is trying to expand its use of puppets and proxies to undermine resistance. No compromise; no retreat. Peace, y'all.

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Black liberation organizers indicted for opposing war

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It's like I keep saying. Rainer Shea can run his mouth about anything regarding the conflict; he'll never know federal harassment over it. Let one of _us_ oppose the conflict, though, and that's ten to life in a federal pen. But y'know, home of the free. Racism doesn't exist, that was solved with the last peckerwood-serving misleader of a president we had. We're not oppressed as an internal colony, _not at all._

Do pesky liberal shitbags keep trying to talk you in circles wasting time they haven't earned and aren't paying you for? Sounds like you're dealing with a Debate Pervert™. Slap 'em with this stamp.

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Censorship of the Black Left | Black Agenda Report

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1057413 > What do the Washington Post, Rainer Shea, and Youtube all have in common? Your first two guesses are free. > > Now, I'm not going to say I particularly trust Dr. Cornel West-- I'd have to do more research into him as a person before I did as a candidate; but I do rather like the way this article draws up the settler-liberal efforts to sideline him the same way publications like BAR, or channels like BPM and RBN have been getting sidelined and silenced by Youtube. > > > _The man whose politics have been described as fascistic, who has been labeled as the most racist president, is one whom they cannot defeat politically. **That is because the Democratic Party isn’t really much different. And so they are at a loss as to how to secure victory without silencing anyone who might expose their fraudulence.** So it is the liberal class which has led the fight to silence the left._ > > > _This conundrum explains why the Cornel West candidacy is so dangerous as are the outlets which allow him to speak about the issues that matter to millions of people, issues they’re told can’t be addressed. And so the corporate media and the liberal class join in condemning his candidacy. **The Nation magazine, allegedly left, asks West to run as a Democrat, a sure way to be the latest sheepdog, the latest person to sacrifice the needs of millions of people to prop up what can’t be propped up.** And that is why it is important to silence outlets like Black Power Media and Revolutionary Blackout Network. **It is Black people who still keep the Democratic party together and who must be convinced that they can’t stray from its orthodoxy.**_ (emphasis mine)

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Censorship of the Black Left | Black Agenda Report

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What do the Washington Post, Rainer Shea, and Youtube all have in common? Your first two guesses are free. Now, I'm not going to say I particularly trust Dr. Cornel West-- I'd have to do more research into him as a person before I did as a candidate; but I do rather like the way this article draws up the settler-liberal efforts to sideline him the same way publications like BAR, or channels like BPM and RBN have been getting sidelined and silenced by Youtube. > _The man whose politics have been described as fascistic, who has been labeled as the most racist president, is one whom they cannot defeat politically. **That is because the Democratic Party isn’t really much different. And so they are at a loss as to how to secure victory without silencing anyone who might expose their fraudulence.** So it is the liberal class which has led the fight to silence the left._ > _This conundrum explains why the Cornel West candidacy is so dangerous as are the outlets which allow him to speak about the issues that matter to millions of people, issues they’re told can’t be addressed. And so the corporate media and the liberal class join in condemning his candidacy. **The Nation magazine, allegedly left, asks West to run as a Democrat, a sure way to be the latest sheepdog, the latest person to sacrifice the needs of millions of people to prop up what can’t be propped up.** And that is why it is important to silence outlets like Black Power Media and Revolutionary Blackout Network. **It is Black people who still keep the Democratic party together and who must be convinced that they can’t stray from its orthodoxy.**_ (emphasis mine)

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The State's Constant Attack on Black Liberation | Black Agenda Report

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> Black people who assert their rights to be sovereign and liberated have always been treated as enemies to be silenced or destroyed. Even enslaved people who sought to escape from bondage were labeled as sufferers of “drapetomania.” The effort to pathologize and stigmatize the fight for freedom never ended. To this very day Black liberation is diminished and discredited as being wrong headed or dangerous. It continues to this day. We see it in the way the Uhuru House wasn't allowed to protest the war effort without literally getting raided and incarcerated as "Russian disinfo agents". We see it in the way that online _settler_-liberals can't help but slander any criticism as "bot farms". We see it in the way that when one of our Misleaders thrives on the malicious philanthropy of the settlers(\*cough* CLARENCE \*cough*), _nothing resembling legal consequences ever seems to happen to them._ "Sell out to us and we'll uplift _you,_ at the cost of your community". This is the byline of the Amerikan Dream offered to us. "Sell out to us, and _you'll_ be comfortable. Sell out to us, and we won't send stochastic crackers to gun you down in broad daylight." That's all it is. And when you don't comply, you're "a Russian" in need of silencing. In need of incarceration. In need of _assassination._ > The fear also explains why the forces arrayed against us continue their fight. Black liberation is dangerous to them. Anti-imperialism is dangerous to them. Challenging the political duopoly is dangerous to them. Allowing any counter narrative to thrive puts the system at risk. I struggled for a couple minutes on how to end this; cause ending with a quote makes it feel like an eternal pause-- so I'm going to end it by telling you to get armed. Arm up, learn your tool, practice with it. The hard days are coming; and it's better to have and not need, than to need and not have.

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Peru’s Black Misleadership Class Complicit with Coup Regime and International Far Right | Black Agenda Report

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I was gonna open this one up with "Amerika ain't the only country with a malfeasant Misleadership Class"; and then I saw the byline. > _The U.S. isn't the only country with a duplicitous Black political class. The coup government in Peru has Black "leaders" who protect and defend the right wing who ousted an elected president and violate the people's human rights._

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Who is Afraid of (Black) Nationalism?  - Hood Communist

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> What they fear is that the revolutionary nationalist will engage in the same savagery that has marked the European’s “national conquest”. They fear a reverse “Manifest Destiny” or the brown-black version of the “White Man’s Burden”. Post this link the next time a settler starts getting buck around the concepts of self-determination. The only place I feel this article falls short is that it makes very little mention of our Indigenous comrades, who in many respects, have been dealt a much harsher hand in comparison to what we've gone through. Things that comrades here have given me pause on; with regard to concepts like the Black Belt Republic being a practical nonstarter given that's not even the settler's land, that was always someone else's. While I see _actual Panafricanism_ as a viable road for Black comrades, in Amerika at least, we can't forget that we're not the only ones wronged here; and any liberation we reach means nothing if it's not together with the other colonized subjects-of-empire on this landmass, is where I want to get off this soapbox.

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Stop Cop City goes to the people in petition push, opens federal lawsuit

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/941284 > >The city rules around gathering signatures are convoluted. The person signing must reside in Atlanta and have been eligible to vote in the November 2021 election. The person collecting the signatures has to be an Atlanta resident, and each signature must be witnessed by someone who has been registered to vote since Oct. 4, 2021. In some cases, this means that two canvassers are needed in order to collect each signature. > > > >On July 7, four anti-Cop City activists who live in DeKalb County — a majority Black, working-class county located a few miles away from the proposed site of the militarized police training facility — filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia. They charge that the Atlanta law is unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds, saying the law “endangers any effort to successfully petition local governments to amend or repeal laws by popular vote.” > > > >Those who will be most impacted by Cop City — including by the constant sound of gunfire, vehicle-driving exercises, a burn tower, urban warfare training and the environmental devastation Cop City will cause — not only cannot vote, but also can’t participate in making the referendum possible. No date has been set for the court hearing.