The New Dark Age

14 September 2011 — Black Agenda Report

Due to technical problems, this week’s BAR is a limited edition

Fauntroy’s Libya Massacres Story: No Time for Teasing
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
Rev. Walter Fauntroy has so far failed to follow up on his abbreviated tale of witnessing European special forces troops on an orgy of massacres and beheadings in Libya. The former DC congressional delegate’s story loses credibility with each day that he withholds further information. “It is mind-boggling to imagine why the French and the Danes would need to commit on-the-ground atrocities of their own, when they have at their disposal thousands of bloodthirsty Arab jihadis who have no problem doing their own massacres.”
Audio
http://traffic.libsyn.com/blackagendareport/20110914_gf_FauntroyLibyaStory.mp3
Text
http://blackagendareport.libsyn.com/fauntroy-s-libya-massacres-story-no-time-for-teasing

William Parker, 9/11 and American Mythology
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR editor and columnist Jared Ball
The United States is a mythical country, meaning most of what it says about itself is a lie. Since most of what the U.S. has historically said about its Black population is also a lie, it would serve African Americans well to invest in their own mythology as a kind of self-defense. William Parker, the freedom fighter and the myth, is an excellent candidate for the Black pantheon. “What better way to really commemorate a 9/11 than with reminders of radical organization and resistance to state-sanctioned terrorism?”
Audio
http://traffic.libsyn.com/blackagendareport/20110914_jb_WilliamParker.mp3
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http://blackagendareport.libsyn.com/william-parker-9-11-and-american-mythology

High Stakes Testing in Schools: Who’s Cheating Who?
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
under the false pretexts of reform, when the actual goal was union busting and privatization.” Corporate school privatizers feign disgust with teachers that cheat the standardized tests. But big business theft of public education is by far the greater sin. “The real cheats are those that pushed high stakes testing under false pretexts of ‘reform,’ when the actual goal was union busting and privatization.”
Audio
http://traffic.libsyn.com/blackagendareport/20110914_gf_SchoolCheating.mp3
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http://blackagendareport.libsyn.com/high-stakes-testing-in-schools-who-s-cheating-who-