9 December 2015 — Black Agenda Report
Dyson’s “Yes She Can” Is Another Lazy, Shameless Official Spokesnegro Audition Tape
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon
You’d think a “Yes She Can” piece about Hillary Clinton from a supposed black “public intellectual” would explain what and how she might do and why we should support her. You’d be wrong. That might be the job of an Official Spokenegro, but Michael Eric Dyson hasn’t landed that post with the Clinton administration yet. “Yes She Can” isn’t talking to black people, it’s aimed at flattering Dyson’s prospective bosses in the Clinton camp.
Freedom Rider: Syria and World War
by BAR Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley
Boundless American greed, warlike hubris and imperial muscle flexing are at the bottom of the wave of regfugees fleeing sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, at the roots of genocidal wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, and behind the simmering crisis in Ukraine. For the world’s only superpower there seem to be no limits, no counting of costs or consequences
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Deja vu all over again? The announcement of a pending Justice Department investigation of the Chicago Police Department, Dr. Coleman-Abedayo notes, should provoke yawns at best, and at worst outright suspicion of pending whitewash. It’s hard to believe an attorney general with such close ties to police unions that the national chair of the FOP and Rudi Guliani campaigned for her Senate approval, will find much wrong with cops in Cleveland, Chicago or anywhere else “under investigation”.
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Slutty Professor Strikes Again!
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner
Ronald Reagan once called the presidencey “the role of a lifetime.” The current occupant of the White House has proven that he is no slouch either at role playing and reinventing himself as he goes along…
COP 21 in Paris: No Climate Reparations, No Economic Retooling, Militarization and Business As Usual
by The Real News Network
Even before the recent killings in Paris, reports Kali Akuno, the Un Conference on Climate Change in Paris was calculated to ignore input from civil society. President Obama declared there would be no climate reparations, no massive retooling of economies, nothing but business as usual.
by Danny Haiphong
If the presidency of Bill Clinton brought black America “bad policy” reasons Michael Eric Dyson, and that of Barack Obama brought “no policy”, then certainly a Hillary Clinto presidency will yield “good policies” for black America. That’s about as deep and detailed as Dyson bothers to get in “Yes She Can”, his latest wet kiss to Hillary’s camp.
Causes and Consequences of the Socialist Loss at the Polls in Venezuela
by Tamara Pearson, Telesur English
The US-backed opposition to Venezuela’s Sociaist Party swept the December 6 elections, achieving a two thirds supermajority in that nation’s legislature.
AFRICOM: America’s Empire of Military Bases in Africa
by Nick Turse
The Pentagon claims to have only a single US military base on the African continent. This is an outright lie. the number of US military installations, training missions, military exercises and deployments on the African continent has soared in recent years under the Obama administration, and the Pentagon has taken active measures to conceal the depth and breadth of its African activities.
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
The supremely arrogant Mayor “Rahmbo” Emanuel has been temporarily chastened by the drumbeat of protests against the killing of Laquan McDonald, shot 16 times by a Chicago cop. Even much of the local Black Misleadership Class has found it necessary to “take a stance in opposition to Mayor Emanuel and the white corporate forces that he represents” – if only for the moment. Young people must stand fast with their “transformative demands.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Black people in Baltimore, USA, and Buenaventura, Colombia, are oppressed by the same monster. “In both cases, the effects of capitalist globalization have resulted in massive displacement of black populations; increased poverty; economic marginalization of black labor and state and private violence.” Colombian death squads have sent Danelly Estupiñan a message.
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Desperate to stem the “blackening” of the white homeland, the European Union last month offered billions in bribes to African governments to keep their citizens at home. “The goal of the ‘cash on the table’ deal was to place the responsibility for denying Africans refugee status in Europe on the shoulders of African countries.”
The Real News Network’s Jared Ball interviews Glen Ford on Michael Eric Dyson’s fulsome endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the New Republic.
by Danny Haiphong
The U.S. imperial domain floats on raw force and fairy tales. One myth “paints the U.S. as a safe haven for people of different backgrounds instead of the genocidal settler state that it is.” Another tale holds that multi-racial identity “carries with it new experiences with racism not yet easily understood or dealt with.” The truth is, the U.S.is racist to the core, and “proponents of multiracial identity possess little interest in solidarity.”
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