October 7, 2016
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Black Agenda Report for October 6, 2016: CBC Report Card, Ignoring Angela Davis
7 October 2016 — Black Agenda Report CBC Report Card 2016: Why the Congressional Black Caucus Can’t Lead Black America by Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor The 41 full-voting Black Democratic members of the U.S. House scored higher than last year on the new CBC Monitor Report Card, but that’s mostly because Continue reading
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Ritzy staff strike for a living wage for the fifth time!
Now they’re on strike again, after the company (Picturehouse, owned by Cineworld) refused to negotiate over their claim including the London Living Wage. What’s more, their colleagues at Hackney Picturehouse have just voted to join their strike, adding recognition for their union BECTU to their demands. Continue reading
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NSA: Bombing of Cuban Jetliner 40 Years Later
On the 40th anniversary of the first and only mid-air bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere, the National Security Archive today called on the Obama Administration to declassify all remaining intelligence records on Luis Posada Carriles to shed light on his activities, provide historical evidence for his victims, and make a gesture… Continue reading
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Syria Propaganda – The Death Rattle of the Corporate Media By Simon Wood
As corporate media rhetoric against the current priority targets – Russia and Syria – is ramped up to extreme levels, a battle is raging within the only remaining global space for freedom of thought and expression: the internet – social media. Two warring, diametrically opposed realities vie for supremacy over the perceptions of the world’s… Continue reading
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NYT Declares Snowden a Thief–and Journalism a Crime
The problem with all this talk about the “theft” and “stealing” of secrets is that while Snowden, one of the most prominent whistleblowers of the modern era, has indeed been charged by the federal government with theft—along with two violations of the Espionage Act—he’s been convicted of no crime. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 