Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report for February 12, 2014: Workers Rebel in South Africa, Obama Hypocrisy on Homophobia, Gangster Put Contract on
12 February 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Freedom Charter is Key to New Struggle for South Africa by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Marikana was the great shock to the national consciousness, and Mandela’s death brought a final end to the pretense of social transformation.” In the transition from… Continue reading
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This week in Black Agenda Report 5 February 2014: Whitening Detroit, Documents Prove DEA Coached Cops To Lie, Legal Lynchings
5 February 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report “Operation Afro-Dilution”: Michigan’s Plan to Flood Detroit with Upscale Immigrants by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It is the general consensus among white people that Detroit’s problem is, too many Blacks. Michigan’s governor has a solution: flood the city with upscale green… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 January 2014: 2014 State of the Union: Awful, A Festival of Lies, Hypocrisy on Minimum Wage
29 January 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report American State of the Union: A Festival of Lies by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Before the nation and the world, President Obama pledges to take “action” against “economic inequality,” while simultaneously holding secret negotiations on a Trans Pacific Partnership trade scheme… Continue reading
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Syria Peace Conference: the Obama’s Administration Orwellian Subterfuge By Ajamu Baraka
It is difficult to call this week’s gathering in Montreux, Switzerland, a “peace conference” on Syria, since the U.S. and its allies are determined to change the regime by force of arms. Washington has forged an “unholy alliance with its “Wahhabi allies from Saudi Arabia and al-Qaeda,” who act as America’s “boots on the ground.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for January 22, 2014: Black Madness! Richard Sherman! Toxic Democrats!
22 January 2014 — Black Agenda Report Black Madness Under Obama: African Americans More Pro-NSA, Anti-Snowden Than Whites and Hispanics by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A new poll shows “Blacks remain more NSA spy-friendly than whites and Hispanics.” Earlier surveys showed Blacks were the ethnic group most willing to go along with Obama’s threatened… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for January 15, 2014: Moral Monday Branding / Obama-Paul Scam Zones / COINTELPRO Busted
15 January 2014 — Black Agenda Report Moral Monday A Branding Exercise Blaming Republicans for Stuff Democrats Helped Them Do by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Is Moral Monday “sweeping the nation”? Is it the beginning of a new movement, or the revival of an old one? Or is it a sad, cynical and… Continue reading
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The African National Congress: The Rise and Tragic Fall of a Revolutionary Movement By Anthony Monteiro
Black “rule” in South Africa is illusory. “White supremacy without the obvious hand of white people is the form of social and political control, which replaces legal apartheid.” The revolution was derailed. “The road from the Freedom Charter, to the Morogoro Consultative Conference, to the 1994 elections, to the murder of 34 miners at Mirikana… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 January 2014: Obama the Dis-Equalizer / End of Pot Wars? / Prosecutorial Racism
9 January 2014 — Black Agenda Report Obama, the Great Dis-Equalizer by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama has used up his people-friendly rhetoric over the past five years, and is now repeating promises he’s already made and broken: to raise the minimum wage, strengthen worker rights, establish truly universal health care, and fight… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for December 18, 2013: The Long Death of Nelson Mandela, Obama's Legacy, Snowden Person of the Year
20 December 2013 — Black Agenda Report Nelson Mandela’s Long Death by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As Nelson Mandela lay for nine months near death, the world got an education on his legacy – including the scope of the deal that he and his African National Congress comrades cut to abandon the Freedom Charter. Blacks… Continue reading
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Book Review: From the Bullet to the Ballot: An Unfavorable Review of a Work on the Black Panther Party Bruce A. Dixon
Historians are supposed to help us make sense of the world, by illuminating the forces and trends that shape the lives and destinies of ordinary people. But historians in the service of power do something else. Whether carelessly or carefully, they omit and distort to come up with histories that justify today’s establishment as the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Dec 4, 2013: Obama, Holder Extend Crack Sentences, Detroit on the Auction Block, Blaming Blacks
5 December 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama & Holder Win Court Case, Keep Thouands in Prison Under Unfair 80s Crack Sentencing Laws A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Who’s opposed to mass incarceration and the prison state, and who is faking the funk?… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Nov 27, 2013: Lynching as a Misdemeanor / Gates Distorts Black History / Thanks for Whistleblowers
27 November 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Lynching as a Misdemeanor by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Four white San Jose State University students who assaulted a Black teenager for nearly two months have been charged only with misdemeanors, when their crimes actually constitute “felonious battery, terroristic threats, and kidnapping.”… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 20 November 2013: Too Big To Jail Banksters, the Real Axis of Evil, Obamacare Doomed
20 November 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama and Holder Let Gangsters Pay Fine, Continue Business As Usual by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Going on five years into the Obama regime, it is clear that Wall Street is immune from prosecution, no matter the savagery of the economic crime. Attorney… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 November 2013: Broken Promises Min Wage / Detroit Down for Count / Justice for Renisha McBride
13 November 2913 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Progressive Sheepdogs, Democrat Sheep: Broken Promises & the Minimum Wage by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon If President Obama and his party didn’t even try to deliver on their 2008 campaign promise of a minimum wage hike when they had the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Friday, Nov 9, 2013: Detroit As Dred Scott, Saving the White Man, AFRICOM Riding High
8 November 2013 — Black Agenda Report Friday, Nov. 8: This week in Black Agenda Report Detroit as Dred Scott by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The bum-rush to bankrupt Detroit is the leading legal edge in Wall Street’s drive to declare Black urban dwellers “beings of an inferior order” with no rights that Capital… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Oct 30, 2013: Wall St. vs Detroit / Military Takeover Chicago / Black Faces for White People
30 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Detroit Will be Democracy’s Decisive Battle by BAR executive editor Glen FordDetroit is the battleground chosen by Wall Street to crush the last vestiges of American democracy by creating “the template for direct corporate rule.” Finance capital recognizes that it can no… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Oct 23, 2013: Black Homeland Security Chief / Remember Grenada Invasion / Forgiving White People
23 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Who is Jeh Johnson, and Why Should Black People Be Hanging Our leads in Shame? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Department of Homeland Security is a secretive, lawless, largely privatized police and surveillance agency, with its own prisons and… Continue reading
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Video: Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Glen Ford Pt1
23 October 2013 — The Real News Network On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the North living with his white activist mother, and living in the Deep South with his black deejay father. (inc.… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 October 2013: Was the Affordable Care Act Worth It? Did the Hip Hop Mayor Sink Detroit?
16 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obamacare VS Single Payer – Top 10 Things the ACA Gave Us VS the Top 10 We Gave Up By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most things have two prices — the price you pay outright, and the opportunity cost, the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 October 2013: Wall Street Bets Quadrillions / Real Conspiracies / Racism Vanishes
9 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Wall Street Bets a Quadrillion of Everybody Else’s Money by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Americans are driven to panic at the prospect of a technical federal default, later this month – an event that could cost the public treasury billions. But… Continue reading