Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report for March 6, 2014: At Russia's Gate, "Journalists" Follow Obama, Chokwe Lumumba & Jackson Rising
6 March 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Hillary and Other Assorted Barbarians at Russia’s Gate by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The United States is more than just an ally to fascists in Ukraine and everywhere else; the American South provided an historical model for fascism. “The fascist order… Continue reading
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Obama’s War Against Civilization By Glen Ford
The U.S. is in a frenzy of regime-changing aggression, aimed at destabilizing or destroying sovereign states. Obama’s signature is written in blood around the world, as he pursues “full spectrum, no-holds-barred, war-without-boundaries against all potential resistance to U.S. imperial rule, anywhere on the planet.” Continue reading
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Obama’s War Against Civilization By Glen Ford
The U.S. is in a frenzy of regime-changing aggression, aimed at destabilizing or destroying sovereign states. Obama’s signature is written in blood around the world, as he pursues “full spectrum, no-holds-barred, war-without-boundaries against all potential resistance to U.S. imperial rule, anywhere on the planet.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for February 19, 2014: Detroit's Agony: A People's Plan / Obama: More Mass Incarceration / White Men and Guns
19 February 2014 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Detroit’s Agony Shows Why Black America Needs A People’s Plan for the Cities by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Detroit, the Black Metropolis, is being disassembled. Having stolen local democracy, corporate planners now trip over themselves to create the grid for a… Continue reading
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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