Black Agenda Report
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France and the U.S. Play Tag-Team in Africa By Glen Ford
The United States and France, once thought of as imperial competitors, act as military tag team partners in Africa. France puffed up like a hyper-aggressive peacock in the assault on Libya, and now strikes unilaterally against Islamists in Mali. But the junior imperialist’s brashness comes with the confidence that the superpower has its back. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 January 2013: Obama / MLK / Haiti / FCC / Africa / Django Unchained…
17 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report New this week at Black Agenda Report Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If Dr. King were alive today, there might be a Black president, but he or she would certainly not get MLK’s support if he behaved like Barack Obama.… Continue reading
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The U.S. Military Swarms Over Africa By Glen Ford
2013 is the year the U.S. kicks off its wholesale military occupation of Africa. The escalation should come as no surprise, since the Army Times newspaper [8] reported, back in June, that a U.S. brigade of at least 3,000 troops would become a permanent presence on the continent in the new year. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Jan 9 2013: Race 2 The Top Drives School Closings, Obama's Road To Austerity…
10 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama’s Race To The Top Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report December 5, 2012 — Shameless Susan Rice Supporters, Latinos Lead the Way
6 December 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Shameless Vacuity of Susan Rice’s Black Boosters by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Africa doesn’t matter, U.S. wars don’t matter, nothing matters to the Black Misleadership Class except the sickly prestige of basking in the (distant) glow of power. Susan Rice’s “Black boosters embrace… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 28, 2012 — Susan Rice to Oversee Congo Genocide? FCC to OK Media Consolidation? Why White folks Get Mad…
28 November 20912 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report A Second Wave of Genocide Looms in Congo, with Susan Rice on Point Wed, 11/28/2012 – 13:14 — Glen Ford by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Susan Rice is a woman of ghastly accomplishments: suppressor of the facts on genocide in Congo, and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 22, 2012 — Is Israeli Apartheid OK? Susan Rice & Humanitarian Intervention
21 November 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Disconnecting the Dots on Israel-Palestine: Is Apartheid Only A Crime When Committed Against Blacks? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most of the world supported the struggle of African Americans against Jim Crow during the Freedom Movement. Most of the progressive black… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 7, 2012: Victory! — Black America's Lost Moral Compass — Hurricane Sandy & the Failed State
8 November 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Victory! – for the Non-Resistance by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The More Effective Evil has trounced those Republicans with evil intentions. Folks who never made a single demand of the corporate, war mongering Democrat think they are some kind of victors.… Continue reading
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Arab Revolutions Will Never be Made-in-the-USA
The New York Times noted the anniversary of the murder of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in typical imperial fashion: with a combination of lies and exhortations. The Times editorial was titled, “Making Revolution Work.” Of course, the nine month long NATO assault on a country of six million people was not a revolution in any… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 31, 2012 – Most Important Election Ever, Really? Obama the Untouchable, Made in the USA
31 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Is This Really The Most Important Election Ever? If So, Then Where Are Our Issues? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon It’s hard to see how an election is so darn important for black America when the candidates aren’t talking about… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 24, 2012 — Melissa Harris-Perry VS Alice Walker, Romney & Obama as Imperial Lodge Brothers
17 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Melissa Harris-Perry VS Alice Walker: Sista Courtier VS the Real Sista Citizen By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Professor Melissa Harris-Perry has an MSNBC show and a byline in The Nation as “Sister Citizen.” But what would the output of a… Continue reading
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Chavez Beats the Devil, Again By Glen Ford
Hugo Chavez has won six more years as president of Venezuela and a model for standing up to the United States. Chavez’s longevity in the face of implacable imperial hostility shows that the “Washington Consensus” is defunct. “Latin America is the corner of the world that has achieved the greatest success over the last 20… Continue reading
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An Evening with Black Agenda Report Friday Oct 12 Riverside Church at 7 PM
BAR are throwing a fundraiser in Harlem on 12 October 2012. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 3, 2012 — Occupy the Debates, Int'l Criminal Court on Trial, How Mass Incarceration Changes Everthing
3 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why This Black Man Is Watching the Debates, and Voting Green by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I’ll be watching the debates. Not on CNN or ABC, but online at Occupy the Debates or at Democracy Now or Free Speech TV,… Continue reading
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Video: Black Agenda Report Editor: "Obama is not the lesser evil"
Glen Ford: President Obama has managed the crisis on behalf of the 1% more effectively than a Republican could have Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 September 2012: What Obama Has Wrought / Dem's True Colors / Dubois: Why I Won't Vote
5 September 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left What Obama Has Wrought by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The meticulously scripted spectacles of the two corporate party conventions are very poor backdrops for clear thinking – but luckily, the ordeals are almost over. What remains after the tents… Continue reading
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South Africa’s Unfinished Revolution and the Massacre at Marikana
The massacre of 34 miners at Marikana lays bare the central contradiction of the South African “arrangement.” Back in 1994, “the ‘revolution’ was put on indefinite hold, so that a new Black capitalist class could be created, largely from the ranks of well-connected members of the ruling party and even union leaders.” The regime now… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 August 2012: Obama's Left Apologists / Blasting the GOP / Massacre at Marikana
012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Fletcherism and Fakery: Guarding Obama’s Left Flank by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s key apologists on the Left have released their 2012 position paper, in which “the facts of the Obama presidency – his actual behavior on war, austerity, and civil liberties… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report July 4 2012: GOP Healthcare In Effect / GA Prison Strike / Frisco Stop-and-Frisk
4 July 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama Bound for Mount Rushmore? by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama‘s healthcare plan, now vetted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is the spawn of Republican reactionaries, “based on the principle that people should pay for their own bodily… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 