Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report for May 1, 2013: NY Times Slanders Black Farmers, Crushed By Capitalism, Death in Somalia
1 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Breitbart Lives? New York Times & Slate.com Do Sloppy Racist Hatchet Job on Black Farmers Lawsuit By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On Friday, April 26, the New York Times, with an assist from the Washington Post property Slate.com committed a journalistic atrocity… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 April 2013: op 10 Things We'll Have After Obama, Everyday Terror
25 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Obama Legacy, Pt 1 of Many: Top Ten Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Barack Obama leaves the White House in January 2017, what will black… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for April 17, 2013: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache, Obama & The Class War
17 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Big Nausea: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Who will defend the indefensible Obama? Answer: There will be fewer and fewer Obamapologists, as each day passes. “For the monumentally dysfunctional Black Misleadership Class, the winding down… Continue reading
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Africa: Imperialism’s High Mark of Conquest in the 21st Century By Glen Ford
The US-NATO military curtain has fallen the length and breadth of Africa. “Zimbabwe and tiny Eritrea are among the few nations on the African continent that have not yet been absorbed into the AFRICOM matrix.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda 27 March 2013: Is the Prison Industrial Complex Real? Throwing BRICS at US Empire, Obama Turns Right
27 March 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Black Mass Incarceration —- Is It New? Is It Jim Crow? Is the Prison-Industrial Complex Real? And What Difference Does It Make By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book “New Jim Crow” provided a language to talk about the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report March 20, 2013: Disaster Capitalism in Detroit, Cypus, Atlanta, US-Israel Axis of Evil
20 March 2013 — This week in Black Agenda Report From Detroit to Cyprus, Banksters in Search of Prey by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Detroit and the people of Cyprus share the same enemy.” The Lords of Capital, who are preparing to snatch chunks of cash straight out of ordinary people’s accounts in Cyprus, to… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 March 2013: Iraq Scorched Earth 10 Years Later, Exposing Democrats, Against Privatization
13 March 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The U.S. Scorched Earth Policy, Ten Years After Iraq Invasion by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In desperation to halt the slide into “non-empire” status, the U.S. makes every government on Earth a potential target for “humanitarian” military intervention. The imposition of… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 6 March 2013: Chavez / Bradley Manning / Sequestration / Congo / Haiti
6 March 2013 00 — Black Agenda Report Hugo Chavez: New World Rising by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The great Bolivarian is gone – which means the U.S. will soon escalate its destabilization campaign against his country. “Washington hopes that Venezuelan socialism cannot survive without Chavez.” But the U.S. cannot roll back the movement… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for February 20 2013: Stopping Obama From Privatizing Education, US Gives Haiti the Gift of Prisons
21 February 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report On Education, Barack Obama is the President of Privatization. Can We Stop Him? Will We? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon By the time his term is over, President Obama and his Race To The Top program will have forced the… Continue reading
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Fleets of Drones Descend on Africa By Glen Ford
U.S. drone bases are multiplying on the African continent. Niger has just “given the green light to accepting American surveillance drones on its soil”; neighboring Burkina Faso already has one; two new drone facilities are opening in Ethiopia and the Seychelles; and UN peacekeepers in Congo want U.S. drones. Drones have terrorized Somalia from AFRICOM’s… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 February 2013: Why Nobody's Listening to Black Folk, Sniper Gets Sniped, New Black Agenda TV Episode
7 February 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why Nobody’s Paying Attention to Black Folks These Days by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Don’t expect President Obama to offer any measures targeted to the Black economic crisis in his State of the Union address. He’s under absolutely no pressure to… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 31 January 2013: Melissa Harris-Perry Hides Cause of School Closings, Job Discrimination, Mali
31 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report Melissa Harris-Perry Buries The Lead Story on National Wave of Public School Closings By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When print or broadcast news outlets grab a compelling story, only to distract attention away from what the public needs to know, that’s called “burying the lead.” That’s what… Continue reading
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The Coming Imperial Implosion in the Arab World By Glen Ford
The French intervention in Mali and the deadly Salafist assault on an Algerian natural gas facility on the border with Libya reveal the deepening crisis of U.S. and European imperialism in northern Africa. What is playing out in the western Sahel is the direct, and broadly predictable, result of the aggressive Euro-American response to the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 January 2013: Obama / Aaron Swartz / Arab World / Housing / Mali / Slavery / MLK /
23 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report New this week at www.blackagendareport.com The White House Un-Reality Show by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Despite the fact that “it was Barack Obama who began the current austerity offensive in the weeks before delivering his first inaugural address,” the president was allowed to pose as a champion of… Continue reading
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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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