Black Agenda Report
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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
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BA_Report 27 June 2012: Re-Open Cointelpro / ATL Plantation Politics / Race Talk Taboo
26 June 2012 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left Black On The Old Plantation A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Metro Atlanta is now the second largest concentration of African-descended people in North America. But with civil rights organizations firmly in corporate pockets, it’s still… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 May 2012: Black Agenda Report – Obama's Gay Gambit / Death By Wall St. / Phantom Issues
16 May 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama’s No-Risk Drive-By On Gay Marriage by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The president’s announcement favoring the right of same sex couples to marry is long overdue and better than nothing. But it doesn’t make him a fearless warrior… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 21 March 2012: Justice for Trayvon / Obama's Magic Wand / The Assassin President / BATV
21 March 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Barack Obama, Democratic Expectations and the Magic Wand by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What are the people who tell us President Obama hasn’t got a “magic wand” really saying? That we have no right to expect a president… Continue reading
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The U.S. Empire’s Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism
American racism will always cripple its ability to occupy non-white countries, whose people the U.S. fundamentally disrespects. “The United States cannot help but be a serial abuser of the rights of the people it occupies, especially those who are thought of as non-white, because it is a thoroughly racist nation.” The latest atrocities in Afghanistan… Continue reading
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Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony
A week ago Invisible Children released a video that was immediately picked up and promoted by every corporate news and entertainment outlet till it went “viral”. Kony 2012 allegedly “promotes awareness” of and contributes to the end of child soldiering in Africa. But is that really what it’s about? Is it, like the old Save… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 14 March 2012: The KONY Scam / Farewell Kucinich / Racist Empire / Obama Role Model?
14 March 2012 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A week ago Invisible Children released a video that was immediately picked up and promoted by every corporate news and entertainment outlet… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 1 March 2012: NYPD Looks for Terrorists at Black Girls' School in Newark
The NYPD recognizes no jurisdictional boundaries in its religion- and race-based dragnets. Funded partly with federal money intended to curb drugs, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s secret police imposed hyper-surveillance on Muslims in nearby Newark, New Jersey and other out-of-state localities. “It is as if the police saturated every Italian-American neighborhood, restaurant, business, social club, church, school,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 February 2012: GOP Goes Off the Cliff / Obama's Tax Scam / Black Children as Terrorists
29 February 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Like Bill Clinton, Obama Drives Crazy Republicans Even Crazier Thu, 03/01/2012 – 16:01 – Bruce A. Dixon by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When a right wing Democrat occupies the White House it does stranger things to Republicans than the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 February 2012: Need A Black Agenda / Lying Media / Obama Weakens Unions
22 February 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left The Need for a Black Agenda by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The African American Left’s failure to formulate a Black Agenda has made it “largely irrelevant during the greatest crisis of capitalism since at least the Great Depression, and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report February 15 2012: Black MisLeading Looter Class / Warriors for Empire / Grammy Racism
15 February 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Giving Away the Store: The Black Political Class as Bystanders and Looters Dr. King once expressed the belief that we might be “integrating into a burning house.” Even that might not be so bad, one supposes, if we were… Continue reading
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BAR February 8 2012: Black Politics Atrophies / Super Pac Obama / Nigeria Oil Scourge / No To Drones and more…
8 February 2012 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left ‘By far the best left publication, never mind ‘black left’, on the Web. WB’ Black Politics Atrophies Under Obama by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Traditional Black progressive and movement politics has been replaced by fear and sycophantism, as… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 January 2012: Republican Cannibals / Stop, Frisk, Gentrify / Obama Right of Reagan
4 January 2012 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left The GOP Savages Itself, While Wall Street and Backs the Black Guy, Again by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Republican Party presidential campaign has been relegated to a sideshow in the American power game. The white nationalist masses… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 28 December 2011: The Democratic Wasteland / Mass Black Incarceration / Preventive Detention
28 December 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left This is BAR’s Limited Holiday Radio Edition. Our normal schedule resumes next Wednesday, January 4. Happy New Year! Continue reading
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NATO’s Depraved Disregard for Libyan Civilian Casualties By Glen Ford
The Times recent concern over Libyan victims of NATO bombing lacks credibility, given its wildly biased reporting of the war. ‘Thousands of black Libyan citizens and African migrant workers are dead at least partially as a result of western media lies.’ Continue reading
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BA Report 21 December 2011: Failing Our Imprisoned Youth / Black Tolerance of Obama / Passing of a Racist
21 December 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Georgia Prison Strike, One Year Later: Activists Outside the Walls Have Failed Those Inside the Walls by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In December 2010 inmates in up to a dozen Georgia prisons either refused to leave their… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 14 December 2011: Obama & GOP Clowns / Fascist America? /Dominican Rep Hates Blacks
14 December 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama and the GOP Circus Show by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Having shown his hand over the last three years as an eager – although often spurned – partner in Republican austerity politics, and a war-maker who could… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 