Black Agenda Report
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Offensive By Glen Ford
As the U.S. and its NATO allies move southward to further consolidate their grip on Africa, following the seizure of Libya and its vast oil fields, most of the continent’s leadership seems to welcome re-absorption into empire. ‘Africa is the most vulnerable region in America’s warpath, a continent ripe for the plucking due to the… Continue reading
-
BA Report – US Africa Offensive / Occupy FCC / War Criminals / Decolonize Occupations – November 30
30 November 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Offensive by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As the U.S. and its NATO allies move southward to further consolidate their grip on Africa, following the seizure of Libya and its vast oil fields,… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report 23 November 2011: Van Jones Is Not OWS / Black Income Segregation / Brazil Death Squads
23 November 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left Gridlock is a Blessing: To Hell With Obama and His Van Joneses by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As BAR predicted, gridlock – which has finished off the congressional SuperCommittee – was the last, best hope to prevent Barack… Continue reading
-
Bloomberg Personifies What the Occupation Opposes BY Glen Ford
It was never in the cards for a plutocrat mayor to long tolerate a movement whose essential logic is the dissolution of his class. ‘If the Occupy Wall Street movement has been about anything, it is the absolute necessity to rid the nation – and the world – of the collective tyranny of the Bloombergs,… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of November 7, 2011
7 November 2011 — Black Agenda Radio Churches Seek to Withdraw $1 Billion >From Big Banks “If our New Bottom Line Coalition can move a billion dollars,” said Rev. Ryan Bell, of Hollywood Adventist Church, in Los Angeles, “then not only does that make a fiscal impact on the banks, but to accumulate a billion… Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report 26 October 2011: Gaddafi Butchered / OWS and Black Misleaders / Occupy Harlem! / Black Is Back
Moammar Gaddafi’s last minutes gave clarity to NATO’s war in Libya. It is a mission of mass murder and theft of sovereignty through the arming of savages. Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report: Occupying Wall Street: Demands VS Deeds, Iran in Crosshairs, BA Report for Oct 19, 2011
19 October 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left This week in Black Agenda Report Occupy Wall Street: What You Can Demand versus What You Must DO by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Occupy Wall Street activists are under some pressures to come up with demands to make… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 