Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report 6 July 2011: GOP & Dems = Evil / Teachers Shoot Selves / Africa Stands Up
6 July 2011 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Freedom Rider: The Evil of Two Lessers by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Not only is Obama keeping the country in a perpetual state of war,” but he abandons core Democratic programs “at the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 June 2011: Charters Divide Blacks / McKinney in Libya / Lupe Fiasco and Obama
15 June 2011 — Black Agenda Report How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Charter school supporters are denouncing the NAACP for filing suit, along with the teachers union, against preferential – separate but unequal – treatment of charter schools in New York City.… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 8 June 2011: Fake Prison Reform – The Real Deal on Libya – Obama's Black Critics
8 June 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left What Fake Reform of the Prison State Looks Like: Georgia’s Criminal Justice Reform Commission by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In Georgia, where prisoners staged a brief and courageous strike for their human rights last December, the state’s… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 May 2011: Cornel West's Mistake / McKinney in Libya / Obama and Blacks
25 May 2011 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left Freedom Rider: Israel Reigns Supreme by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The corporate media pretend that President Obama is standing up to Israel, when in fact the rogue state remains the “third rail” of U.S. politics. “Israel’s untouchability… Continue reading
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How Cornel West Did the Obamites a Favor By Glen Ford
Unable to defend the indefensible, Black Obama supporters have been ‘rendered all but mute on issues of policy.’ They got their chance to reenter the political conversation when Princeton professor and media celebrity Cornel West, a former Obama supporter who is now a harsh critic, speculated on the racial workings of the president’s brain. That… Continue reading
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The "Make Me Do It" Myth, Obama's Offensive, Black Moms Jailed — BA Report for May 18, 2011
18 May 2011 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Harry Belafonte Explodes the Presidential “Make Me Do It” Myth A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Does President Obama really want us to “make him do it,” to organize and agitate and create the conditions that… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 May 2011: Obama Killing Spree / Brazil in Haiti / Obama Needs Birthers
4 May 2011 — BAR – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Osama, Obama and Bush: Apt Comparisons, Missed Opportunities by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Illustration by Leon Kuhn. More of his work at http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk/ This weekend the White House announced the extrajudicial killing of Osama Bin Laden, and the secret disposal… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 6 April 2011: Lynch Law in Libya / Black Wall Around Obama / Thinking Post-Obama
6 April 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Lynch Law and Summary Executions in Rebel-Held Libya by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “The world’s most imperial-dependent, ill-disciplined and whining ‘liberation movement’ is still blaming black ‘mercenaries’ and soldiers from Chad for its failures in the field.” Chad,… Continue reading
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Obama’s Imperial Twist: “Humanitarian” Regime Change in Libya by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
President Obama demanded regime change in Libya more than three weeks ago, but now acts as if that’s not his policy. He will use the assault on Muamar Khadafi’s forces to introduce so-called “humanitarian intervention” as an anchor of the Obama Doctrine. Regime change will remain a basic tool, while the “humanitarian” ruse expands imperial… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 March 2011 – The Big Black AT&T Sellout / Libya "Humanitarian" Regime Change
23 March 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left NNPA: Black America’s Watchdogs, Or Lapdogs For AT&T? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On March 21 AT&T announced its intent to gobble up T-Mobile and control, with Verizon, three quarters of the US cellular market and most… Continue reading
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The American Dilemma in Libya: To Bomb, Invade, Partition, Or All of the Above By Glen Ford
‘R2P’ – Responsibility to Protect – is the Obama regime’s favored formula for pouring mud in the otherwise clear waters of international law. The philosophy – actually, a political position seeking legal recognition – amounts to a kind of super-power judicial waiver couched in the language of nobles oblige, the obligation of the strong to… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 2 March, 2011: End of Obama-ism, US Lunge for Libyan Oil, Anti-Black Psy-Ops
It becomes clearer by the day that “Obama-ism, rather than providing the new Democratic dispensation that delusional progressives and masses of Blacks imagined, is a straight-line path to defeat.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 February, 2011: Obama & Rahm Emanuel, Daley's Gifts to Chicago and the Nation, The Struggle in Wisconsin
23 February, 2011 — BAR News, analysis and commentary from the black left Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama & Neo-Liberalism are the Daleys’ Gifts to Chicago and the Nation. Thanks. by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Chicago’s Daley regime was a half century orgy of arrogance, racism and plunder. Thanks to President Obama, it not… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 February, 2011: Obama As Pharoah / Blacks and Egyptians / GW, Godfather of Slavery
16 February, 2011 — BAR News, analysis and commentary from the black left The New Black Politics: All We Want Is A Black Royal Family, Not Jobs, Peace, or Justice by BAR Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon With record black unemployment, unjust wars and torture continuing, it’s time to ask, Can we let a black… Continue reading
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Obamanomics, Reagan's Demons, the Reagan We Remember: BA Report for Feb 9, 2011
After two years in office, Obama clearly has nothing to offer the Democratic Party “base,” but arrives at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce bearing impressive gifts. “The president’s groveling performance at the Chamber shows him, once again, to be a corporate facilitator who doesn’t even bother to polish up his old con game.” This is… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 26 January, 2011: Obama-GOP Consensus / Race & Class War / Baby Doc's Threat
26 January, 2011 — Black Agenda Report News, Analysis and Commentary from the Black Left The Obama/GOP Consensus by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As far as President Obama is concerned, the state of the Union is now in harmony, with the merging of Republican politics and his own. The new consensus is an austere… Continue reading
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A More Effective Imperial CEO By Bruce A. Dixon
“We are here because some of us and our friends voted for change. What did we get? What we got was a more effective imperial CEO.” — Bruce A. Dixon of Black Agenda Report Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 December, 2010: BAR Limited Holiday Edition – Dec 29
29 December, 2010 — BAR BAR will return in Full Strength on Wednesday, January 5 Happy New Year!! Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey Haiti: No Sovereignty, No Justice Haiti has been a less than sovereign nation since 1825, when France saddled the young Black… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 December, 2010: Latest GA Prison Strike / Evil Twins: Clinton, Obama / FBI Entraps YOU
15 December, 2010 — BAR GA Prison Inmate Strike Enters New Phase, Prisoners Demand Human Rights, Education, Wages For Work Story by Bruce A. Dixon, audio interview by Glen Ford Georgia prisoners who began a courageous, peaceful and nonviolent protest strike for educational opportunities, wages for their work, medical care and human rights have captured… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 8 December, 2010: Obama: GOP Interlocutor / Celebrating Secession / Tyler Perry's Crimes
With Obama in the White House, who needs Republicans? / Obama’s FCC Sells Out on Network Neutrality / The Racist Maligning of North Korea and Asians in General / Wikileaks Continue reading
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