Black Agenda Report
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BA_Report, 5 October 2011: Democracy Now!'s Libya Debacle / Occupy Wall Street & DC's Freedom Plaza
5 October 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left Are Democracy Now!’s Libyan Correspondents Feeding Us the State Department and Pentagon Line on Libya? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Is the independent media movement’s flagship radio-TV show Democracy Now! Pushing the State Department and Pentagon line… Continue reading
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Obama and Bush Administrations Complicit With Bankers’ in Massive Foreclosure Scheme
A new report shows the Obama administration has been just as protective as its Republican predecessor of bank robo-signing: forging the signatures of millions of homeowners in order to foreclose their homes. ‘Theft and fraud were standard practice on Wall Street, and both the Bush and Obama administrations knew it, and protected the criminals.’ Obama… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio 14 September 2011: Fauntroy's Libya Massacres Story: No Time for Teasing
Rev. Walter Fauntroy has so far failed to follow up on his abbreviated tale of witnessing European special forces troops on an orgy of massacres and beheadings in Libya. The former DC congressional delegate’s story loses credibility with each day that he withholds further information. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 24 August 2011: Impotent Black Caucus / Corporate MLK Memorial / Heroic Libyan Soldiers
24 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left CBC: Impotent, Irrelevant, and Tied to the President in 2012, Even If Obama is the Black Herbert Hoover by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why does the Congressional Black Caucus, forty of the most senior members of the… Continue reading
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The Libyan Soldier: The True Heroes of NATO’s War By Glen Ford
NATO has proven it has the capacity to kill thousands of Libyan soldiers from the skies, but it cannot ‘convey honor and legitimacy’ to the rebels under its killer wings. ‘They are little more than extras for imperial theater, a mob that traveled to battle under the protective umbrella of American full spectrum dominance of… Continue reading
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Obama’s Responsibility to Protect is a License to Kill By Glen Ford
Believing the Libya assault to have been a shining success, the United States will feel confident in launching new aggressions under the insidious rubric of R2P – Responsibility to Protect. The 2004 invasion and of Haiti was the precedent, ‘when the United Nations Secretary General lent his seal of approval to the occupation and endorsed… Continue reading
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British Jealous of America’s Savage Police By Glen Ford
Given the extreme violence of American life, when compared to other rich nations, why would the Brits consider for even an instant emulating the U.S. criminal justice system? What could American cops teach them? Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 August 2011: Save Yourselves, Not Obama / Black Libya City Falls / Prez Bachmann
17 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left It’s Too Late To Save The Obama Administration. Can We Still Save Ourselves? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Two and half years into the Obama presidency, some of us spend more time mooning over pretty pictures of… Continue reading
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Black Britain Revolts: What If It Had Been New York? By Glen Ford
Britain’s Black rebellion shocked the nation, but has not produced the kind of carnage that routinely accompanies urban unrest in the United States. ‘Had London’s current disturbances occurred on a similar scale in New York City, with outbreaks across the various boroughs, the police would have unleashed a bloodbath.’ Which is not to say that… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 August 2011: Barack's Satan Sandwich / Obama Slipping / Black Brits Revolt
10 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report: News, commentary and analysis from the black left Barack’s Satan Sandwich Only The First Course: Will We Re-Hire the Chef in 2012 Anyway? Bruce A. Dixon By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver pronounced the debt deal a Satan Sandwich. The CBC is conducting its… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 3 August 2011: Obama Catastrophe / Ruling Class Victory / McKinney Eyewitness Libya
3 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left Ruin-Nation: The Obama Catastrophe by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two and a half years of waging war against the Left half of his own party, while seeking a “Grand Consensus” with the GOP, President Obama has finally set… Continue reading
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Eye Witness Libya's Atlanta Report Back, July 24, 2011 With Cynthia McKinney Parts 1-7
25 July 2011 — Black Agenda Report Eye Witness Libya’s Atlanta Report Back, July 24, 2011 With Cynthia McKinney Black Agenda Radio Commentaries Yesterday at 20:1920110724 This event was held at the Shrine of the Black Madonna in the West End neighborbood of Atlanta. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Video Update — Two More Eyewitness Libya Videos
Although US drones are flying in, and US bombs are falling from Libyan skies, the president insists that the US is not waging war in Libya. The facts however, say otherwise. This week’s Black Agenda Video update includes two members of US citizen fact finding delegations, the Bay Area’s Dedon Kamathi and Atlanta’s Lucy Grider… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 July 2011: Obama Sells Out Soc Sec / Somalia Worst World Crisis / Atlanta Cheating
13 July 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama’s “Big Deal”: Wallowing with Pigs in Search of a Grand Center-Right Coalition by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama is salivating at the prospect of concluding his Big Deal with the Republicans, the one that will move… Continue reading
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World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia: So U.S. Sends in the Marines and Drones
A U.S. Marine task force is about to be deployed in the war against Somalia, where American drones are stepping up their predations. For the second time in four years, U.S. aggression threatens the lives of multitudes in the Horn of Africa. ‘A United Nations spokesman describes the food and refugee emergency in Somalia as… Continue reading
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5 Videos: Black Agenda Video Update — Eyewitness Libya, Confronting the Black Caucus on Libya
We usually send weekly updates on Wednesday. But events are moving quickly and the tide of corporate media disinformation is rising. The illegal and unjust war in Libya, along with similar adventures in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Pakistan grind on. A handful of US citizens, among them former GA congresswoman Cynthia McKinney have gone… Continue reading
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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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