Black Agenda Report
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Black Agenda Report 24 November, 2010: Fascist Skies and Streets / Selling out the Net / Haiti Colonized
24 November, 2010 — BAR Congressman Bobby Rush, the Color of Change and the Color of Truth by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon In the next Congress, Chicago’s Bobby Rush wants to the the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. While there is much to like and admire about… Continue reading
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BA_Report 18 November, 2010: Top 10 Reasons Black Leaders Are Silent on Social Security Attacks — BA Report
18 November, 2010 — BAR Black Agenda Report News, analysis and commentary from the black left Top Ten Reasons Why Black Leaders Are Ignoring President Obama’s Good Cop-Bad Cop Attack on Social Security After a decades-long drumbeat led by the Peterson Foundation, corporate media, Wall Street and their minions of both parties, Social Security, Medicaid… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 30 September, 2010: News, Commentary & Analysis From the Black Left "No Knock Barack" –Stop the Raids at Home & Wars Abroad
30 September, 2010 — BAR President Barack “Midnight Raid” Obama: End Your Wars at Home and Abroad by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Last week’s FBI raids likely signal that the Obama regime has begun a major campaign to criminalize and crush the Left. Think COINTELPRO, 21st century-style. President Obama, the constitutional rights lawyer who claims… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 September, 2010: The Beloved Black Spy / Color of Change vs. Black Caucus
22 September, 2010 — BAR Freedom Rider: Ernest Withers the Informant by BAR editor and senior Margaret Kimberley The trusted “movement” photographer was a spy for J. Edgar Hoover. Ernest Withers apparently cashed in on his close relationship with unsuspecting Black Sixties activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Withers is dead, but not forgiven.… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 August, 2010: Blacks and Economic Crisis / Israel and Obama / Frances' Debt to Haiti
18 August, 2010 — Black Agenda Report The Current Economic Crisis and the Way Out by Anthony Monteiro Wall Street rule has created a kind of “vampire economy,” a parasite on the “real” economy of work and production. Government acts as servant to the plunderers, deeming them “too big to fail” and bailing them out… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 12 August 2010: Time to Fight / Crumbling Empire / Digital Obama'Laid / Wyclef Pawn
12 August, 2010 — Black Agenda Report Make Jesse Jackson, Ben Jealous and Big Labor Own Up to Their Words by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Established Black and labor leaders are compelled by the spiraling economy to at least pretend to make demands on the First Black President. However, “the Obama administration has no… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 August, 2010: Mongrel / White Citizenship / Invisible Negroes / Persecuting Maxine Waters
4 August, 2010 — Black Agenda Report “Mongrels”: Historically, and from Obama’s Mouth by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama behaves as if he has no historical or cultural knowledge of “the nation over which he presides.” The president’s labeling of African Americans as “mongrels” reveals an astounding and fundamental disrespect for Black Americans… Continue reading
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U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The bombs that exploded in Kampala earlier this month, killing 76 people and unleashing a wave of arrests and deportations by the Ugandan regime, are chickens coming home to roost from the U.S.-sponsored war in Somalia. U.S. corporate media routinely fail to note that the Ugandan military and other U.S. African allies are all that… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 21 July, 2010: Black America's Real Priorities / Reparations for Current Racism / Somalia War Expands
21 July, 2010 — Black Agenda Report Tea Partyers, Fox News, “Negativity” Against the President? Are These Really Black America’s Most Pressing Problems? From the established civil rights organizations like the NAACP to legions of elected Democrats and preachers and even people like our good friends at Color of Change, the main activity these days… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 July, 2010: Peniel Joseph, Courtier / Nadir of Black America / Roots of Anti-Black
8 July, 2010 — Black Agenda Report Dr. Peniel Joseph: Peoples Historian or Establishment Courtier? Part Two of Two: Peniel Joseph vs Hubert Harrison on Democracy by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon It’s not that hard to tell an honest people’s intellectual from a brand name huckster. One is engaged in making and propagating… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 June, 2010: No Solution to U.S. Crises / Black Politics Ends / U.S. Social Forum Begins / Fascism Enters Through "Terror" Door
23 June, 2010 — Black Agenda Report America Can’t Solve Crises Because It’s a Company-Owned Town by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Great Gusher in the Gulf is a political, not simply an economic and environmental, crisis. “No amount of public disgust at BP has moved Obama to behave as if he is beholden… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 June, 2010: Killing Children / Peniel Joseph, Corporate Courtier / Good Riddance Artur Davis…
Dr. Peniel Joseph: Peoples Historian or Establishment Courtier? Part One of Two Helping us explain the lineup of the social forces that impact our individual and collective lives is the job of people’s intellectuals. Selling us clever marketing constructs is the job of intellectuals in the service of empire. But what would a loyal and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 June, 2010: U.S. As World Law Enforcer / The Trouble with Arizona / Corporate Death Penalty
Black Agenda Report Could International Criminal Court Deploy U.S. as World Law Enforcer? by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The chief prosecutor of the court that purports to bring the rule of law to the planet is actively campaigning to appoint the United States – ‘the world’s most prolific perpetrator and sponsor of war crimes,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report: 2 June, 2010
Black Agenda Report the journal of African American political thought and action Yes, Obama is “Engaged” – in a Colossal Crime by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Corporate media pretend to measure degrees of presidential “engagement” with the Gulf crisis – an “oceanic version of Chernobyl.” Such conversations are totally disengaged from the overarching reality… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 26 May, 2010: Obama Prepares Iran Attack / Rand Paul's Racism / Aiyanna Jones Murder
Iran Apocalypse Soon Thu, 05/27/2010 – 11:30 – Glen Ford by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Obama administration’s behavior toward Iran is eerily reminiscent of George Bush’s mobilization for war against Iraq in the half-year before the actual invasion. A recently leaked Pentagon directive and a host of other factors are “consistent with preparations… Continue reading
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BLACK AGENDA REPORT 19 May, 2010: the journal of African American political thought and action
Study Shows Blacks Will NEVER Gain Wealth Parity With Whites Under the Current System • Freedom Rider: Elena Kagan is Obama’s Waterloo. And Ours • The Truth Shall Not be Spoken in Arizona • Malcolm X and the “Pan-African Pantheon” • A Police State for Black and Brown New Yorkers • The African Liberation Struggle… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 12 May, 2010: The Supreme Court? Is This Why We Vote For Democrats?
We vote for Democrats, the argument goes, because sending a Republican to the White House means sending racist conservative neanderthals to the Supreme Court. A clinching argument right? What would John McCain do? But is that the right question to ask? And much more… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 May, 2010: Environmental Racism / Obama's Oil Slick / Black-Latino Divide
Black Agenda Report 5 May, 2010 Putting Nukes In A Poor Black GA Town: If A Black President Does It, Is It Still Environmental Racism? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In the weeks since President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors next to an existing pair of… Continue reading
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