Black Agenda Report
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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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Decolonizing Our Occupations By Jared Ball
White privilege, the legacy of 500 years of European military and economic suppression of the rest of the planet, is manifest even in movements that purport to be transformational, like Occupy Wall Street. Beneath the politics of economic reordering lie notions that the ‘new’ and overwhelmingly white movement somehow supersedes the centuries-old aspirations of Europe’s… Continue reading
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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
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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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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 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 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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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 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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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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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 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 – Duncan: Katrina “Best Thing That Happened” / Blacks and Net Neutrality
3 February, 2010 — Black Agenda Report How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The utter dependence of our “civil rights” organizations like the NAACP and LULAC upon corporate donations from Big Cable and the telecom industry has caused them to weigh into Continue reading
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Glen Ford: Triumph of right-wing nationalism
Video: Paul Jay speaks with Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report about Obama’s foreign policies. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 