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Black Agenda Report 6 March 2013: Chavez / Bradley Manning / Sequestration / Congo / Haiti
6 March 2013 00 — Black Agenda Report Hugo Chavez: New World Rising by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The great Bolivarian is gone – which means the U.S. will soon escalate its destabilization campaign against his country. “Washington hopes that Venezuelan socialism cannot survive without Chavez.” But the U.S. cannot roll back the movement Continue reading
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Fleets of Drones Descend on Africa By Glen Ford
U.S. drone bases are multiplying on the African continent. Niger has just “given the green light to accepting American surveillance drones on its soil”; neighboring Burkina Faso already has one; two new drone facilities are opening in Ethiopia and the Seychelles; and UN peacekeepers in Congo want U.S. drones. Drones have terrorized Somalia from AFRICOM’s… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 February 2013: Why Nobody's Listening to Black Folk, Sniper Gets Sniped, New Black Agenda TV Episode
7 February 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why Nobody’s Paying Attention to Black Folks These Days by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Don’t expect President Obama to offer any measures targeted to the Black economic crisis in his State of the Union address. He’s under absolutely no pressure to Continue reading
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Historical Roots of the US “War on Terrorism”: The Pathology of a Single Superpower. NATO and Beyond
This incisive and carefully researched article originally published by Covert Action Quarterly in 1999 sheds light with tremendous foresight on the historical evolution of the US led “War on Terrorism” and the articulation of what has been described as “Global NATO”. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report December 5, 2012 — Shameless Susan Rice Supporters, Latinos Lead the Way
6 December 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Shameless Vacuity of Susan Rice’s Black Boosters by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Africa doesn’t matter, U.S. wars don’t matter, nothing matters to the Black Misleadership Class except the sickly prestige of basking in the (distant) glow of power. Susan Rice’s “Black boosters embrace Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 28, 2012 — Susan Rice to Oversee Congo Genocide? FCC to OK Media Consolidation? Why White folks Get Mad…
28 November 20912 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report A Second Wave of Genocide Looms in Congo, with Susan Rice on Point Wed, 11/28/2012 – 13:14 — Glen Ford by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Susan Rice is a woman of ghastly accomplishments: suppressor of the facts on genocide in Congo, and Continue reading
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Humanitarian Coverup: Why is Obama Silent Over the New Congo War? By Shamus Cooke
The last Congo war that ended in 2003 killed 5.4 million people, the worst humanitarian disaster since World War II. The killing was directly enabled by international silence over the issue; the war was ignored and the causes obscured because governments were backing groups involved in the fighting. Now a new Congo war has begun… Continue reading
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ICH 25 November 2012: Why Israel Didn’t Win
25 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Why Israel Didn’t Win By Adam Shatz The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. – The Palestinians understand that they are no longer facing Israel on their own: Israel, not Hamas, is the Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 24, 2012 — Melissa Harris-Perry VS Alice Walker, Romney & Obama as Imperial Lodge Brothers
17 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Melissa Harris-Perry VS Alice Walker: Sista Courtier VS the Real Sista Citizen By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Professor Melissa Harris-Perry has an MSNBC show and a byline in The Nation as “Sister Citizen.” But what would the output of a Continue reading
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BA_Report 27 June 2012: Re-Open Cointelpro / ATL Plantation Politics / Race Talk Taboo
26 June 2012 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left Black On The Old Plantation A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Metro Atlanta is now the second largest concentration of African-descended people in North America. But with civil rights organizations firmly in corporate pockets, it’s still Continue reading
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Kony 2012 and America's Conquest of Africa's Mineral Wealth By Nile Bowie
Although the Lord’s Resistance Army has been accused of recruiting child soldiers and conducting crimes against humanity throughout its two-decade campaign for greater autonomy against the Ugandan government, the group is presently comprised of less than four hundred soldiers [3] and remains a questionable threat. Meanwhile, China’s deepening economic engagement in Africa and its crucial… Continue reading
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Aleela
The tantalum for the capacitors and cobalt for the batteries which power our cell phones are often mined by children in Congo making twenty cents per day. Those children come from a society where rape of women and girls is endemic. Continue reading
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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
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The Son of Africa claims a continent’s crown jewels By John Pilger
On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only ‘engage’ for ‘self-defence’, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 10, 2011
10 September 2011 — Stop NATO Hydrological Warfare, Oil And Gas, Arms: Geostrategic Underpinnings Of Libyan War NATO Pursues Cyberwarfare Partnership With India Against China Ukraine: Consolidating NATO’s Control Of Black Sea U.S. AFRICOM To Lead Natural Fire Multinational Exercise In Tanzania Congo: The Heart Of Western Darkness The Pentagon Embraces Australia Turkey Threatens Naval 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 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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Israeli Occupation Archive has posted 6 new items 19 July, 2010
19 July, 2010 — Israeli Occupation Archive Israel eyes ‘legal’ takeover of abandoned East Jerusalem properties Netanyahu: “At that moment I actually stopped the Oslo accord” (video) Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord Israeli doctors in Congo to aid burn victims get slammed for occupation Gideon Levy: Tricky Continue reading
The New Dark Age 