Cornel West
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Black Agenda Report 16 October 2013: Was the Affordable Care Act Worth It? Did the Hip Hop Mayor Sink Detroit?
16 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obamacare VS Single Payer – Top 10 Things the ACA Gave Us VS the Top 10 We Gave Up By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most things have two prices — the price you pay outright, and the opportunity cost, the Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 October 2013: Wall Street Bets Quadrillions / Real Conspiracies / Racism Vanishes
9 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Wall Street Bets a Quadrillion of Everybody Else’s Money by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Americans are driven to panic at the prospect of a technical federal default, later this month – an event that could cost the public treasury billions. But Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Sept 11, 2013: Obama Defeated, Comes Undone / CBC Minions of War / Black Shadow Budget Revealed
11 September 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama’s Humiliating Defeat by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When presidents fail, it is a public spectacle. In his rush into unprovoked war against Syria, President Obama overplayed his hand. Shortly before he appeared on television on Wednesday, “Obama’s handlers advised him Continue reading
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Black Agenda TV, August 26, 2013
26 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report WATCH THE LATEST EDITION OF BLACK AGENDA TV Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 May 2013: The More Effective Evil, When Prosecutors Are Crimimals
15 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The More Effective Evil by Your World News For some time now, Black Agenda Report has been calling the Obama administration not the lesser of two but the more effective evil, able to enact measures that white Democrats or Republicans could not Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 September 2012: What Obama Has Wrought / Dem's True Colors / Dubois: Why I Won't Vote
5 September 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left What Obama Has Wrought by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The meticulously scripted spectacles of the two corporate party conventions are very poor backdrops for clear thinking – but luckily, the ordeals are almost over. What remains after the tents Continue reading
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BA Report – US Africa Offensive / Occupy FCC / War Criminals / Decolonize Occupations – November 30
30 November 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Offensive by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As the U.S. and its NATO allies move southward to further consolidate their grip on Africa, following the seizure of Libya and its vast oil fields, 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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Video: Cornel West at Freedom Plaza – Washington DC on Corporate Greed & the Military Industrial Complex
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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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