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Black Agenda Report 10 July 2013: Obama As Drone Ranger, Tim Wise Stamps Anti-Racist Ghetto Passes for TFA, If Zimmerman Goes Free
10 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The U.S. War Against the World by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The DNA of finance capitalism has foreordained its death – and soon. To forestall that inevitability, the U.S. war machine is prepared to turn out the lights on much of Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for July 3, 2013: MHP, Joy-Ann Reid vs Wikileaks & the Constitution, Obama & Mandela: Dangerous Mythology
3 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Joy Ann Reid, Melissa Harris-Perry as Prosecutor & Cop Go After Snowden, Wikileaks, & the Second Amendment by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Gandhi once said that western civilization would be “a good idea.” So would black journalism. One white TV Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 19 June 2013: Lies of Empire, No Rollback on Mass Incarceration, Obama's Syrian Press Pass and more…
19 June 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Lies of Empire: Don’t Believe a Word They Say by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. reprises Iraq, inventing a WMD threat from Syria. The FBI concocts home-grown terror through stings, while the NSA claims it has secretly saved many Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for June 12, 2013 Clyburn Detached From Reality or Justice, Snowden Litmus Test, Haiti, Detroit
12 June 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Rep. Clyburn: Putting Obama First – Civil Liberties, Peace, Justice, and Reality Last A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Black Congressman James Clyburn’s “gut” tells him that whistleblower Edward Snowden is conspiring with others to “embarrass” President Obama. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 June 2013: Andy Young Still a Shameless Son, Et Tu Bill Thompson, Ben Jealous's Indecent Proposal
5 June 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Shameless Son Andy Young’s “Foreign Aid” Scam Evaporates Amid Charges of Malfeasance, Insider Dealing by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Former civil rights figure and ex-Atlanta mayor Andrew Young took part in a perfectly legal “foreign aid” scheme that might have Continue reading
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BA Report 29 May 2013: Obama's Perpetual Con, Chickens Home To Roost
29 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Perpetual War – and Obama’s Perpetual Con Game by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama’s perpetual scam machine is in high gear – which signals another expansion of war and war-powers accumulation. The president played the reluctant warrior who doesn’t really Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 May 2013: Can Black Politics Be Revived? The Obama "Dog Whistle" & More
22 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Can Black Politics Be Revived? by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s presidency has been disastrous for African Americans, who have been economically crushed and disconnected from their historical roots in social struggle.Political fantasists now urge us to put our faith in Continue reading
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BLACK AGENDA TV – "Black Diamonds”: South Africa’s Black Millionaires Act as Middlemen for Corporate Power
An elite class of Black millionaires has “accumulate wealth at the expense of the vast majority” of South Africa’s people, said community organizer and researcher Molefi Ndlovu, on the latest edition of Black Agenda Television. These “Black Diamonds,” as they are called, have become “a sort of middleman, people who push the envelop for the… 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 for May 8, 2013: Obama Brands Assata Shakur "Most Wanted Terrorist": Support the Movement At Yr Own Risk
8 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Not Your Daddy’s COINTELPRO: Obama Brands Assata Shakur “Most Wanted Terrorist” by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Assata Shakur could not have been named “most wanted terrorist” without the explicit approval of the first black president and his attorney general. In Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for May 1, 2013: NY Times Slanders Black Farmers, Crushed By Capitalism, Death in Somalia
1 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Breitbart Lives? New York Times & Slate.com Do Sloppy Racist Hatchet Job on Black Farmers Lawsuit By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On Friday, April 26, the New York Times, with an assist from the Washington Post property Slate.com committed a journalistic atrocity Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 April 2013: op 10 Things We'll Have After Obama, Everyday Terror
25 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Obama Legacy, Pt 1 of Many: Top Ten Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Barack Obama leaves the White House in January 2017, what will black Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for April 17, 2013: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache, Obama & The Class War
17 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Big Nausea: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Who will defend the indefensible Obama? Answer: There will be fewer and fewer Obamapologists, as each day passes. “For the monumentally dysfunctional Black Misleadership Class, the winding down Continue reading
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Africa: Imperialism’s High Mark of Conquest in the 21st Century By Glen Ford
The US-NATO military curtain has fallen the length and breadth of Africa. “Zimbabwe and tiny Eritrea are among the few nations on the African continent that have not yet been absorbed into the AFRICOM matrix.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda 27 March 2013: Is the Prison Industrial Complex Real? Throwing BRICS at US Empire, Obama Turns Right
27 March 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Black Mass Incarceration —- Is It New? Is It Jim Crow? Is the Prison-Industrial Complex Real? And What Difference Does It Make By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book “New Jim Crow” provided a language to talk about the Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report March 20, 2013: Disaster Capitalism in Detroit, Cypus, Atlanta, US-Israel Axis of Evil
20 March 2013 — This week in Black Agenda Report From Detroit to Cyprus, Banksters in Search of Prey by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Detroit and the people of Cyprus share the same enemy.” The Lords of Capital, who are preparing to snatch chunks of cash straight out of ordinary people’s accounts in Cyprus, to Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 March 2013: Iraq Scorched Earth 10 Years Later, Exposing Democrats, Against Privatization
13 March 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The U.S. Scorched Earth Policy, Ten Years After Iraq Invasion by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In desperation to halt the slide into “non-empire” status, the U.S. makes every government on Earth a potential target for “humanitarian” military intervention. The imposition of Continue reading
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