Glen Ford
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Video: Growing Up Black in American Apartheid – Glen Ford Pt1
23 October 2013 — The Real News Network On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the North living with his white activist mother, and living in the Deep South with his black deejay father. (inc. Continue reading
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Video: Bill Black and Glen Ford on Presidential Debate #2
Is there a significant difference between the candidates on foreign or domestic policy? Continue reading
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The U.S. Empire’s Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism
American racism will always cripple its ability to occupy non-white countries, whose people the U.S. fundamentally disrespects. “The United States cannot help but be a serial abuser of the rights of the people it occupies, especially those who are thought of as non-white, because it is a thoroughly racist nation.” The latest atrocities in Afghanistan… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report February 15 2012: Black MisLeading Looter Class / Warriors for Empire / Grammy Racism
15 February 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Giving Away the Store: The Black Political Class as Bystanders and Looters Dr. King once expressed the belief that we might be “integrating into a burning house.” Even that might not be so bad, one supposes, if we were Continue reading
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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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NATO’s Depraved Disregard for Libyan Civilian Casualties By Glen Ford
The Times recent concern over Libyan victims of NATO bombing lacks credibility, given its wildly biased reporting of the war. ‘Thousands of black Libyan citizens and African migrant workers are dead at least partially as a result of western media lies.’ Continue reading
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Somalis Under Relentless Drone Attack as U.S. Tightens Military Grip on Continent
Africa, under President Obama, is an expanding theater of war for the United States. There are few points on the African map where the U.S. military does not operate, independently, through proxies, or by agreement with local governments and militaries. AFRICOM has penetrated the armed forces of the continent to a degree no single European… Continue reading
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BA_Report, 5 October 2011: Democracy Now!'s Libya Debacle / Occupy Wall Street & DC's Freedom Plaza
5 October 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left Are Democracy Now!’s Libyan Correspondents Feeding Us the State Department and Pentagon Line on Libya? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Is the independent media movement’s flagship radio-TV show Democracy Now! Pushing the State Department and Pentagon line Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 24 August 2011: Impotent Black Caucus / Corporate MLK Memorial / Heroic Libyan Soldiers
24 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left CBC: Impotent, Irrelevant, and Tied to the President in 2012, Even If Obama is the Black Herbert Hoover by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why does the Congressional Black Caucus, forty of the most senior members of the Continue reading
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Obama’s Responsibility to Protect is a License to Kill By Glen Ford
Believing the Libya assault to have been a shining success, the United States will feel confident in launching new aggressions under the insidious rubric of R2P – Responsibility to Protect. The 2004 invasion and of Haiti was the precedent, ‘when the United Nations Secretary General lent his seal of approval to the occupation and endorsed… Continue reading
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British Jealous of America’s Savage Police By Glen Ford
Given the extreme violence of American life, when compared to other rich nations, why would the Brits consider for even an instant emulating the U.S. criminal justice system? What could American cops teach them? Continue reading
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Black Britain Revolts: What If It Had Been New York? By Glen Ford
Britain’s Black rebellion shocked the nation, but has not produced the kind of carnage that routinely accompanies urban unrest in the United States. ‘Had London’s current disturbances occurred on a similar scale in New York City, with outbreaks across the various boroughs, the police would have unleashed a bloodbath.’ Which is not to say that… 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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Obama Claims To Reset The Imperial Clock By Glen Ford
Since when does the leader of an empire voluntarily “reset” to become a non-interfering power? Never. President Obama’s speech, last week, was mainly geared to maintaining U.S. supremacy in the Mideast and North Africa following the shock of the Arab Reawakening. Continue reading
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Killing Gaddafi’s Grandbabies By Glen Ford
When the U.S. and Europeans needed a way to get on the ‘right’ side of the Arab Awakening – and thereby crush it – they chose to re-demonize Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi as the evil from which the Euro-Americans would rescue North Africa. ‘Gaddafi was perfect, having long existed in cartoon form for western consumption.’ Continue reading
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Obama’s Imperial Twist: “Humanitarian” Regime Change in Libya by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
President Obama demanded regime change in Libya more than three weeks ago, but now acts as if that’s not his policy. He will use the assault on Muamar Khadafi’s forces to introduce so-called “humanitarian intervention” as an anchor of the Obama Doctrine. Regime change will remain a basic tool, while the “humanitarian” ruse expands imperial… Continue reading
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The American Dilemma in Libya: To Bomb, Invade, Partition, Or All of the Above By Glen Ford
‘R2P’ – Responsibility to Protect – is the Obama regime’s favored formula for pouring mud in the otherwise clear waters of international law. The philosophy – actually, a political position seeking legal recognition – amounts to a kind of super-power judicial waiver couched in the language of nobles oblige, the obligation of the strong to… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 February, 2011: Obama & Rahm Emanuel, Daley's Gifts to Chicago and the Nation, The Struggle in Wisconsin
23 February, 2011 — BAR News, analysis and commentary from the black left Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama & Neo-Liberalism are the Daleys’ Gifts to Chicago and the Nation. Thanks. by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Chicago’s Daley regime was a half century orgy of arrogance, racism and plunder. Thanks to President Obama, it not Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 26 January, 2011: Obama-GOP Consensus / Race & Class War / Baby Doc's Threat
26 January, 2011 — Black Agenda Report News, Analysis and Commentary from the Black Left The Obama/GOP Consensus by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As far as President Obama is concerned, the state of the Union is now in harmony, with the merging of Republican politics and his own. The new consensus is an austere Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 December, 2010: BAR Limited Holiday Edition – Dec 29
29 December, 2010 — BAR BAR will return in Full Strength on Wednesday, January 5 Happy New Year!! Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey Haiti: No Sovereignty, No Justice Haiti has been a less than sovereign nation since 1825, when France saddled the young Black Continue reading
The New Dark Age 