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Media Downplay Class Warfare as 'GOP Victory' By Ben Norton
The fallacy of “neutral,” “both sides” journalism rings loud and clear in corporate media reporting on the Republican Party’s tax plan. The GOP bill, passed by the Senate in the early hours of December 2 and described by major media outlets as a “tax cut,” is in reality an explicit handout to large companies and… Continue reading
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The Election was Stolen – Here’s How By Greg Palast
Starting in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act – a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled states. Continue reading
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Ku Klux Kourt kills King’s Dream Law By Greg Palast
They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King’s grave. The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions of Hispanic and African–American voters by wiping away Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 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 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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ICH 10 September 2012: Exploiting 9/11 for the Benefit of a Few
10 September 2012 — Information Clearing House We Are at War Exploiting 9/11 for the Benefit of a Few. By Johnny Barber Who benefits from the War on Terror and who benefits when America threatens war? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32415.htm Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 August 2012: Obama's Left Apologists / Blasting the GOP / Massacre at Marikana
012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Fletcherism and Fakery: Guarding Obama’s Left Flank by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s key apologists on the Left have released their 2012 position paper, in which “the facts of the Obama presidency – his actual behavior on war, austerity, and civil liberties Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report July 4 2012: GOP Healthcare In Effect / GA Prison Strike / Frisco Stop-and-Frisk
4 July 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama Bound for Mount Rushmore? by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama‘s healthcare plan, now vetted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is the spawn of Republican reactionaries, “based on the principle that people should pay for their own bodily Continue reading
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Israel, the US Elections and the "Jewish Swing Vote"
March 23, 2012 — The Real News Network Israel, the US Elections and the “Jewish Swing Vote” Hawkish stands on Israel taken by US political leaders have less to do with the so-called “Jewish Vote” than they have to do with a few “Zionist Hawks” billionaires March 23, 2012 Continue reading
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Israel, the US Elections and the “Jewish Swing Vote”
March 23, 2012 — The Real News Network Israel, the US Elections and the “Jewish Swing Vote” Hawkish stands on Israel taken by US political leaders have less to do with the so-called “Jewish Vote” than they have to do with a few “Zionist Hawks” billionaires March 23, 2012 Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 February 2012: GOP Goes Off the Cliff / Obama's Tax Scam / Black Children as Terrorists
29 February 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Like Bill Clinton, Obama Drives Crazy Republicans Even Crazier Thu, 03/01/2012 – 16:01 – Bruce A. Dixon by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When a right wing Democrat occupies the White House it does stranger things to Republicans than the Continue reading
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The Right-Wing Id Unzipped By Mike Lofgren
Right-wingers have occasioned much recent comment. Their behavior in the Republican debates has caused even jaded observers to react like an Oxford don stumbling upon a tribe of headhunting cannibals. In those debates where the moderators did not enforce decorum, these right-wingers, the Republican base, behaved with a single lack of dignity. For a group… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 January 2012: Republican Cannibals / Stop, Frisk, Gentrify / Obama Right of Reagan
4 January 2012 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left The GOP Savages Itself, While Wall Street and Backs the Black Guy, Again by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Republican Party presidential campaign has been relegated to a sideshow in the American power game. The white nationalist masses 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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Gerald Celente: 'Revolutions on Wall Street' — RT
With Americans displaying anger with the country in alarming numbers — and protests a part of the Occupy Wall Street movement only getting bigger — are corporations really to blame for the country’s current economic condition? Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 6 July 2011: GOP & Dems = Evil / Teachers Shoot Selves / Africa Stands Up
6 July 2011 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Freedom Rider: The Evil of Two Lessers by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Not only is Obama keeping the country in a perpetual state of war,” but he abandons core Democratic programs “at the 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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The Week at BAGnewsNotes
BAGnews shares an Obama-eye view of the SOTU, examines ongoing devastation in Haiti, and dissects racially-loaded fear mongering from the mainstream media. Continue reading
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