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Libya: Terrorists Are Us? By Felicity Arbuthnot
The irony of a half African, Nobel Peace Prize winner, initiating bombing in Africa, instead of using his roots to nurture shoots of understanding and co-operation, is a fairly mind stretching irony. But why spoil an unbroken track record and become the only US., President in modern history not to attack a few countries who… Continue reading
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The killing of Osama bin Laden By Patrick Martin and Alex Lantier
Obama’s speech and the press commentary was clearly an attempt to rally public support for wars that have become deeply unpopular. Obama asked Americans to ‘think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed.’ Media commentators repeatedly expressed the hope that the killing of bin… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 6 April 2011: Lynch Law in Libya / Black Wall Around Obama / Thinking Post-Obama
6 April 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Lynch Law and Summary Executions in Rebel-Held Libya by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “The world’s most imperial-dependent, ill-disciplined and whining ‘liberation movement’ is still blaming black ‘mercenaries’ and soldiers from Chad for its failures in the field.” Chad,… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Yemen’s Useful Tyranny – The Forgotten History of Britain’s ‘Dirty War’: Part 1
All revolutions are not equal. While Libya is deemed worthy of the West’s ‘humanitarian intervention’ – express delivery by B-2 bomber, F-15 fighter and cruise missile – protesters elsewhere have been denied such Western largesse. In response to the atrocities in Yemen, for example, Obama has sent mere words. The reason, as one astute commentator… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Noble’ War In Libya Part 2
Like a skilled conjuror, the media slips effortlessly, and without explanation, between the obvious need for ‘positive engagement’ and the obvious need to ‘confront tyranny’. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 3 March 2011 by William Blum: Libya and The Holy Triumvirate
Libya is engaged in a civil war. The United States and the European Union and NATO — The Holy Triumvirate — are intervening, bloodily, in a civil war. To overthrow Moammar Gaddafi. 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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MAJOR, LONG PLANNED, US GEOSTRATEGIC OFFENSIVE FOR DOMINATION OF AFRICA
Objective of our policy toward Black Africa is to prevent social upheavals which could radically change the political situation throughout the area. – Obama Continue reading
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Libya Mostly Independent Media Newslinks 5-6 March 2011
6 March 2011 — creative-i.info 6 March 2011 Will Qaddafi be physically Eliminated? The Independent: SAS unit ‘held by Libyan rebels’ Racism rears its ugly face in Libya uprising live on TV The Independent: Britain offers covert help to Libyan rebels as fighting kills further 100 BBC: MoD silent on SAS capture report BBC: Gaddafi… Continue reading
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As things fall apart By William Bowles
Are you not amazed by the total synchronicity that exists between the media and the political class? The idea that the US has absolutely no business sticking its nose into other country’s affairs has been airbrushed out of the situation completely. Elsewhere of course the real reason will be articulated, namely ‘US strategic interests’ but… Continue reading
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A More Effective Imperial CEO By Bruce A. Dixon
“We are here because some of us and our friends voted for change. What did we get? What we got was a more effective imperial CEO.” — Bruce A. Dixon of Black Agenda Report 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
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Black Agenda Report 15 December, 2010: Latest GA Prison Strike / Evil Twins: Clinton, Obama / FBI Entraps YOU
15 December, 2010 — BAR GA Prison Inmate Strike Enters New Phase, Prisoners Demand Human Rights, Education, Wages For Work Story by Bruce A. Dixon, audio interview by Glen Ford Georgia prisoners who began a courageous, peaceful and nonviolent protest strike for educational opportunities, wages for their work, medical care and human rights have captured… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 8 December, 2010: Obama: GOP Interlocutor / Celebrating Secession / Tyler Perry's Crimes
With Obama in the White House, who needs Republicans? / Obama’s FCC Sells Out on Network Neutrality / The Racist Maligning of North Korea and Asians in General / Wikileaks Continue reading
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WikiLeaks releases thousands of classified cables — RT
Over 250,000 classified document sent from American embassies to Washington have been leaked on the Internet, in spite of warnings from the Obama administration. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 24 November, 2010: Fascist Skies and Streets / Selling out the Net / Haiti Colonized
24 November, 2010 — BAR Congressman Bobby Rush, the Color of Change and the Color of Truth by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon In the next Congress, Chicago’s Bobby Rush wants to the the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. While there is much to like and admire about… Continue reading
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BA_Report 18 November, 2010: Top 10 Reasons Black Leaders Are Silent on Social Security Attacks — BA Report
18 November, 2010 — BAR Black Agenda Report News, analysis and commentary from the black left Top Ten Reasons Why Black Leaders Are Ignoring President Obama’s Good Cop-Bad Cop Attack on Social Security After a decades-long drumbeat led by the Peterson Foundation, corporate media, Wall Street and their minions of both parties, Social Security, Medicaid… Continue reading
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Ruling on Behalf of Wall Street’s “Super Rich”: The Financial End Time has Arrived By Prof. Michael Hudson
Now that President Obama is almost celebrating his bipartisan willingness to renew the tax cuts for the super-rich enacted under George Bush ten years ago, it is time for Democrats to ask themselves how strongly they are willing to oppose an administration that looks like Bush-Cheney III. Is this what they expected by Mr. Obama’s… Continue reading
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New Obama Order Standardizes and Limits Pseudo-Secrets
President Obama’s new Executive Order on “Controlled Unclassified Information” issued today builds on recommendations from open government groups and the findings of the National Security Archive’s 2006 audit of “Pseudo-Secrets” that uncovered 28 different and uncoordinated policies on marking and restricting official unclassified information. Continue reading
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Obama/Donilon: Staring down the generals By Eric Walberg
In the past 10 days, 150 NATO-bound oil tankers were torched in Pakistan, mostly by Taliban but some apparently by their own drivers, who siphoned and sold the fuel and then destroyed the evidence of their theft. Win-win for locals, none of whom are naive enough to believe killing more of their brothers is a… Continue reading
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