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Black Agenda Report for Oct 23, 2013: Black Homeland Security Chief / Remember Grenada Invasion / Forgiving White People
23 October 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Who is Jeh Johnson, and Why Should Black People Be Hanging Our leads in Shame? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Department of Homeland Security is a secretive, lawless, largely privatized police and surveillance agency, with its own prisons and 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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Persuading the Left Intelligentsia on Syria
Barack Obama’s fervent drive for yet more war carries a number of important lessons in terms of propaganda and the extent to which the “progressive left” literati can be persuaded to jump on the homicidal bandwagon. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 19 July 2013: Trayvon, White Madness, Dog Whistles, More on MHP, Teach For America
19 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Trayvon and White Madness by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “George Zimmerman is no more provably racist in a U.S. court than most white Americans” – which is why a Justice Department action will get nowhere. Whites consider it “reasonable” to believe Continue reading
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Why millions of Egyptians wanted Morsi out By Abayomi Azikiwe
The only real hope for Egypt is the formation of a government of national unity where the progressive forces are at the centre of the emerging political dispensation Continue reading
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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society – 'Brooklyn Babylon — Chapter Five'
Weaving together progressive jazz, early-American popular styles, Balkan folk musics, and the sounds of Brooklyn’s diverse contemporary music scene — from the dance-punk of LCD Soundsystem and experimental indie rock of Dirty Projectors to Missy Mazzoli’s blend of post-rock and quirky minimalism — Argue creates a vividly evocative musical narrative that is at once timeless… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Court-Martial: Secrecy and Injustice on Trial By Stephen Lendman
America honors its worst. It persecutes its best. Manning is heroic. He risked great personal harm. He did so to reveal vital truths. Washington has no right to conceal them. People have a right to know. Continue reading
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Report from Turkey: A Taste of Tahrir at Taksim By Sungur Savran
Istanbul has become a battlefield covered by tear gas. The police, no doubt at the behest of the Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP government, have been attacking protestors in the centre of the city, near Taksim Square, for five consecutive days. Continue reading
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Video: Dan Hind: Democratizing the public sphere should be of acute interest to progressive movements
The interview was made during Dan Hind’s visit to Zagreb and participation in the Balkan Forum of the 6th Subversive Festival 4-18th May 2013 Continue reading
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The Manifesto of the Mediterranean Meeting in Tunisia
1. For more than a quarter of a century, neoliberal capitalist globalization has extended its dominance over the entire planet. The processes launched have accelerated the commodization of the world in favour of a minority and have confiscated people’s citizenship and nations’ sovereignty. They are exacerbating economic insecurity and social inequality in the North and… Continue reading
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Video: Under Thatcher, the Poor Became Poorer
John Weeks: Thatcher and Reagan set out to crush the union movement and assert the power of capital Continue reading
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European Trade Unions and the Struggle for Public Services By Christoph Hermann
The public sector is a key battleground for a progressive trade union strategy and for an alternative to neoliberalism in Europe. On the one hand the existence of a public sector is a continuing example that a not for profit driven production of goods and services is not only possible in the 21st century –… Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (II) By Dmitry MININ
The process already taking shape in the world of consolidating «larger spaces», and the return of the empires of by-gone eras may not, at first glance, seem to respond to the spirit of the times. However, we are living in an age which, in view of its uncertainty in people’s minds, is indiscriminate to such… Continue reading
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15 February 2003: Reconsidering the March that Failed By Ian Sinclair, Alex Doherty
Ten years on from the largest public demonstration in British history NLP’s Alex Doherty spoke to Ian Sinclair, author of the new book The march that shook Blair: An oral history of 15 February 2003. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 31 January 2013: Melissa Harris-Perry Hides Cause of School Closings, Job Discrimination, Mali
31 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report Melissa Harris-Perry Buries The Lead Story on National Wave of Public School Closings By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When print or broadcast news outlets grab a compelling story, only to distract attention away from what the public needs to know, that’s called “burying the lead.” That’s what Continue reading
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