Barack Obama or Cynthia McKinney -- Who Represents Black America Toward Palestine, Israel and the Middle East?
Submitted by Bruce A. Dixon on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 09:48
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon
Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has just returned from an Israeli jail where she was briefly imprisoned, along with human rights activists from several nations, for her second attempt at publicly running the brutal US-Israeli blockade trying to bring coloring books, food and medical supplies. Why are the US and Israel imposing this collective punishment upon 1.5 million civilians. How does McKinney's stand match up against that of our first black president, the most powerful man in the world who calls it a "humantarian crisis" but will do nothing about it? And how do they both stack up against the legacy of Dr. King?
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Submitted by Glen Ford on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 22:46Freedom Rider: Silence on Cynthia McKinney
Submitted by Margaret Kimberley on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 22:45
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyEshu’s blues:The Obamamas and the Obapapas
Submitted by michael hureaux... on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 22:44
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perezThe Shrinking American Empire
Submitted by Glen Ford on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 18:41
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordAfrica Rejects Criminal Court Order on Sudan, Moves Toward Unity
Submitted by Glen Ford on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 01:09
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordU.S. Allies on the Ropes in Somalia
Submitted by Glen Ford on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 01:04
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordMichael Jackson and the Piranhas of the Media
Submitted by John Maxwell on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 00:58
by John MaxwellThe Persecution of Michael Jackson
Submitted by Ishmael Reed on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 00:23The self-serving infotainment networks have a new product to take the place of news and real programming for at least the next week. The trashing and rehashing of Michael Jackson, his family, legal and other troubles, his art and his life will be served up to us by corporate media who have no responsibility to truth, to art, to anything living or dead except profit and the protection of whatever lies they might have told previously.
ShareThisCynthia McKinney Returns to U.S. After Ordeal on High Seas and Israeli Prison
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 08:39
Former Georgia Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney arrives at JFK Airport early Tuesday morning. McKinney, known as prisoner #88794 during her confinement at Ramle prison since Tuesday, was arrested along wih 20 other activists of the Free Gaza Movment when the Israeli Navy seized their vessel, Human Spirit, on the high seas. The boat was enroute from Cyprus to Gaza bearing humanitarian aid to Palestinian victims of the two-year-old Israeli blockade and military assault on the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million people.
McKinney and other Free Gaza members had refused to sign documents that were written in Hebrew and were said to be admissions to having entered Israel illegally. McKinney points out that she and here colleagues had no intention of entering Israel – their mission was to deliver humanitarian supplies, including cement and toys for children.
Freedom Rider: Dangerous Progressives
Submitted by Margaret Kimberley on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 13:00
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyThe Election of Barack Obama Has Paralyzed Progressive Forces in US Politics
Submitted by Glen Ford on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 12:59If you don't see the video above, click here.
This speech delivered by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford at African Liberation Day 2009, highlights the paralysis of black and progressive leadership and the dead end in which progressive forces in the U.S. find themselves.
For as long as anybody can recall, the dominant stream in black politics has been about our right to decide and determine our own fates and the fates of our communities, to be answerable to our people and to hold each other answerable. Another stream in black politics is just as old, seeks escape from the vestiges of slavery by proving that we are worthy and willing to assimilate into the dominant society without trying to alter it in any fundamental sense. It's easy to see which of these strains our president belongs.
Obama's Public Education Policy: Privatization, Charters, Mass Firings, Neighborhood Destabilization
Submitted by Bruce A. Dixon on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:01
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Last weekend in Chicago, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered the keynote address at Rainbow PUSH's annual conference and education roundtable. Duncan is the premiere executor of corporate instpired policies that have closed dozens of neighborhood public schools in Chicago without substantially improving educational outcomes and at vast cost to neighborhood stability and the careers of hundreds of good teachers. But are African American organizations standing up for their own interests, for public education? Or are we paralyzed because the corporate policies issue from the administration of a Black President?
ShareThisGiving Honduras the Haiti Treatment
Submitted by Glen Ford on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 22:51
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