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U.S. Prison Gulag vs. Global Human Rights

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 22:37 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

In a whitewash of monumental proportions, the Obama administration refused to acknowledge vast racial disparities at every stage of the U.S. criminal justice system. "In sheer numbers, the American prison gulag dwarfs that of every other nation, and its racial composition is irrefutable proof that the American state functions as the principal enforcer of the color bar in U.S. society."

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Reclaiming the Dream and Brand Obama

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 22:33 — Dr. Jared A. Ball

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR columnist Jared Ball

A stroll through Al Sharpton's recent MLK-themed demonstration, in Washington,DC, was anything but a walk down memory lane. Gone were theprincipled voices of yesterday. "None were there to challengeObama, whose presidency has so far been an absolute reversal of anyof King's most pronounced political concerns; an end to poverty, warand capitalism as an unchecked economic system."

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New Orleans Black Activists Denounce Obama and Shame Misleadership Class

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 22:27 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

When it comes to making President Obama accountable for his own wars, his own corporate pandering, his own trillion-dollar bank bailouts, the Black misleadership class becomes mute. But poor people's activists in New Orleans had no problem denouncing the president's housing policies, which ensure that "fat cats like Warren Buffett and huge private banking institutions will inherit the nation's public housing properties."

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U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq is Fiction

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 07:22 — Glen Ford

combat vs noncombat troops in Iraq

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Embedded corporate media rose to new heights of non-journalism as, on command, they conjured up an end to (America's) Iraq War based on nothing more than a change of nomenclature. Combat soldiers woke up one morning as "advise and assist" troops whose "bases" were magically transformed into "fortified compounds." Still, the U.S. empire has no intention of leaving Iraq - especially when there are so many available euphemisms for staying.

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UN Report Whitewashes Mass Murder, Ecocide by Shell Oil and Nigerian Government

Wed, 08/25/2010 - 06:42 — Glen Ford

Nigerian satellite photos

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

For more than 50 years, the Royal Dutch Shell corporation and its Nigerian government partners have inflicted the world's worst oil pollution on the people of the Niger River Delta. Now, the United Nations squanders its dwindling prestige to help whitewash the vast environmental and human rights crime. According to a UN report, the Nigerian people are to blame for soaking the Delta in 9 to 13 million barrels of oil.

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Obama Snarls at the Left, But Winks at the Right

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:19 — Glen Ford

Winking President

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Obama's press secretary's assault on the Left also represents a presidential "wink" to the Right, "reassuring the corporate world that Obama will not yield an inch to the Left in this election season." Once again, the president shows that he regards the Left as either his flunkies - or his enemy.

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Housing Policy? Obama Leaves It To The Bankers

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:06 — Glen Ford

Freedom for All Political Prisonerst

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

President Obama is pulling the same stunt with the housing crisis as he did with health care: packing his public policy events with corporate operatives while excluding the grassroots and progressives. "Only the bankers, the stock speculators and the academics that are paid by the rich, qualify as stakeholders at Obama's housing conference."

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France, U.S. Must Pay Their Debt to Haiti

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 11:56 — Glen Ford

Toussaint L'Overture

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Were it not for slavery and ruthless imperial exploitation, modern Europe and the United States - and global capitalism, itself - would not have existed. In that sense, all of the developed nations are fundamentally indebted to the formerly colonized world. But Haiti's bill includes a very explicit $17 billion directly extorted by France (and the U.S.).

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Black Mass Incarceration, Unemployment, Unjust Wars, Corporate School Reform, Rampant Privatizations Are All “Off The Table” at CBC's Annual Legislative Conference

Wed, 08/11/2010 - 19:50 — Bruce A. Dixon

Congressional Black Caucus

For a generation, the CBC's Annual Legislative Conference, popularly known as “CBC Week” has billed itself the penultimate gathering of Black America's political elite, its best and brightest and most forward thinking minds brought together for our collective advancement. If that's anywhere close to the truth, then why are there no workshop sessions on black mass incarceration or the unjust wars in Africa and the Middle East which are massively unpopular in black communities? Why no sessions on how to stop privatizations, or defend public libraries, public schools, public transit or the public sector?

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Paul Kagame: America's Genocidaire in Central Africa

Wed, 08/11/2010 - 19:26 — Glen Ford

Museveni and Kagame

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Precisely like his predecessor, President Obama empowers a pro-western Murder Inc. in Black Africa, a roster that includes the most vicious mass murderers and assassins on the continent. One of them, Rwanda's Paul Kagame, who is culpable in the death of millions in Congo, recently held an election in which he got 93 percent of the vote. But you won't hear any complaints from the White House.

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"Snookered" by Liberalism

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 12:48 — Dr. Jared A. Ball

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by BAR editor and columnist Jared A. Ball, Ph.D.

Even the NAACP's language oozes weakness. "No longer are we even 'hoodwinked,' or 'bamboozled.' No, just 'snookered.' "I suppose its the difference between being outwitted and being without wit at all."

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WikiLeaks Documents Expose Obama's Brutal Afghan War, White House Threatens and Blames the Messengers

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 12:48 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

The White House has reached new lows in evading responsibility for Obama's wars. In the wake of the recent WikiLeaks, administration minions now distance the president from the conduct of the Afghan war prior to December, 2009 - eleven months into office. "It is as if White House minions think that all President Obama need do to absolve himself from the crimes of his wars, is to announce a 'new strategy.'"

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Obama Can't Say "No" to the Rich

Wed, 07/14/2010 - 01:37 — Glen Ford

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Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Having transferred trillions of public treasure for the sake of Wall Street's health, Obama now picks up where George Bush left off on Social Security. Obama's deficit commission is pre-programmed to assault the last vestiges of the social safety net. The president "is the right wing's most potent weapon, the one before which liberal Democrats throw up their hands in surrender without the dignity of a fight."

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Black Faith VS Black Reality in the Age of Obama

Wed, 07/14/2010 - 01:34 — Glen Ford

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A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

An objective reading of the data from the Pew Research Center leads to one conclusion: Black Americans are suffering cognitive delusions regarding their actual condition, brought on by the advent of a Black president. But one Black writer has a different view. He sees a leap of faith.

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The Oscar Grant Verdict: A Rage In Black America

Wed, 07/14/2010 - 01:16 — Dr. Jared A. Ball

I am Oscar Grant

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by columnist Jared A. Ball, Ph.D.

Post-racialism and race neutrality are fantasies; the Oscar Grant killing and trial, and the Black reaction to the verdict, are real. And so is the pervasive rage that is a characteristic - a "property" - of being Black in America.

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