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Obama Justice Department Joins the Sean Bell Murder Whitewash

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 22:57 — Glen Ford

sean bell murder protest

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
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In an age of pervasive racial profiling and militarized policing, impunity is the order of the day in local law enforcement. When summary execution and casual sadism pass for justice at the street cop level, where is the appeal of last resort? Certainly not the Obama Justice Department.

Another Corporate Bailout: Obama Goes Nuclear

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 22:51 — Glen Ford
Obama's nuclear night
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
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The Obama administration is preparing another huge corporate giveaway – this time to an industry that has been moribund for 30 years. “Nuclear power was all but dead because private capital saw the industry as a bad risk.” But, with Obama's proposed $55 billion in loan guarantees, “Wall Street can prepare to process billions of dollars in new loans, knowing it doesn't stand to lose one cent because the public is taking all the financial risk.”

Obama Would Have Been Jailed Under Patriot Act

Wed, 02/17/2010 - 06:33 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
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“When it comes to civil and political liberties, the U.S. is a far less free place than it was, a generation ago.” Citizens acting under the slogan “Free Nelson Mandela” would have been prosecuted as criminals under the Patriot Act, as interpreted by both the Bush and Obama administrations.

How Did Corporate America, Black America, And Left America All End Up On The Same Side?

Wed, 02/17/2010 - 03:20 — Glen Ford

By BAR executive editor Glen Ford

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Glen Ford notes that more than $23 trillion dollars has been steered to the financial sector since the Wall Street Meltdown, far exceeding the total value of everything produced and consumed in the entire US economy in any year.  Most of this largesse has been bestowed upon the banksters not under Bush, but under Obama.  For the ruling class, the Obama craze came along just in time to divert real opposition to their continued wars and their swallowing of the American state, whole.

How President Obama Has Shut Down Black Political Demands and Neutralized the American Left

Wed, 02/17/2010 - 02:20 — Glen Ford

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

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We hear all the time that the Obama campaign and presidency mark the triumph of savvy black political power.  The truth however, explained BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford, is that the rise of Barack Obama has checkmated historic black demands for justice at home and peace abroad, and neutralized the broader American left. Ford spoke at the New England Anti-War Conference in Boston, January 30.

U.S. Attempts to Erase Haitian Nationhood

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 01:50 — Glen Ford
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The world’s sole superpower behaves as if Haitian sovereignty no longer exists. Notions of legality are wholly absent in America’s occupation of Haiti, where the U.S. poses as the internationally recognized authority. Washington arrogantly improvises the terms of the Haitian “protectorate.”

Tea Partyers Are White Nationalists, Pure and Simple

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 20:19 — Glen Ford
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
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The Tea Party crowd is as old as notions of American Manifest Destiny. They are White Nationalists, who yearn for “a time when the United States was a self-proclaimed White Man's Country.” Tea Partiers are most threatening to the cohesion and identity of the Republican Party. But they appear to have panicked some Blacks and progressives, who want “circle the wagons around the Obama administration” in the face of racist attacks.

Amend the Constitution – and Whatever Else It Takes to Break Corporate Power

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 20:16 — Glen Ford
corporate personsA Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
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Legislation to begin the process of amending the U.S. Constitution, introduced by Black Congresspersons John Conyers and Donna Edwards, “deserves broad support.” There is no greater enemy of mankind than the global corporation, which has now been empowered by the U.S. Supreme Court to further monopolize the American political conversation.

War Looms in Nigeria's Oil Fields

Tue, 02/02/2010 - 21:16 — Glen Ford
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
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A headless Nigerian state braces for renewed civil war in the Niger River Delta, where guerillas threaten “all-out” assaults on oil facilities. Attacks on vessels off the Nigerian coast are already comparable to Somalia.

Building a Social Movement: Black is Back Coalition Meets in Florida

Wed, 01/27/2010 - 01:01 — Glen Ford
black is back againby BAR executive editor Glen Ford
At long last, the Black Left is on a path to organizing a new movement, to replace the one that was “wiped out” a generation ago. The Black is Back Coalition gathered “to consolidate alliances, solidify the Coalition’s organizational structure, and reaffirm Principles of Unity.”

Supreme Court: Humans Have No Rights That a Corporation is Bound to Respect

Wed, 01/27/2010 - 00:42 — Glen Ford
cold campaign cashA Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

More than a century ago, a Supreme Court decided that corporations had the rights of “persons.” Last week, the High Court awarded the paper corporate avatars the right to swallow human political affairs, whole. “The more profound effect will be to complete the corporatization of the Democratic Party.”
 

Indict Bush, Cheney, and Condoleezza, Too

Wed, 01/27/2010 - 00:39 — Glen Ford
Condi War CriminalA Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

The world's only superpower is the greatest subverter of international law. But Prof. Francis Boyle believes he's found the legal hook to bring the Bush Gang to justice – and Barack Obama, too, if he continues to pursue Bush's illegal policies.

Obama Did Not "Inherit" Afghan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Somali and Other Wars

Tue, 01/26/2010 - 18:48 — Glen Ford

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At the Black Is Back conference in Florida last week, Glen Ford explains that President Obama didn't 'inherit' the imperial wars around the world.  Obama embraces and promotes American global hegemony.  He campaigned long and hard to be head of the empire, and the job was purchased for him with more than $600 million in direct campaign contributions, mostly from the same large donors that financed George Bush four and eight years ago.

Living a Black Fantasy: The Obama Delirium Effect

Wed, 01/20/2010 - 05:07 — Glen Ford
your presidentby Glen Ford
Barack Obama’s presence in the White House is bad for Black people’s mental health. Even as the African American economic condition deteriorates by the day, Blacks perceive a world in which their prospects are improving. Something did change for the better for Black people in 2009. The problem is, it only happened in their minds.

US Humanitarian Aid Looks More Like US Invasion

Wed, 01/20/2010 - 02:35 — Glen Ford
military in haitiA Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

If everything the United States does appears to be related to its imperial mission, that's because it's true. The “U.S. policy of putting the military in charge of, not only disaster relief, but foreign assistance in general, is an outgrowth of the collapse of the Soviet Union.” The attitude is, “If they want American aid, they'll have to accept the U.S. military presence.”
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