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Saving Detroit’s Art Treasures – While the Rest of the City is Picked Clean

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 00:11 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

Detroit’s Emergency Manager appears to covet the precious works housed in the city’s Institute of Art, “which could be valued at a billion dollars.” This has caused Michigan’s privileged patrons of the arts to mobilize, “not to free Detroit from the bankers’ yoke, but to find ways to separate the city’s artistic assets” from the bankruptcy process, and let the rest go to corporate creditors.

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Barack Obama: Wall Street’s Perfect Manchurian Candidate

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 17:45 — Pascal Robert

by Pascal Robert

Barack Obama has been in Wall Street's pocket since at least 2006, when he spoke to the fat cats who would bankroll his campaign and staff his government. The video tells the sorry tale and puts the present in context. “Listen to what he says about the antiquated programs from the 1930′s that people on the left ‘wrongly cling to,’ meaning Social Security.”

Detroit: The Parable of the Banksters and the City

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 13:40 — Tom Stephens

by Tom Stephens

The corporate takeover of Detroit is “a completely unprecedented spectacle” of infinite corruption and brazen bullying by the 1%. “Jones Day and its megabucks corporate client list are perfectly positioned to profit from Detroit’s ‘restructuring’ thru land speculation, privatization, and related neoliberal scams.”

Freedom Rider: Fear of a Dead Planet

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 11:57 — Margaret Kimberley

By Margaret Kimberley

Fracking is a corporate oil extraction technology. It uses vast quantities of water and irretrievably poisons water tables for entire regions before it brings up an ounce of oil or gas. Refining fracked oil & gas takes several times the energy and is vastly more polluting than conventional gas and oil, and once refined, burning even the cleanest gas and oil is altering the climate, possibly killing the planet. Fracking is fracked up.

Obama Aims To Cut Social Security & Other Federal Benefits? And This is a Surprise?

Tue, 04/09/2013 - 18:30 — Your Black World

President Obama's proposal to cut Social Security by "chaining" it to the consumer price index will cost seniors a good 10% of monthly benefits a decade from now.  Republicans didn't force him into this, it's his opening proposal for negotiating.  Is anybody even surprised?  

Farewell Jesse Jr., We Hardly Knew Ye: A Lesson on the Limits of our Black Political Class

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 01:14 — Bruce A. Dixon

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce A. Dixon

Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., was the closest thing to black royalty we hope to see. Junior was handed a congressional seat at the age of 30 on the strength of his father's career. His rise and fall should be lessons on the limits of depending on the princesses and princes of our black political class. It's time for new leaders, new pathways to, and new models of leadership.

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Remember: Sequestration was Obama’s Idea

Tue, 02/26/2013 - 21:42 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

President Obama is a full partner with the Republicans in the latest episode of the manufactured disaster saga: sequestration. “The idea was to make every popular constituency in the country scream – and accept the inevitability of massive entitlement cuts.” It’s a goal shared by corporatists in both parties.

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Obama’s Historic Assault on Social Security

Tue, 12/18/2012 - 19:20 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

After four years of maneuvering, President Obama finally has his White Whale, Social Security, within harpooning distance. “Obama has largely neutered Social Security’s traditional congressional defenders, who know perfectly well what their president is up to, but will not directly oppose him.”

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Bill and Hillary Clinton: “Friends of Haiti?”

Wed, 12/05/2012 - 02:44 — Marty Goodman

by Marty Goodman

The Clintons’ crimes against Haiti go back two decades, making Bill singularly unsuitable to act as United Nations envoy to Haiti. “Bill’s friendly relations with Haiti’s current President Michael Martelly, who is linked to Duvalier-era thugs and their kin, is well known.”

A Second Wave of Genocide Looms in Congo, with Susan Rice on Point

Wed, 11/28/2012 - 13:14 — Glen Ford

 

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

Susan Rice is a woman of ghastly accomplishments: suppressor of the facts on genocide in Congo, and chief U.S. warmonger in Africa. Yet African American politicians rush to her defense, as a role model for young Blacks, especially women.

Is This Really The Most Important Election Ever? If So, Then Where Are Our Issues?

Wed, 10/31/2012 - 13:38 — Bruce A. Dixon

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

It's hard to see how an election is so darn important for black America when the candidates aren't talking about the issues. Which one is the candidate that wants to roll back the prison state, or stop the drug war, or question gentrification? Is there a candidate who wants full funding of public education? A candidate who will cut off troops and military aid to Africa? If not, what are we voting for?

Freedom Rider: Obama the Untouchable

Wed, 10/31/2012 - 09:21 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Obama supporters who profess an intent to “hold his feet to the fire” may successfully deceive themselves and each other, but this president is no fool. Barack Obama knows that voters have no power whatsoever over him after next Tuesday, that he'll be free to follow his own inclinations, whatever those are.

Freedom Rider: Not Voting for Obama

Wed, 10/24/2012 - 08:42 — Margaret Kimberley

 

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

The top Democrat and Republican have clashed face-to-face three times – and emerged far more alike than different. “Given this degree of collusion, why would it be so terrible if Obama lost?” The presidential electoral exercise looks more like an exorcism in which both parties are the Devil.

Talking Peace and Justice with Ahmadinejad

Wed, 09/26/2012 - 14:34 — Glen Ford

 

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

“The American government wants to expand its hegemony over the center of energy in the world, which is the Middle East,” said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a Manhattan dinner with mainly American peace and justice advocates. Iran considers weapons of mass destruction to be forbidden under Islam. All the talk of war is merely a cloak for America’s imperial ambitions.

Brought To You By “Clean Coal:” All You Need To Know About the 2012 Obama- Romney Debates

Wed, 09/26/2012 - 12:41 — Bruce A. Dixon

A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

What do we do when choices between major presidential candidates aren't real choices, and debates between them not real debates? Real or not, the scripted and controlled events put on by the corporate “Commission” on Presidential Debates are heralded by corporate media as the opportunity to compare Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, as if a meaningful “choice” existed between them.

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