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Obama Made His Career “Collaborating with the GOP”
“I think he liked the 2010 election outcomes, that brought the Right back to power in the House,” says Paul Street, author of The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power. “I think that’s his comfort zone. This is his career, collaborating with the GOP,” says Street, who worked for years as a researcher for the Chicago Urban League. Although “deluded liberals and progressives” continue to insist that Obama shares their values, “they just don’t get it. This guy is just very conservative.”
White House Retaliates Against Whistleblowers
The Obama administration is taking retaliation against whistleblowers “to a new level,” says Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, herself a renowned whistleblower and author of the book, No Fear. “The president has suggested that psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists should be deployed throughout the federal government to ferret out whistleblowers,” says Coleman-Adebayo. “They want to see if there is even a potential that you might blow the whistle on injustice or corruption.”
“Baby Doc” Has Friends in High Places in Haiti
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, the dictator who returned to Haiti 25 years after being run out of the country, still has “cadres in power of some sort in the [Rene] Preval administration, and in business and many other venues in society,” says Haitian journalist and community activist Roger LeDuc. In addition, France, the United States “and, to some extent, Rene Preval,” are anxious to divert attention from the recent disastrous elections. Duvalier has been charged with corruption and embezzlement, and prosecutors say they are investigating possible crimes against humanity.
Progressive Candidate Claims Detroit Teachers Victory
Steve Conn, candidate for president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers on the Defend Public Education/Save Our Students ticket, says he is the rightful winner in the race, and that incumbent Keith Johnson rigged the vote count. Conn charges Johnson and national union president Randi Weingarten with “running the union as a tool of [education secretary] Arnie Duncan and the anti-public education privatizers.” A Day of Action is schedule for March 2, in Detroit.
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 4:00pm ET on PRN. Length: One hour.
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Main-Stream Media Version vs the Real Rev Dr ML King...
In Glen Ford's interview w Sis Dr Marsha Coleman-Adebayo. She talks about how the Corp controlled MSNM media commemorates Rev Dr ML King by saying ALL he was about was 'Black sons of former slaves living in harmony white sons of former slave-masters...' etc... blah, blah... But they don't go into how he took a strong stance against the 'Triplets of Evil- Racism, Materialistic Corp Economic Exploitation, & Militarism...' & how he said 1 YEAR To The DAY BEFORE HIS DEATH that - the US was{is} 'The biggest purveyor of violence in the World' [as true today as it was then]. Then she said almost no-one talks about how & why he died [other than the standard Lee Harvey Os... uhm thats uh James Earl Ray- did it]. Otherwise- We're going to have blame some people a hell of a lot more significant than the designated patsy{ies}....
TO Further Emphasize Sis Coleman-Adebayo's Point NOTE The Photo @: [ www.blackstate.com/images/king-nkrumah.jpg - Kwame Nkrumah & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr - Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah hosts MLK in Ghana during the independence celebrations, March 1957] On April 7th 1957 [almost exactly 10 yrs before his 'Why I Oppose the Vietnam War' Speech - given 1 yr to the day before his assassination] upon returning to the US - Rev Dr ML King preached a sermon called 'The Birth of a New Nation' on Ghana's Independence & all of Africa's struggle against Euro-Colonial oppression [see: www.blackstate.com/kingnewnation.html ]. This means he took time off from leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott to attend Ghana's Celebration of Independence as Nkrumah's special guest. Most people who know about Malcolm X know he was was a strong supporter of Africa's Drive for Independence, but few ever speak about Rev Dr MLK as a supporter of Africa's Independence Movement. The main-streaming of MLK has sold us a white-washed / card-board cut-out version of the REAL Rev Dr ML King.