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Detroit City Council Grovels to Power, Inflicts Further Harm on City

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 23:47 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

The majority on the Detroit city council have done further harm to the besieged metropolis, voting to allow emergency manager Kevyn Orr’s former law firm to represent the city’s interests. “It will be argued that the people’s representatives have effectively given thumbs up to the nullification of Detroit,” thus weakening any legal challenges to corporate dictatorship over the city.

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“Operation Ghetto Storm”: The New Face of U.S. Fascism

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 17:48 — Ajamu Baraka

by Ajamu Baraka

The pace quickens in the killing of Black people in the U.S. Operation Ghetto Storm, a new report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, clocks the rate of extrajudicial executions of African Americans at one every 28 hours – up from last year’s report titled Every Thirty-Six Hours. The murder of Blacks is integral to “the government’s overall strategy of containing the Black community in a state of perpetual colonial subjugation and exploitation.”

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.”

Manchester, Texas: Tip of the Environmental Nightmare

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 13:55 — Marsha Coleman-...

by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo

Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice as the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, should hear the children's voices in Houston’s Manchester community, whose life prospects have been shrunken by environmental racism. “We are being poisoned and we want to know why this is being allowed.”

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.”

South Africa: Chris Hani Would be Angry at ANC “Adopting Our Class Opponents' Policies”

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 13:30 — National Union ...

by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa

In the 20 years since the assassination of South African communist leader Chris Hani, the contradictions inherent in the agreement leading to electoral democracy have come to a head. "Comrade Chris would have condemned the brutal killing and slaughtering of workers in Marikana in defense of the minerals/energy/finance complex ruling oligarchy interests.”

A Tribute to Chris Hani on the 20th Anniversary of His Assassination

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 13:17 — Carlos Martinez

by Carlos Martinez

Chris Hani was a man of the people who saw the struggle for socialism and African liberation as inseparable. A leader of both the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress, Hani “realized that national liberation, though essential, would not bring about total economic liberation.”

My Wise Country Cousin On De Offal Office

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 12:50 — Raymond Nat Turner

by Raymond Nat Turner

Hail to the thief, and the office he thieves out of.

Beyond Obamacare: How A Single Payer System Can Save Health Care in the U.S.

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 10:34 — Physicians for ...

By Physicians For A National Health Care Plan

Published on April 15 at Physicians For a National Health Care Plan

Unlike Medicare, which President Johnson had up and running eleven months after passage, the Obama administration cynically delayed the full effect of its “Affordable Care Act” also called Obamacare, till 2016, when he would be leaving office because they know it won't come near to keeping the promises they made for it. But there's still a way to provide affordable quality care to everybody --- single payer.

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Mon, 04/15/2013 - 21:33 — Glen Ford

More Whites Swept Into U.S. Gulag

The racial incarceration gap has narrowed, slightly, with more whites and going to prison in recent years. “It’s almost like law enforcement is looking for more feeders for their beds,” said Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of The Correctional Association of New York. “As the economy continues to decline, poverty is closely associated with who law enforcement goes after,” she said. “So, you find more whites being swept up in the system.”

New Book Exposes Manning Marable’s Lies About Malcolm X

“The central lie” of Manning Marable’s book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, “is the idea that Malcolm X was not an African Internationalist, not committed to revolution, but that when push came to shove, he was really part of the American dream and the American structure,” said Dr. Todd Burroughs, a professor of communications at Morgan State University. Burroughs and Dr. Jared Ball are co-editors of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X, a collection of essays by prominent Black intellectuals and activists. “It was a shame that we had to do the book,” said Burroughs. “For him to mess it up this badly is a travesty.”

U.S. Will Bring About World War Three

The U.S. and its allies are running amuk, much like the Axis powers in the 1930s, said Dr. Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, at Champaign. “After 9/11, we’ve had the United States, Britain, France and NATO literally rampaging around the world, destroying and invading states,” said Dr. Boyle. “They are going to lead us into a Third World War over something.” Boyle’s newest book is titled Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution.

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Is This Barack Obama's 2nd Term? Is it Bill Clinton's 3rd? Or Is It Ronald Reagan's 9th?

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 15:53 — Bruce A. Dixon

By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

They say that elections do matter, and that there are real differences between Republican and Democratic presidents. But backing up the view to 30 years, that difference looks a lot more like continuity, both at home and in America's global empire.

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.

School Privatization Fraud: Michelle Rhee May Yet Join Beverly Hall in the Dock

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 00:27 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

“Michelle Rhee may yet pay for her the damage she has inflicted on society and its children.” The former DC schools superintendent and privatization poster girl has been exposed to charges of fraud, along with her sister in crime, former Atlanta superintendent Beverly Hall. The real criminal enterprise is codified in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, headed up by the Bush and Obama gangs.

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Africa: Imperialism’s High Mark of Conquest in the 21st Century

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 00:19 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

The US-NATO military curtain has fallen the length and breadth of Africa. “Zimbabwe and tiny Eritrea are among the few nations on the African continent that have not yet been absorbed into the AFRICOM matrix.”

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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?  

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