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Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of April 4, 2011
05 Apr 2011
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Harlem Protest Against Obama’s Wars

“There is no such thing as a ‘humanitarian” intervention, when it comes at the hands of the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,” said Dr. Williams Sales, professor of Africana Studies at Seton Hall University, speaking at a rally organized by Harlem Fightback Against War at Home and Abroad. “Do not drink the Kool-Aid” on Obama's Libya policy.

Libya Headed Toward Bloodbath

“There will be sections of the population, if the fighting enters Tripoli, who will go underground and create an insurgency,” says Dr. Vijay Prashad, director of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. On the rebel side, those that oppose foreign intervention are now irrelevant. “Libya, unfortunately, is in for a long-term bloodbath.

Foreign Occupation Likely

Robert Naiman, policy director for Washington-based Just Foreign Policy, says the U.S., by siding rebels that include Islamist elements, “has helped to create the scenario it says it most fears: a lawless area that could be a base for al Qaida types.”

Farrakhan: Chickens Coming Home

Speaking at a Chicago Mosque, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan warned that “America can’t win these wars. And if they kill that brother [Gaddafi] and his family, like they did Saddam [Hussein] and his sons, those are chickens, as Bro. Malcolm said, that will come home to roost.”

Amiri Baraka on Obama, circa 2008

In an October, 2008, radio interview, poet-activist Amiri Baraka accused leftist critics of candidate Barack Obama of being afflicted with “some kind of egotistical self-regard as the perfect radical.” Today, in his latest poem, Baraka calls President Obama a “yapping Negro” who would sell his own folks “into slavery.”

Florida Violates Voting Rights Act

By seeking to roll back the franchise for persons convicted of felonies, Florida is in violation of the Voting Rights Act, says Dale Ho, attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

How to be Happy While Black

“African American people who are higher in racial identity are generally happier with their lives,” says Michigan State University’s Stevie Yap, lead researcher of a new study.

 

 

 

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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