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Untold Stories: Haiti, White Supremacy, US Foreign Policy and Corporate Media
20 Jan 2010
by Solomon Comissiong The U.S. corporate media have a difficult time covering the Haiti catastrophe. “Haiti's poverty and economic desolation were largely made-in-America,” an inconvenient fact to transmit to American audiences. Corporate media's “job is to invoke pity, confusion, and ignorance, as…
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How The Vicious U.S. Blockade of Cuba Really Works
19 Aug 2009
by Marta Veloz. Translation by Machetera. Has the Obama Administration really done anything to ease ithe nearly half century long blockade of Cuba? Machetera's translation of this article from the Cuban press unravels the workings of the continual state of economic war the U.S. wages against…
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One Year After Quake: Million Plus Remain Homeless and Displaced in Haiti
12 Jan 2011
by Bill Quigley and Jeena Shah Statistical tricks are being used to minimize Haiti’s gargantuan homeless crisis. An outfit called the International Organization for Migration is claiming false “progress” in resettling earthquake victims based on the fact that thousands have left displacement…
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Thanksgaffling
24 Nov 2010
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Shooting Cans: The Racist Assault on the 14th Amendment
18 Aug 2010
by Kevin Alexander Gray The Right is aiming at the “very foundation of U.S. civil rights law” with its attacks on the 14th Amendment. Repeal would “return the U.S. to the doctrine of the Dred Scott decision, the idea that one can never overcome the status of his or her previous condition: once a…
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Buccaneers In Somali Waters – But They’re Not Somalis
17 Nov 2008
There is, indeed, piracy in the waters of Somalia, most of it perpetrated by foreign vessels that steal $300 million in fish per year. With no government to protect their national rights, Somali sailors find other ways to make a living. "Think of us like a coast guard." The audio for this Black…
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It's About Time
22 Oct 2008
by Cynthia McKinney Speaking to a Black Panther Party reunion in Atlanta, Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney declared, "I consistently use you as a gauge: if they would do it to the Black Panther Party, then all of America must know that they will, without hesitation, also…
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Haiti and the Dangers of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P)
31 Dec 2008
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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Washington Refuses to Call Off Its Dogs in Honduras
02 Sep 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. “While President Obama issues vacuous statements claiming to support the general principle of electoral…
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Black Agenda Morning Shot Friday, January 21, 2011 - Brian Concannon on the Return of Baby Doc to Haiti
21 Jan 2011