| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Pakistan is the Epicenter of Threat to World Survival
18 Jul 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The monstrous state that was created out of the British engineered partition of India - Pakistan - has long since become an American tool for mischief in the world, including nuclear proliferation, creation of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,…
Rep. Maxine Waters
What Role Did U.S. Play In Baby Doc’s Return to Haiti?
26 Jan 2011
by Rep. Maxine Waters The return of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, in combination with the fiasco of a presidential election, has created a perfect storm of fear and anger in Haiti. California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who witnessed many of the events surrounding the U.S. overthrow of…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Why Black MisLeadership Won’t Sign the Anti-War Petition
26 Jan 2011
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford “We vow not to support President Barack Obama for renomination for another term in office, and to actively seek to impede his war policies unless and until he reverses them,“ says a petition signed by hundreds of social activists, only a handful of…
Bill Quigley
FCC Spreads Digital Disinformation on TV Transition
17 Sep 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Thanks to corporate media's longstanding refusal to report on itself, along with a multimillion dollar campaign of public disinformation paid for by the FCC on behalf of commercial broadcasters, high-def TV and converter boxes are all most of know about…
Bill Quigley
The FCC and the Emperors of TV Have No Clothes
06 Aug 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Big Media and their sock puppets at the FCC have engineered a massive theft of public resources -- the giveaway of more than ten thousand newly minted digital TV channels to themselves. They have finagled the regulatory process to exclude community groups,…
Bill Quigley
The Hidden History of US Broadcasting
02 Jul 2008
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon The US broadcast media regime, in which greedy, amoral corporations enjoy completely free monopoly licenses to run their highly profitable businesses upon the scarce public property that is the broadcast spectrum is usually presented to us as the only “natural”…
Bill Quigley
Black Radio and the "Performance Rights" Toll Booth
20 May 2009
___FCKsi___1 by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon The cynically misnamed "Performance Rights" legislation will not benefit performers. It will extract a premium from radio broadcasters, killing some, and transforming others for the worse. It will create another piece of "…
Bill Quigley
Bars and Bills for Burge
29 Jan 2011
Bill Quigley
Big Media Censor the Kucinich-Gravel Tag Team
02 May 2007
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black America's Real Issue With Barack Obama
14 Feb 2007
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon The spurious claim that Black Americans oppose Barack Obama because of his white mother, African father, and Harvard Law degrees is a racist slur against Black Americans by the mainstream news media, designed to trivialize and divert…