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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s Health Care Charade
13 May 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama has gone to extraordinary lengths to suppress advocates of single-payer health care. He has choreographed a grand theater of faux-change, in which he "seeks to create a façade of unity along lines that do not threaten corporate power." The goal is…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Avoiding World Conference on Racism Shows Obama's Disrespect For Blacks
15 Apr 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama’s “fawning, damn near servile behavior when accommodating Zionist demands” to boycott and sabotage the Durban II conference on racism “should have been a deal breaker” in his relations with African Americans. But what passes for Black leadership…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Preserves Entrenched Power, Sidesteps Racial Disparities
06 May 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama actually said it: a truncated form of the hackneyed rich man's expression, "a rising tide lifts all boats." The cliché was a fixture of trickle-down Reaganics and the Bush I and II permutations, as well as the Clinton deregulationathon. Now Obama…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
President Obama Declares His DLC Allegiance: Says "I Am A New Democrat"
18 Mar 2009
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Despite the labels hung on him from all sides, Barack Obama has been, either determinedly reluctant, or notoriously slippery about defining himself. But early this month, according to a story in Politico, in a relaxed meeting with right wing congressional…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama's Af-Pak is as Whack as Bush's Iraq
02 Dec 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama has reached a watershed in his presidency: he has devolved to the intellectual level of George Bush, while retaining his world class powers of speech. History may remember Obama as just another vapid but predatory imperialist president who happens…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Lawmakers Digitally Redline African American Neighborhoods
14 Mar 2007
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Last year Big Cable and Big Telephone interests teamed up to propose national cable franchise laws that would have killed network neutrality, privatized the Internet and allowed providers a free hand to redline broadband deployment in black, poor, rural and urban…
Bill Quigley
A Corporate Black President?
04 Nov 2009
Does Barack Obama represent African Americans? All Americans? Gangster banksters? Or our transnational corporate elite in general? Glen Ford visited Capital University in Columbus Ohio last month to explore and explain... If no video is visible above, click here.
Bill Quigley
Note to “the Left”: Obama Hates You
01 Dec 2010
by Paul Street Despite oceans of evidence, many self-described “progressives” still refuse to recognize Barack Obama as the warmongering servant of Wall Street that he is. They continue to hover like flocks of groupies, eager to debase themselves for a politician that despises them. The Left –…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Uses Bully Pulpit Against Own Constituents
05 Jan 2011
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Wall Street is “feverishly preparing to destroy the financial integrity of local and state governments, much as speculative capital has ravaged member states of the European Union.” Rather than resist this grand assault, President Obama and other top…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
In the 21st Century, It's Black America VS Corporate America
10 Mar 2010
If the problem of the twentieth century was the color line, the problem of the twenty-first is resisting the extension of corporate rule. While the color line has been eased or erased for corporate black elites, it remains firmly in place for the rest of us. And it cannot be challenged…