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Giovanni Dubon
Police Death Squads Haunt Brazil’s Favelas
23 Nov 2011
by Giovanni Dubon “Brazil has begun to teeter on the brink of human rights violations” as it begins to clear 1.5 million poor citizens from their neighborhoods in preparation for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Killings of favela residents far exceed police violence, even in…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Gridlock is a Blessing: To Hell With Obama and His Van Joneses
23 Nov 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As BAR predicted, gridlock – which has finished off the congressional SuperCommittee – was the last, best hope to prevent Barack Obama from consummating his marriage with the Republicans over the past year. In the interim, a new social movement has…
Bill Quigley
Hip Hop Profanity, Misogyny and Violence: Blame the Manufacturer
02 May 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The often convoluted debate over hip-hop lyrics and images frequently misses the point: mass marketed rap recordings, videos and stage acts are corporate products, and the artists are virtual employees and subcontractors of huge multinationals. Corporate control…
Bill Quigley
Grand Theft Digital; How Corporate Broadcasters Are Hijacking Digital TV
11 Jun 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon The FCC has spent millions of dollars "educating" the public on the transition from analog to to digital TV. But what they haven't told the American people is that on February 18, 2009 every one of the nation's more than 1700 analog TV broadcasters…
Bill Quigley
FCC Announces 80 City “We're Not Listening” Digital TV Tour
27 Aug 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Digital TV means four to ten times as many channels for each and every broadcaster with no obligations to the public. The FCC quietly awarded broadcasters this colossal gift of public property worth $70-$80 billion during the Clinton administration back in 1996…
Bill Quigley
Towards a Reconstruction of the Freedom Movement
13 Feb 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In the nearly 40 years since Black America has fielded anything resembling a mass movement, African Americans have forgotten how to speak the language of social change. Language is also central to the thought process. Thus, it becomes more difficult to…
Bill Quigley
Obama’s White Male Voters: Do They Hear Something Blacks Don’t?
20 Feb 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The corporate media and most Blacks with access to a mass public never seem to seriously examine the meaning of the most dramatic, history-shaking statistic in Barack Obama's march to the White House: he's picking up strong majorities of white men. That's…
Bill Quigley
Corporate Reporters Tell Lies for a Living
23 Apr 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The 41 signers of an open letter denouncing ABC's farcical conduct during the most recent presidential debate may have thought they were doing the right thing - but they managed to send the wrong message. Although there is no doubt that George…
Bill Quigley
Obama’s ‘Race Neutral’ Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions
30 Apr 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The world views of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama were incompatible from the start, just as the mythical American Manifest Destiny world view is directly at odds with the facts as perceived by Blacks in the United States. Wright finally forced Obama…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Comes Out
25 Jun 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama is coming out of the corporate closet, so to speak - in an unseemly rush! Having finally made his nomination inevitable, the Democratic standard bearer-to-be is going public with what was also inevitable: a full unveiling of his…