| Black Agenda Report

Leutisha Stills , CBC Monitor
Obama Charges Rightward, Five CBCers Earn Bush Loyalty Points
25 Jun 2008
A hardcore handful of Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members who last week embraced George Bush's Iraq occupation policies, were joined by six others in support of a phony "compromise" over the administration's secret wiretapping of citizens. No sooner was the bill passed than presumed Democratic…
Bill Quigley
Lords of Capital Versus The Planet
25 Jun 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Seven years of Bush-Cheney governance has resulted in a seven-fold increase in oil prices, as "speculators" - actually, the Lords of Finance Capital that rule the U.S. imperium - pursue the last ounce of unearned profit. The Bush gang's "unceasing wars…
Bill Quigley
A Flood of Bigotry
25 Jun 2008
by Tim Wise In the United States, mass human tragedy almost instantly becomes overlaid with massive abuse of the victims, if they are Black - a double tragedy. Racists like Rush Limbaugh attempt to contrast the "supposedly good and decent" white people of the flooded upper Mississippi River…
Bill Quigley
Mortgage Crisis Hurts Black, Latino Economic Progress
25 Jun 2008
by James Parks "A huge portion of the wealth built up by the growing African American and Latino middle classes" may become undone by the U.S. mortgage lending crisis. Federal bailouts may or may not restore the health of the predatory institutions that created the implosion of the mortgage…
Bill Quigley
Cynthia McKinney's Call to Action in Support of Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment Against Bush
18 Jun 2008
Cynthia McKinney, who submitted articles of impeachment against George Bush in 2006, just before she left Congress, praises Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) for filing impeachment charges last week. McKinney, running for the Green Party's presidential nomination, commended Kucinich "for his courage…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: 35 Crimes
18 Jun 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley As George W. Bush's second term comes to an end, we are compelled to face the fact that "the worst outrages of the Bush regime could have been stopped with sustained opposition." The reminder comes from Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who…
Bill Quigley
Racial Sins of the Past Live On, Multiplying Pain and Suffering
18 Jun 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford For a very long time, clear disparities between Blacks and whites in medical outcomes were dismissed as the fault of African American ignorance, superstition, or bad diets. Finally, the statistically provable truth could no longer be denied: medical…
Bill Quigley
Obama and the Racial Politics of Symbols
18 Jun 2008
by Corey D.B. Walker It is beyond question that Barack Obama's pending nomination as the Democrats' presidential standard bearer has great symbolic value. However, "to equate the symbolic dimension of Senator Obama's campaign for the presidency with the substantive standing and status of…
Bill Quigley
The American Paradox
18 Jun 2008
by Shannon Joyce Prince The American creed and national mythology are mere packaging for a country that actually operates on a paradox. The Founding Fathers, privileged white men all, had few real grievances with the British Crown; they just wanted more power and privilege. With that objective…
Bill Quigley
No I Can't: Obama and the Israeli Lobby
11 Jun 2008
by Uri Avnery While the apartheid state of Israel tightens its relentless blockade of a million Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and as Israel menaces every regional capital from Tehran to Tripoli with nuclear weapons, Democratic nominee-apparent Barack Obama declares that he would bring…