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Jemima Pierre
Black Ethics and Drone Politics
10 Oct 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre They ought to call it the Nobel Death from the Sky Prize. “Barack Obama is leading a multi-country gangster-style drone war that kills people whose identities aren’t known, and that has left more than 3000 dead, including 176 children.” Yet…
Dr. Boyce Watkins
How King Barack’s Administration Has Neutered Black Leadership
17 Oct 2012
by Dr. Boyce Watkins The Obama presidency has squeezed the vitality out of Black politics, which is now defined by obeisance to the Black resident of the White House. “There are some who feel that the value of protecting a president from any form of black accountability far exceeds the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Malala the Worthy Victim
17 Oct 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In U.S. war films, the American soldier fighting in a strange land befriends a local child, creating a personal bond of humanity, while busily killing scores of the kid’s adult countrymen. American corporate media perform much the…
Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley Responds to Cancellation of “Smiley & West” in Chicago
17 Oct 2012
An Open Letter from Tavis Smiley Chicago public radio officials felt compelled to add insult to injury when cancelling Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West’s weekly political program. “I do not abide insults to my hard-working and dedicated staff,” said Smiley. “One could argue that it is…
Patrick Bond
Who Will Get “Whacked” Next in Africa?
17 Oct 2012
by Patrick Bond The Obama administration’s Africa policy “has become a rotten fusion of the worst instincts within neoliberalism and neoconservatism.” Its common denominators are “petro-military complex profits, an ever-expanding ‘War on Terror’ and an anti-Chinese political block.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How Ghetto Politics Has Outlived the Ghetto, and Still Holds All Of Us Back
17 Oct 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The class of cultural, business and political hacks who pass themselves off as “black leaders” never tire of celebrating the sixties. But they have nothing to say about the seventies, eighties or nineties when the prison state and drug war engulfed the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Duopoly Debates Itself
17 Oct 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford To any objective observer, the consensus that exists between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on the fundamental issues of war and peace, Wall Street’s dominance of American life, and fiscal austerity, has been made crystal clear in the two “debates.” In…
The Editors
Oct. 12, 2012 -- An Evening In Harlem With Black Agenda Report & Friends
17 Oct 2012
Since 2006 our mission at Black Agenda Report has been to challenge the current crop of black political and cultural misleaders with a vision of a new black politics of struggle, one that takes into account class differences among blacks so as to confont the prison state, and deal with the many…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Not Voting for Obama
24 Oct 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The top Democrat and Republican have clashed face-to-face three times – and emerged far more alike than different. “Given this degree of collusion, why would it be so terrible if Obama lost?” The presidential electoral exercise…
Horace G. Campbell
A Year Later, the War in Libya is Far from Over
23 Oct 2012
by Horace Campbell The death of the U.S. ambassador in Libya revealed the extent of CIA involvement in Libya. The “agency was not merely conducting covert surveillance on the Islamists based in eastern Libya, but providing them with direct aid and coordinating their operations with the…