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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Americans Afraid to Fight the Powers That Be
03 Mar 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley American mythology holds that citizens of the U.S. of A. are fighters, ever ready to defend themselves from tyrants of all kinds. But there's been little evidence of that in the current crisis. “While Greeks and Icelanders register disapproval…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Looking Beyond Black Mecca and the Failure of the Black Misleadership Class
24 Feb 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Black Mecca is definitely over. While the black business elite celebrated its own rule in Atlanta for a generation, Georgia climbed to 4th among the states in rates of incarceration, and number one in the number of adults under lock, key, probation,…
Bill Quigley
Mercenaries Circling Haiti
03 Mar 2010
by Bill Quigley Mercenary and security companies are descending on Haiti, a stricken nation where guns are illegal to buy or sell. There is every reason to fear that “money that might have been injected into the Haitian economy is just going to be grabbed by these companies.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Good Riddance Harold Ford…Again
03 Mar 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. Harold Ford Jr's latest senatorial hopes have been shot down, but the Black Blue…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Half the Congressional Black Caucus Votes For More Afghan War
17 Mar 2010
Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The advent of America's first Black president has resulted in Black congresspeople voting for wars that their…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Inc. Triumphs: Kucinich Folds His Hand on Health Care
18 Mar 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. Kucinich had been given an offer that he felt he could not refuse.The Obama…
Rick Rozoff
America's First War in Africa. US AFRICOM Launches Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia
17 Mar 2010
by Rick Rozoff Although the US supplies military aid, training and weapons to over 50 of the 54 nations on the African continent, the militarization of US Africa policy, and its decisive contribution to Africa being the mjost war-torn region on earth are simply ignored by corporate US media. Its…
Bill Quigley
Black Agenda Report is Here Because So Few Others Are....
02 Dec 2009
There's a fundamental crisis in U.S. journalism. Advertiser-supported news is broken and cannot be fixed. The numbers of working journalists and reporters, after declining steadily for decades, has fallen off a cliff in recent years, while the number of news gathering operations in both print and…
Bill Quigley
Time for a U.S. Revolution – Fifteen Reasons
10 Mar 2010
by Bill Quigley Why should we overthrow thee, let me count the ways? Well, for one, “The US puts a higher percentage of our people in jail than any other country in the world.” And there are at least fourteen other good reasons to revolt.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Smiley vs.Sharpton: A Potemkin Drama
03 Mar 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Things are getting ugly in Black misleadership circles, as Rev. Al Sharpton attempts to send Tavis Smiley into permanent purgatory for being “notoriously anti the president.” But Smiley won’t go quietly. He’s taking names of those who continue to give Barack Obama…