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The Empire Holds Its War Council in Chicago

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:14 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

The administration imposed the most draconian police state legal structures in U.S. history summoning the heads of NATO to Chicago. The pact accounts for 70 percent of military spending on the planet – combining the capacities of yesterday’s imperialists and the current superpower. “The Black man in the White House is seen, ironically, as the last best hope of the old colonial racial order and the rule of capital.”

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The United States: An Impoverished, Delusional Society

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:09 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

When Europeans resist corporate austerity measures, they are struggling to avoid “being forced to live like most Americans, at the total mercy of the rich.” The U.S. safety net hardly exists. The “American way of life” is a state of profound insecurity and social disconnectedness.

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The Black Church: How Corporate Media & the Prosperity Gospel Make Legions of Ready Dupes

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 21:53 — Bruce A. Dixon

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

News reports are surfacing of more fraudulent financial advisors operating from the pulpits of black and white prosperity gospel megachurches. Federal lawmen are investigating, corporate news reporters and commentators bloviating. But are they asking the real questions, or missing the real story?

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Charters Have Nothing to do With Community Control of Schools

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 21:47 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Charter school advocates are among the biggest scam artists in politics. They use the language of community control to transfer public assets into private hands. “Promoters of 'trigger laws' have only one use for parents: to pull the trigger on a school so that it can be converted to, or make room for, a charter school operated by the private sector.” Have mayors Michael Bloomberg and Rahm Emanuel, both bullies for charter schools, ever supported community control?

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Somalia Recolonized – With African Help

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 21:44 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Since at least 2006, Somalia has been the focus of the United States’ drive for military domination of Africa, with other African states lining up to join in the bloody, neocolonial feast. Sierra Leone is the latest. “Sierra Leone’s soldiers have become cogs in the imperial reconquest of Africa, with Somalia as ground zero.”

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Why Obama Won’t Help Foreclosure Victims

Tue, 05/01/2012 - 23:41 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

The Obama administration has repeatedly refused to spend moneys a set aside for distressed homeowners and communities. Why? Because banks have refused to cooperate with such programs, fearing that intervention in the housing market “would threaten to upset the bankers’ carefully calibrated market manipulations.” They would rather continue rigging the game. “The banks have been carefully dribbling out houses for sale, attempting to artificially stabilize prices with the goal of pumping up another bubble.”

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Bragging About Killing Osama bin Laden: Old Blowbacks and New

Tue, 05/01/2012 - 23:37 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

President Obama, like the joker in the White House before him, owes Osama bin Laden for making him appear sufficiently lethal-minded. But it was U.S. the alliance with Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan that, ultimately, made “Osama bin Laden became, arguably, the most recognizable face on the planet.” Then came the “blowback,” when the “Americans found they could not control the Islamic forces they had unleashed.” The U.S. once again aligns itself with jihadis against Syria – and another blowback is coming.

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Private Prison Corporations Are Slave Traders

Tue, 04/24/2012 - 21:23 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Crime has been going down for nearly a generation, and the states have finally put the brakes on prison growth in response to the fiscal crunch. But Wall Street prison profiteers see the crisis as an opportunity. The Corrections Corporation of America has offered to buy nearly all the nation’s state prisons. “To ensure their profitability, the corporation insists that it be guaranteed that the prisons be kept at least 90 percent full.”

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2 Years on, BP Gulf Disaster Proves Obama Just As Oil-Soaked A Political Stooge as Cheney or Bush

Tue, 04/24/2012 - 21:23 — Bruce A. Dixon

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

When the Gulf Disaster happened, President Obama had solid majorities in Congress and a free hand. Instead of using it to protect the public, he grabbed for the favor of oil companies and protected their homicidal, ecocidal practices. Can there be any doubt who Barack really is?

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Why the U.S. Can’t Compete Educationally

Tue, 04/24/2012 - 21:23 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

The United States cannot follow the Finnish model to emerge from second class world educational status, because the Finnish system is based on social equality and esteem for the teaching profession. Here, “teachers are relentless hounded and degraded, made the scapegoats of society’s inequalities by sharing low scores with their students, whose families and communities are cut off from America’s wealth.” To compete, America must be radically transformed.

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Put Your Hands On the Radio --- Free Webinar Thurs April 26 on How To Obtain Low Power FM Radio Station Licenses!

Tue, 04/24/2012 - 21:23 — Bruce A. Dixon

The FCC is about to grant low power FM radio station licenses in hundreds of communities across the country. Low power FM radio binds communities together and can further the mission of your arts group or community group, union, neighborhood association or other civic body like nothing else. To find out more, join Black Agenda Report for a Thursday April 26 webinar at 9PM Eastern Time. Click the link at the end of the article below to register.

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Obama Administration Withholds Home Foreclosure Aid to Hardest Hit

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 23:44 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Obama cries crocodile tears about what the Republicans in Congress won’t let him do. But he allowed more than $7 billion in TARP money set aside for worst hit victims of the housing crisis to sit, unspent, in Treasury Department accounts, for two years. “No wonder most people think TARP is only concerned with bailing out the banks. The Obama administration has treated it that way.”

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The West Wants to Take the Rest of Sudan’s Oil

Tue, 04/17/2012 - 23:44 — Glen Ford

 

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Less than a year ago, Sudan was split in two after decades of U.S. support for the secessionist South. Newly independent and deeply impoverished South Sudan has now seized much of what remains of the North’s oil fields. The South refuses to return to its borders, despite widespread international denunciation – a boldness that is inconceivable without the connivance of the United States.

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Obama Signs a Phony – and Dangerous – “JOBS” Bill

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 23:40 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Obama and his Republican soul mates have pulled another fast one, passing a “JOBS” bill that provides no jobs, but instead further deregulates Wall Street’s crisis-making machine. The president has joined his big business backers in an attempt to repeat Bill Clinton’s brief and unstable “boom” by “ inflating another hi-tech bubble to keep the casino wheels spinning for a few years.”

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Economic Boycotts Over Trayvon Martin Are Cynical Misdirections of a Potential Movement

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 23:40 — Bruce A. Dixon

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Some so-called civil rights leaders talk up economic boycotts over Trayvon Martin, the same way some of them did over Troy Davis a few months ago, and the state of Ariizona before that. But what if economic boycotts really don't work for stuff like that? What are these so-called leaders really doing, and why?

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