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A Campaign Foreign Policy Focus by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who seems poised to capture the Green Party presidential nomination, in Chicago, this month, "is at this juncture in history the only vehicle through which progressives can both register their outrage at Barack Obama and begin the process of rebuilding a mass, Black-led movement for real social change." Meanwhile, the frequency of Obama's Right turns seem to increase in direct proportion to the nearness of the general election. "Surely no one with a brain any longer believes that Obama is a closet progressive, or even a genuine liberal." The question is, How many progressives will put their votes and resources to honorable use?

by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon

The US broadcast media regime, in which greedy, amoral corporations enjoy completely free monopoly licenses to run their highly profitable businesses upon the scarce public property that is the broadcast spectrum is usually presented to us as the only “natural” and sensible media order. It is, we've all been told, the benign and logical outcome of democratic give and take and rigorous competition in a free marketplace. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

"The Obama campaign slogan ought to be ‘Never give a sucker an even break.'" The Democratic nominee-to-be has made "chumps" out of progressives at every turn, yet they still fawn over Obama as if he is one of their own. But do these "hapless" supporters deserve pity - or condemnation. Regarding the group, Progressives for Obama, "they are accomplices to" the candidate's "wrong doing." Something is clearly wrong in the "progressive" American political culture.. "Because progressives never fought the good fight amongst themselves, they still don't know what their agenda ought to be, or worse yet, they don't even know they should have one."

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

George W. Bush as his mentor, Barack Obama shamelessly dives into the political sewer of "faith-based initiatives," the Republican strategy to bribe the Black preaching class. Obama takes his cues from "W," who early in his first term lured hustler/preachers by the thousands into GOP ranks by grabbing them by the greedy-bones. Rather than prepare to cast out this great corruption along with the Bush regime, Obama adopts it as his own - a shocking display of cynicism and amorality. Obama's faith-based treachery will inevitably result in a weakening of the Black progressive tradition.

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