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Freedom Rider: U.S./Israel Axis of Evil

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 00:38 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

“If anyone can get away with making Israeli fantasies of regional domination come true, it is Obama.” He’s got more faces than a Hindu god, and smoother moves than the NBA. “He killed Gaddafi, he is destroying Syria, and he is sending troops to occupy the African continent.” If only he was on our side.

U.S.-Sponsored Genocides: From Guatemala to Congo

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 23:57 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

Guatemala has put its U.S.-backed genocidal maniac on trial, but Washington continues to protect its agents of mass murder in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “There is no auditorium big enough to hold the all the living Americans who should justly be charged with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”

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A Tale of Two Political Prisoners – and You Can Help Both of Them

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 23:37 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

Two heroic political prisoners need your urgent help. Albert Woodfox, of the Angola 3, has spent four decades in solitary confinement. Lynne Stewart, the people’s lawyer, is fighting cancer in a Texas prison cell. “Lynne’s family and legions of supporters are asking that she be given compassionate release from prison so that she can at least have a chance at survival.”

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The Shame of America’s Gulag

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 17:51 — Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges

The barbarity of solitary confinement was reintroduced into the U.S. prison system following the Black Freedom and anti-imperialist movements of the Sixties, part of the “seamless evolution of political and social incapacitation of poor people of color.” At root “is the predatory nature of corporate capitalism itself.

Human Trafficking and the Human Rights Agenda Against Eritrea

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 16:32 — Simon Tesfamariam

by Simon Tesfamariam

Eritrea is among the very few African nations that have avoided entanglement with the U.S. military machine. As a consequence, Eritrea has been subjected to a campaign of sanctions, threats and lies, much of it centering on allegations of human trafficking and use of child soldiers. “Eritrea is not allowed to defend itself in court, in the media, or anywhere in the international arena.”

War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: The story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 13:12 — Ajamu Baraka

by Ajamu Baraka

A decade after the US attempt to “shock and awe” humanity and usher in its new “American century” more than a million Iraqis are dead, and trillions of dollars have been squandered, while the high ranking architects and enablers of these monstrous crimes are still riding high...

Creating Terror in North Africa

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 13:01 — Jacob Mundy

by Jacob Mundy

The Sahel region of northern Africa was among the first to be militarized under U.S. “war on terror” doctrine. It is now described as “an arc of instability said to run 4,000 miles from Somalia through the Sahel to the central Sahara.” The U.S. created the conditions that will “likely constitute a key argument to justify the amplification of AFRICOM’s budget.”

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Mon, 03/18/2013 - 22:41 — Glen Ford

Detroit Residents Robbed of Equal Voting Rights

By drastically diminishing the power of Detroit’s elected officials, Michigan’s governor has violated the Voting Rights Act and constitutional guarantees of one man-one vote, said Butch Hollowell, general counsel for the Detroit NAACP. Kevyn Orr, a Black partner in the rightwing law firm Jones Day, was named the city’s emergency finance director, with near-dictatorial powers. Jones Day represents Wells Fargo – “which has done more foreclosures in Detroit and the state of Michigan than any other firm,” said Hollowell – as well as Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and CitiGroup.

Stop-and-Frisk on Trial in NYC

Every year, New York City cops violate hundreds of thousands of Black and brown people’s fundamental constitutional rights, stopping and frisking them for “being likely to commit crimes, rather than having actually committed a crime,” said Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. “The vast majority of those stops are for harassment and crowd-control purposes,” said Warren. The trial phase of a class action suit seeking damages for those unlawfully profiled, began this week.

Ten Years After Invasion, Most Americans Remain Terrifyingly Insane

“You have a majority of Americans believing that Iraqis benefited from this war, while the United States suffered,” said David Swanson, publisher of the influential website War Is A Crime. “A plurality of Americans believe Iraqis are grateful for the invasion,” which killed 1.4 million and maimed, sickened or displaced many millions more, said Swanson.

Venezuela Part of Global Shift

Venezuela’s resistance to U.S. domination is “a symptom of a real shift in the balance of power that has been occurring in the world for a while now, and has startled the United States,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. Racial realities are part of the new dynamic. “Chavez himself was aware that one of the reasons there was so much antagonism between him and the upper classes, was that he was not white.”

Punish Civil Rights Violations, Obama!

Coalition for Change, or C4C, representing current and former Black federal employees, is circulating a petition urging President Obama to sign an executive order that mandates discipline for managers that violate workers’ civil rights. At present, it’s a “toothless mandate,” said C4C co-founder Tanya Ward Jordan. The petition drive is called Unleash No FEAR.

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The U.S. Scorched Earth Policy, Ten Years After Iraq Invasion

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 14:24 — Glen Ford

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

In desperation to halt the slide into “non-empire” status, the U.S. makes every government on Earth a potential target for “humanitarian” military intervention. The imposition of chaos is Washington’s default foreign policy as an alternative to “the Chinese handwriting on the wall.”

Freedom Rider: Rand Paul Exposes the Democrats

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 08:29 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Rand Paul was denounced as the wrong man with the right message, but most Democrats were too craven to deliver any message at all on the high crimes of their president and his killing assistant. “At the end of the day, only two Democrats (Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley) and independent Bernie Sanders joined Republicans in opposing Brennan’s nomination.”

There Used To Be These Things Called Public Schools & Public Libraries....

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 08:26 — Bruce A. Dixon

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce A. Dixon

The conversion of the historic black Freedom Movement from the struggle for a broad spectrum of economic, human and political rights into a struggle for mere “civil rights under law” engineered by our black misleadership class has been a blind alley, leading to impotence against gentrification, the prison state, and the drive to privatizate...

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Begging Obama to Turn on His Banker Friends

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 08:25 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

A reformist group is petitioning President Obama to end his administration’s “too big to jail” policy. The petition assumes Obama actually wants to do the right thing, even though he has “placed corporate fat cats and their cold-blooded operatives throughout his administration from the very beginning, in positions where they can do the most harm.”

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The Black Caucus’ Relentless Pursuit of Insubstantial Symbolism

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 08:25 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

If only the Congressional Black Caucus would pay as much attention to the substantive areas of government policy – “how government policies affect the great mass of Black people” – rather than huff and puff over the symbolic trappings of power. Unfortunately, for the Caucus, “it’s the appearances that count.”

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Silence On Privatiztion Is Complicity

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 08:22 — Atlanta Public ...

by the Atlanta Public Sector Alliance

In metro Atlanta, North America's second largest concentration of African descendants, local elites including black Democrats, are aggressively consolidating the privatization of public education and public transit.  If they can do it here, with the active help or complicit silence of the black political class.....

“Scientific Assassinations” are Part of the CIA’s Modus Operandi

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 23:08 — Wayne Madsen

by Wayne Madsen

President Hugo Chavez believed that foreign enemies had given him and other Latin American leftist leaders cancer. His successor agrees that “Chavez was struck in a ‘scientific attack’ by Venezuela’s ‘historical enemies.’” No one doubts Washington’s willingness to use its thousands of stockpiled doses of “oncogenic and immunosuppressive viruses.”

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