Glen Ford

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Treasonous 32: Four-Fifths of Black Caucus Help Cops Murder Their Constituents
10 Sep 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Fully 80 percent of the 40 voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus refused to defund the Pentagon’s militarization of local police departments. That means…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Folks are Going Nowhere Until We Discard the Misleadership Class
28 Aug 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The movement in Ferguson has, once again, showed that the Black Misleadership Class acts as the “soft power” for the Mass Black Incarceration State, complimenting…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Ferguson Versus the Counter-Insurgency State
26 Aug 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If the people of Ferguson, Missouri, had remained “calm” in the police killing of Michael Brown, the nation would not be discussing the “militarization” of the…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Empire Reaps the Jihadist Whirlwind
26 Aug 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford For more than three decades, the U.S. has deployed Islamic fundamentalist surrogates to fight its imperial wars in Muslim lands. Now, the world’s most successful…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
James Brown: The Hardest Working Asshole in Show Business
07 Aug 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford James Brown’s music and lyrics are woven into the politics of Black America’s most productive decade, the Sixties. However, JB’s “relationship to the Black people he…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama Summons Africa to Washington to Talk Trade (and How to Cut Out China)
30 Jul 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford All of Africa’s leaders “in good standing” with the U.S. will gather in Washington, this weekend. On the continent, AFRICOM is boss, with a mission “to stymie, at…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Siege of Detroit: A War of Black Urban Removal
23 Jul 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
How to Pay for a Free, Non-Racist Higher Education
16 Jul 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Corinthian Colleges is going out of business, and other for-profit rip-offs will follow. However, “The very existence of Corinthian, Phoenix, Ashford and the other…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Superpower and the Caliphate
02 Jul 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
ISIS Iraq Offensive: Can the Empire Reassert Control of the Jihadists?
18 Jun 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “How can the U.S. bomb ISIS jihadists in Iraq and not bomb them in Syria?” The contradictions of the West’s reliance on Muslim fundamentalist jihadis to do their…