Glen Ford

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Stand Your Ground and Beyond: The Whole Criminal Justice System is Arrayed Against Blacks
08 Aug 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The battle against Stand Your Ground laws must be “one front in the war against the legitimacy of a criminal justice system that is fundamentally hostile to the…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The “Obscene 14” House NSA Negroes
31 Jul 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If only half of the “Obscene 14” Black members of Congress had voted against NSA telephone spying, “the Bush-Obama surveillance regime would have been dealt its…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama Supports the Racial Surveillance That Killed Trayvon
25 Jul 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In his effort to “put the angry Black genie back in the bottle” following George Zimmerman’s acquittal, President Obama once again claimed to oppose racial profiling…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Obama Project and the Politics of Race
24 Jul 2013
by Paul Street The president expended 2,600 words to create the illusion of deep personal identification with the contemporary African American condition. But, in fact, Obama “has been actively…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trayvon and White Madness
18 Jul 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “George Zimmerman is no more provably racist in a U.S. court than most white Americans” – which is why a Justice Department action will get nowhere. Whites consider…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The U.S. War Against the World
11 Jul 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The DNA of finance capitalism has foreordained its death – and soon. To forestall that inevitability, the U.S. war machine is prepared to turn out the lights on much…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Diversity Survives (Barely), But Affirmative Action is Long Dead
26 Jun 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Diversity” has been given a tentative reprieve by the U.S. Supreme Court, but affirmative action died 35 years ago. “The journey from affirmative action to ‘…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Lies of Empire: Don’t Believe a Word They Say
20 Jun 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. reprises Iraq, inventing a WMD threat from Syria. The FBI concocts home-grown terror through stings, while the NSA claims it has secretly saved many lives…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Perpetual War – and Obama’s Perpetual Con Game
29 May 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama’s perpetual scam machine is in high gear – which signals another expansion of war and war-powers accumulation. The president played the reluctant…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Can Black Politics Be Revived?
22 May 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s presidency has been disastrous for African Americans, who have been economically crushed and disconnected from their historical roots in social struggle.…