Glen Ford

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Killing Gaddafi's Grandbabies
05 May 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When the U.S. and Europeans needed a way to get on the “right” side of the Arab Awakening – and thereby crush it – they chose to re-demonize Libyan…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Dragging Malcolm X to Obamaland
27 Apr 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Manning Marable’s rendition of Malcolm X’s life should be read very carefully, so as not to confuse Malcolm’s evolving worldview with the late Columbia…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama’s Depraved Indifference
20 Apr 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama seems positively eager to dismantle the safety nets put in place in the Thirties and strengthened by a Black-led movement in the Sixties. He…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Lynch Law and Summary Executions in Rebel-Held Libya
06 Apr 2011
“The world’s most imperial-dependent, ill-disciplined and whining ‘liberation movement’ is still blaming black ‘mercenaries’ and soldiers from Chad for its failures in the field.” Chad, meanwhi
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama’s North African War Face
30 Mar 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Whatever happens to Moammar Gaddafi, an independent Libya is not on the U.S. agenda. “Obama hopes to ‘stabilize’ Libya under indirect U.S. dominion through a…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama’s Imperial Twist: “Humanitarian” Regime Change in Libya
23 Mar 2011
President Obama demanded regime change in Libya more than three weeks ago, but now acts as if that’s not his policy.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
UPDATE: The American Dilemma in Libya: To Bomb, Invade, Partition, Or All of the Above
18 Mar 2011
UPDATED: As Khadafi’s forces prepare to encircle the rebel stronghold at Benghazi, western media remain curiously unable to “provide a coherent overview of rebel politics, beyond a
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Race and Arab Nationalism in Libya
09 Mar 2011
Although a reawakened Arab nationalism “represents a catastrophe for U.S. imperialism,” the conflict in Libya dramatically exposes an “endemic” racism in the North African Maghreb.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Is Back Coalition Holds March 26 Conference on the “Other” U.S. Wars
09 Mar 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The bulk of U.S. and European anti-war movements have never opposed all imperial domination of other peoples, and have therefore been selective about…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Glen Ford: “The Re-Awakening of Arab Nationalism is a Gargantuan Problem for U.S. Imperialism”
09 Mar 2011
The editors The United States is finding it impossible to devise a coherent policy in the Arab world “because the very existence of a resurgent Arab nationalism eliminates a whole range of…