Glen Ford

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Court Finds Deliberate Discrimination by NYC Fire Dept and Mayor
20 Jan 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The civil rights movement may be moribund, but civil rights law still yields results. New York City, behaving like many of its citizens in…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
"Progressives For Obama" Change Name To Omit Their President
16 Dec 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford It has taken almost a year for “Progressives for Obama” to make a partial break with their former object of adulation, proof that groupie-love is a…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Wealthy Nations To Poor Ones: There Will Be No Reparations For Killing the Planet
16 Dec 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Even as the world approaches “the end-game of human existence,” brought on by centuries of exploitation of nature and man, the chief polluters and…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Paul Krugman's Blind Spot for Corporations and Obama
16 Dec 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford At times of acute crisis, the oppressed and exploited find out who their real friends are. Old political labels become useless, as do former…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Why ACORN Won
16 Dec 2009
by Bill Quigley A federal court has affirmed that the U.S. Congress acted illegally in barring the grass roots organization ACORN from access to government contracts. Although the federal legislature…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Caucus Finally Gets the Message: Obama’s Not ‘The One’
09 Dec 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The Congressional Black Caucus agonizes as the accumulated miseries of their constituents force Black lawmakers to put distance between themselves…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
If Banksters Are Like Gangsters, Where's the Anti-Bankster Legislation?
09 Dec 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford It's in the House of Representatives right now. “Nothing on the calendar of Congress, and no campaign from the grassroots, has anything…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Civil Rights Division To Clean Up After 8 Years of Bush
09 Dec 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford President Bush's minions behaved like vandals in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, trashing the very concept of equal protection…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Will the Last “Progressive for Obama” Please Turn Out the Lights?
09 Dec 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Black Agenda Report heartily endorses this Saturday’s Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally in front of the White House. Having said that, we turn to the subject of the…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama's Af-Pak is as Whack as Bush's Iraq
02 Dec 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama has reached a watershed in his presidency: he has devolved to the intellectual level of George Bush, while retaining his world class powers of speech…