Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of August 6, 2012
07 Aug 2012
🖨️ Print Article

 

Don’t Depend on Obama

“Whatever happens in November, our job doesn’t change,” said anti-racism activist Tim Wise, author of Dear White America: A Letter to a New Minority. “The symbolic value of a Black face in a high place does not necessarily translate into structural change.” A mass movement is necessary to force elected officials to address social issues, “because they are not going to do it in and of themselves.”

COINTELPRO Never Ended

The government’s Counter Intelligence Program of the Sixties was never shut down, said Larry Pinkney, former Black Panther and political prisoner. The Feds continue to plant provocateurs in activist ranks. “It’s the oldest trick in the book,” said Pinkney, “and the reason it has consistently worked is, we’ve got too many ‘sheeple’ out there who are about to find themselves in a situation where they have no Constitutional or human rights.”

Offshore Trillions

Measuring the global elite’s offshore cash stashes is “like estimating the size of a black hole,” said James Henry, author of Tax Justice Network-USA study titled “The Price of Offshore, Revisited.” Between $21 trillion to $32 trillion is hidden from tax collectors, said Henry, a former chief economist for the McKinsey consulting group. Developing nations are actually net lenders to First World countries, “to the tune of $11 trillion, which is exactly opposite the way global capital markets are supposed to function.”

Africa at Crossroads

“The African Union has proven itself incapable of resolving armed conflicts” in Libya, the Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau, said Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston. South Africa, the sub-Saharan powerhouse, is key to continental security. “It’s either get South Africa off the sidelines or invite in the United States or some outside power – and, obviously, the latter is too ghastly to contemplate.”

 

Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Tuesday at 4:00pm ET on PRN. Length: One hour.


More Stories


  • Leftist Anti-Anti-Imperialism: Supporting Imperialism But With Caveats
    Roger D. Harris
    Leftist Anti-Anti-Imperialism: Supporting Imperialism But With Caveats
    09 Jun 2021
    The phony Left dabbles in R2P interventions and claims the world is plagued by a plethora of imperialisms, thus letting the superpower and its allies off the hook.
  • AFRICOM Military’s Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests
    Pavan Kulkami
    AFRICOM Military’s Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests
    09 Jun 2021
    An AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise in the Mediterranean Sea, ostensibly to combat “irregular migration” and trafficking, is really about further militarizing Africa.
  • New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia’s “Political Genocide”
    Dan Cohen
    New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia’s “Political Genocide”
    09 Jun 2021
    Known as the “Red Dance,” the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union in Colombia was apparently concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history.
  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 7, 2021
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 7, 2021
    08 Jun 2021
    The Democrat-Republican Symbiosis
  •  Margaret Kimberley Israel Aides Repression in Colombia
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
    Israel Aids Repression in Colombia
    08 Jun 2021
    The Zionist state is helping the government of Colombia violently suppress a national strike against austerity, said Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace and 2016 Green
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us