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Bill Quigley
Obama's War: Drunk, Bored Trigger Happy Mercenaries Kill Afghan Civilians
20 May 2009
*/ by Jeremy Scahill Blessed with immunity from the laws of any nation and a new company name mercenaries for the company formerly known as Blackwater are still hard at work, doing what mercenaries do.. getting paid, while corporate media protect us from the news. Independent journalist…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Torture Lawyers Ought To Be Disbarred
20 May 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. */ President Obama considers U.S. use of torture as an instrument of national policy is best…
Bill Quigley
Media Crisis and Grassroots Response
01 Apr 2009
by Jordan Flaherty The collapsing corporate media model of journalism does not augur well for the alternative, Left press, which no longer does much nitty-gritty work of investigation and slogging-it-out muckracking. In days gone by, “hundreds of radical magazines, newspapers and radio stations did…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Racist Symbolism Or Memorial Day Tradition? Obama Honors Confederate Dead
27 May 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. The so-called "tradition" of U.S. presidents honoring the Confederate war dead began with the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Out-Bushes Bush on Preventive Detention
27 May 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. Constitutionality aside, Barack Obama's preventive detention proposal is "damn near criminally…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Big Oil on Trial For 1995 Nigerian Executions
27 May 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. The multinational oil corporation Royal Dutch Shell faces civil charges of complicity in Nigerian…
Bill Quigley
Somali Teenager Pleads “Not Guilty” to Piracy Charges
27 May 2009
*/ In order to secure its oil and resources for the West, the US has inflicted two decades of wars and invasions upon Somalia. With no effective central government, Somalia also has no diplomats or coast guard, leaving European fishing fleets and waste dumpers to deplete and poison its…
Bill Quigley
New Orleans New Black Media Makers
27 May 2009
*/ by Jordan Flaherty The Black New Orleans-based communications collective "2-Cent" counts as its icons Huey Newton and Gil Scott Heron. "Other generations marched, and we march too. But in this age we have a whole new range of weapons.... I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would want to be on…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider Phony Terror and Black America (Part II)
27 May 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In the wake of 9/11, the Bush regime launched a domestic terror entrapment and provocateur offensive in search of trophy victims. "If Barack Obama's policies and pronouncements to date are any indication, there is little reason to believe that…
Bill Quigley
Shell. Guilty.
27 May 2009
Almost a fifth of the oil imported by the U.S. comes from Africa, and in the decade to come this percentage will rise. The eastern part of Nigeria, from which Big Oil has pumped more than a trillion dollars worth of black gold since the 1960s, remains the poorest part of the country, and one…