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  • by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
    Freedom Rider: Economic Disaster for Black America
    20 May 2009
      by BAR executive editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley  The horrific numbers don't lie. "Entire neighborhoods" of African Americans "have been destroyed by high numbers of foreclosures, which effect not only homeowners, but also renters who are made homeless." Yet President…
  • Bill Quigley
    Obama's War: Drunk, Bored Trigger Happy Mercenaries Kill Afghan Civilians
    20 May 2009
    ___FCKsi___1 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. …
  • 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. ___FCKsi___1President Obama considers U.S. use of torture as an instrument of national…
  • 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…
  • Bill Quigley
    Somali Teenager Pleads “Not Guilty” to Piracy Charges
    27 May 2009
    ___FCKsi___1 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…
  • Bill Quigley
    New Orleans New Black Media Makers
    27 May 2009
    ___FCKsi___1 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…
  • 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…

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