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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
GM Could Have Become a “Green” Industrial Machine
10 Jun 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 has passed up his chance to become a transformational president, by failing to convert…
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Women in Darfur: We Saw No Evidence of Genocide
10 Jun 2009
By Afshin Rattansi George Clooney, Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Cindy Crawford, Bono, Michael Caine, Claudia Schiffer, Bob Geldof, Hugh Grant, Mia Farrow, Mick Jagger and so many others have expressed their solidarity with the people of the oil-rich region of Darfur. A few weeks ago,…
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“God Sent the Shooter”: White Christian Terrorism and the Assassination of George Tiller
10 Jun 2009
by Sikivu Hutchinson The profiles of “ those who invoke Christian fundamentalism as justification for their barbaric incursions against women and their allies” match those of other denizens of the peculiar U.S. Right-wing “movement”: “disaffected white middle aged males, aligned with a…
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Black Radio Speaks With Forked Tongue
10 Jun 2009
by Paul Porter Black radio owners and those who depend on them for publicity and profits are waging a propaganda offensive against a bill to compensate artists for airplay. Radio One founder Cathy Hughes “and her staff have done a great job of concealing the facts” of the legislation, HR 848…
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Cuba, the US and the OAS
10 Jun 2009
by John Maxwell Even though both Castro brothers repeatedly stated that Cuba has no desire to rejoin the Organization of American States (OAS), Latin America demanded that the ban against Cuba be dropped. “For them the OAS has been a yanki weapon against all of them, from Arbenz to Allende to…
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Anthony Monteiro in Harlem, May 31, 2009, When Obama Won, Did We?
10 Jun 2009
If no video is visible above, click here. Was the election of the nation's First Black President a victory for our people in the long struggle against racism and empire? Or does it simply mark a change in establishment tactics that will make it even more difficult to press the case for…
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Cynthia McKinney in Harlem : Confronting Neo Liberalism in the Age of Obama
10 Jun 2009
If no video is visible above, click here. It's too late to be disappointed with the Obama administration. As our parents and grandparents might say, it hurts too much to laugh and we're too grown to cry. The answer then, is to take stock of what we have, to assess our opportunities and…
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Glen Ford Answers Michael Eric Dyson On Obama; "Embracing Blackness" is Not the Problem
10 Jun 2009
If no video is visible above, click here. Contrary to what confused intellectuals like Dr. Michael Eric Dyson would have us believe, the president's unwillingness to "embrace blackness" is hardly the issue. In fact, Dyson gives the president an A for his handling of foreign and domestic…
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Dead Aid: More Kool Aid
16 Jun 2009
by C. Uzondu Dambiso Moyo pounds the talk show circuit proclaiming that foreign aid is Africa's worst problem. Her prescription: heavy doses of capitalism - as if the continent doesn't have enough of it: “Shell in the Niger delta, Canada’s Banro Corporation in the Democratic Republic of Congo,…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Holding on in East Harlem and Points West, North and South
17 Jun 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Neoliberalism is the root cause of rampaging gentrification and displacement, from New York to New Orleans to Atenco, Mexico.” Keen observers of political-economy would agree with this assessment from Zapatista-inspired community activists in Spanish Harlem, who…