| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Jobs Disappearing at Depression-Era Rates
05 Aug 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. There are no targeted programs to address soaring Black unemployment on the horizon, despite…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Clinton Threatens War in Horn of Africa
12 Aug 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 Obama administration is depicting Somalia as an African Afghanistan, and setting up the homegrown…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Dems Scurry from Tea-Baggers Over Health Care
12 Aug 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. Seldom, if ever, has a majority party been thrown into such disarray by such a motley crew. But that’s…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama On Health Care: A Comprehensive Betrayal – Where Do We Go From Here?
12 Aug 2009
The shrunken and eviscerated public option in the Obama health care plan may now be discarded in favor of something called a health co-op. The mounting toll of concessions to drug companies and bailouts of private insurers contained in the Obama plan have transformed it, according to Rep. John…
Bill Quigley
“You Gotta Get Your Mind Right”: Veterans for Peace
18 Aug 2009
by Mike Ferner A veteran anti-war activist calls for a politics of peace with justice. “Peace with justice means stopping the few from making policy for the many; from robbing us blind; denying our right to health care; destroying Earth’s life support systems; as well as sending us to war.”
Bill Quigley
US Supreme Court Orders New Hearing for Troy Davis
18 Aug 2009
by Jonathan Springston After having “narrowly avoided execution three times since July 2007,” Troy Davis got the barest whiff of justice when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a Georgia federal judge to consider his claims to innocence in the killing of a Savannah police officer. Speaking for the…
Bill Quigley
Life After Wrongful Conviction
19 Aug 2009
by Olympia Duhart Thanks to science and the efforts of the Innocence Project, hundreds of wrongly convicted persons have regained their freedom, some after spending decades behind bars. But states have wildly differing policies on compensating the innocent – and “more than a dozen states still have…
Bill Quigley
Obama on Drugs: 98% Cheney?
19 Aug 2009
by Greg Palast When Dick Cheney and leaders of the energy industry met secretly to fashion U.S. energy policy, progressives were understandably apoplectic. But when President Obama holds secret talks with the health care industry, it's another story. Progressives would be righteously upset if they…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Iraqis to Vote on Early U.S. Exit
19 Aug 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. On January 16 of next year, Iraqis will vote in national elections and a referendum on whether to send…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Piddles Away the Public's Options
19 Aug 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. “It's all over but the funeral.” In abandoning the “public option,” President Obama has relinquished…