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  • by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
    New York Times Attempts to Define and Dictate Black Politics
    13 Aug 2008
    Normal 0 by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Sunday magazine of the nation's most influential newspaper predicts that Black politics as we know it is headed for extinction, that Barack Obama's "brand of ‘race-neutrality' shows Black politics is obsolete, and should be abandoned." Of course,…
  • Bill Quigley
    The Seven-Foot Poet is on Vacation
    13 Aug 2008
    Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet, will return on Wednesday, August 20.
  • Bill Quigley
    U.S. Mercenary Chickens Will Come Home to Roost
    20 Aug 2008
    Normal 0 A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The wholesale privatization of U.S. war-making capabilities continues apace, despite the expected indictment of six Blackwater mercenaries involved in last year's massacre of Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic jam. Domestically, for…
  • Bill Quigley
    John Edwards and Fake Morality
    20 Aug 2008
    Normal 0 by Mel Reeves Big Business media are coming to resemble the National Enquirer more each day. Former senator and presidential aspirant John Edwards' marital indiscretions loomed larger in the corporate media mind than matters of war and peace, fiscal solvency or human rights. There…
  • Bill Quigley
    If Obama Loses
    20 Aug 2008
    Normal 0 by Paul Street The author, no fan of Barack Obama's "neoliberal centrist" ambitions, believes that "hubris and overreach" as well as race "could play a role in a hypothetical Obama defeat." Like other Democrats of his corporate bent, "Obama has done everything he can to reassure the…
  • David Weiner
    What Racism Does to White People
    20 Aug 2008
    Normal 0 by David Weiner "Authoritarianism, the soil of racism, makes dominant white culture in the United States an easy pawn of fascism." So said social-psychiatrist Erich Fromm and others who argued that racism "renders its proletarian benefactors passive and weak, ready to coalesce into…
  • Bill Quigley
    Some Prisoners Declared Innocent, But Not Freed
    20 Aug 2008
    Normal 0 by Maya Schenwar Sometimes being innocent doesn't mean a damn thing. Former Black Panther Albert Woodfox's 35-year-old conviction in a prison guard killing was overturned last month, but the Louisiana Attorney General is keeping Woodfox locked up until a new trial can be arranged -…
  • Bill Quigley
    Denver 2008: Hope Is For The Weak
    20 Aug 2008
    by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon As the Democratic wing of America's permanent ruling party convenes in Denver, Democrats have dominated the Congress for almost two years. There are more US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than in 2006 but no Democratic deadline to end these useless, predatory…
  • Bill Quigley
    Cynthia McKinney: Power to the People! Stop the War!
    27 Aug 2008
    Normal 0 The Democratic Party "takes impeachment off the table," finances "an illegal and immoral war," fails to "even mention Hurricanes Katrina and Rita survivors in their Congressional agenda for the first 100 days," and aids and abets "illegal spying on us" - yet has the gall to call itself…
  • Bill Quigley
    Why Black Agenda Report (and Your Support For It) Matters
    03 Sep 2008
    by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon The owners of private media, and their puppets at the FCC have decided you don't need news.  As a result, the number of working reporters and journalists have been in free fall for some time, as newspapers, TV and radio stations are permitted to buy out…

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