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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Black Caucus and Obama: One-Way Loyalty
07 Sep 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 health care, Barack Obama “has become a heavy burden for even the Black Caucus to bear, as he…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Doing Business in the USA: A Culture of Thievery
07 Sep 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. Cheating one's employees is as American as apple pie, according to a new study. Two-thirds of low-wage…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Sham Debate Over Obama's Af-Pak War
08 Sep 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. If the Afghanistan-Pakistan war is a necessity, then it certainly must be escalated. President Obama's…
Bill Quigley
The Long Road Home: Marking the 4th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
02 Sep 2009
by John Payton The Gulf regions “Road Home” program hasn't brought nearly enough former residents of New Orleans back home. Four years after the Katrina, there is danger that even those who remain in New Orleans may not be counted in the upcoming Census – especially those who are Black and brown.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Who's Blocking Health Care Reform Now? Blue Dogs? Senate Dems? House Progressives? Or the White House Itself?
02 Sep 2009
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In less than a year, Democrats have transformed themselves from the party of change to the party of excuses. Republican birthers and teapartyers, blue dog Democrats, rogue donkey and elephant senators, and even progressives favoring single payer or the shadowy…
Michael Hudson
Dress Rehearsal For Debt Peonage, a Guns & Butter Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson
06 Sep 2009
Transcript of a Bonnie Faulkner Guns & Butter Radio interview with Dr. Michael Hudson Dr. Michael Hudson is a real economist, one of those who not only accurately predicted the current economic downturn well in advance, but explains its causes and consequences in plain understandable language…
Bill Quigley
“Your Name is Common”: Racial Profiling in the US
07 Sep 2009
by Kamalakar Duvvuru People from certain cultures or bearing certain names have no rights that public and private American institutions are bound to respect. “Their 'foreign marks' make them suspects” in a nation bent of discovering enemies and “others” unworthy of treatment as human beings.
Bill Quigley
Raping Faces for Progress
07 Sep 2009
by Richard Leader Smug liberals gleefully deployed double and triple entendres in an effort to squeeze every ounce of rape-humor from the Right's campaign against health care. But is it worth it? What do we lose when we label right wing demonstrators "teabaggers"?
Bill Quigley
Dennis Kucinich Answers President's HealthCare Speech
10 Sep 2009
Count on Cleveland's Dennis Kucinich to cut through the rhetorical foggery and fakery around health care -- or rather health insurance reform. It's a bailout for private insurance companies.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
US Aircraft and Elite Navy SEALs Defeat Three Somalis in a Lifeboat
15 Apr 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic above to download this BA Radio Commentary The mounting hue and cry in the US press over the menace to civilization posed by…