| Black Agenda Report

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
U.S. Starves Children in Somali War
11 Nov 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. Three years after creating the “worst humanitarian crisis” in Africa by encouraging Ethiopia to invade Somalia, the U.S. now…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Encounters with Colonel Khadafi and the Green Book
04 Nov 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford An American delegation of activists and journalists travel to Libya for a World Conference of Green Book Supporters, and an audience with Colonel Mouammar Khadafi. “What possible use could a political work linked in western minds to the struggles of robed Bedouins…
Bill Quigley
Barack Obama and the African American as World Citizen
21 Jan 2009
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
Bill Quigley
Houses of Horror
18 Nov 2009
by Sikivu Hutchinson Sexualized violence permeates the reality and culture of American life. But in poor locales of Black America, those who prey on women are too often allowed to “hide in plain sight” by a police mentality that obscures the lines between victims and predators. Even as the horror…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obamacare A Bonanza For Drug Companies, A Pain For the Public
18 Nov 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. Why are the drug barons planning a $150 million ad campaign boosting Obama's health care scheme? They've got $21 billion…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Expendable Allies: Vietnam's Diem, Afghanistan's Karzai
18 Nov 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. Superpower gangsters steal whole nations as a matter of routine, but feign shock when their handpicked puppets deal in…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Played, Betrayed, Health Care Delayed: House Passes Bailout For Private Insurance Companies.
11 Nov 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Now we know what the Obama administration means by “health care reform”. They mean guranteeing the rights of insurance and drug companies to their profits. They mean making health insurance like car insurance, with everyone compelled by law to purchase it from…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
U.S. Sows Seeds of Wider War in East Africa
18 Nov 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Like a pyromaniac, the United States threatens to ignite the entire East African region in its campaign to suppress Islamist forces in Somalia. Unable to marshal support for the pitiful puppet regime in Mogadishu, the Americans try to buy…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Caucus Shows Displeasure with Obama on Jobs, But Avoids Confrontation
25 Nov 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford What's a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member to do when he/she is politically wedded to the Black man in the White House who is refusing to do anything substantive to tackle Depression-level African American unemployment? The CBC is…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Rep. John Conyers: “I’m Tired of Saving Obama’s Can”
25 Nov 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Periodically, Rep. John Conyers, one of the point-men for single payer health care, vents his frustration with President Obama. But then he, and nearly all the rest of the Progressive Caucus, vote for the president's pro-business…