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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
US Humanitarian Aid Looks More Like US Invasion
20 Jan 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford If everything the United States does appears to be related to its imperial mission, that's because it's true. The “U.S. policy of putting the military in charge of, not only disaster relief, but foreign assistance in general, is an outgrowth of…
Bill Quigley
Black Is Back on the UN Copenhagen Climate Meeting
27 Jan 2010
by Ayesha Fleary If you do not see the video above, click here. At the January 2010 Black Is Back conference in Florida last week, Ayesha Fleary explains how the UN Copenhagen Climate meeting was hijacked by the elites of the US, China, Western Europe and the world's biggest polluters to…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Indict Bush, Cheney, and Condoleezza, Too
27 Jan 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The world's only superpower is the greatest subverter of international law. But Prof. Francis Boyle believes he's found the legal hook to bring the Bush Gang to justice – and Barack Obama, too, if he continues to pursue Bush's illegal policies.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Supreme Court: Humans Have No Rights That a Corporation is Bound to Respect
27 Jan 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford More than a century ago, a Supreme Court decided that corporations had the rights of “persons.” Last week, the High Court awarded the paper corporate avatars the right to swallow human political affairs, whole. “The more profound effect will be to…
Bill Quigley
Living a Black Fantasy: The Obama Delirium Effect
20 Jan 2010
by Glen Ford Barack Obama’s presence in the White House is bad for Black people’s mental health. Even as the African American economic condition deteriorates by the day, Blacks perceive a world in which their prospects are improving. Something did change for the better for Black people in 2009. The…
Bill Quigley
Boojum Hunting in the Caribbean
27 Jan 2010
by John Maxwell The United States is historically and culturally primed to commit atrocities against Haiti, it seems. “It is the place where apparitions like Pat Robertson, Roger Noriega, Otto Reich and Luigi Einaudi flourish and have their being, sustained by vicious fables invented 500 years ago…
Bill Quigley
“We Talk of Assuming Protectorate Over Haiti.”
27 Jan 2010
by Frederick Douglass, 1893 Even in Frederick Douglass's day, American “sharks” circled Haiti, hoping to steal her people's land, liberty and sovereignty. “Men in high American quarters have boasted to me,” said Douglass, “of their ability to start a revolution in Haiti at pleasure.” …
Bill Quigley
Larry Hamm, Organizing Black Communities in the Age of Obama
27 Jan 2010
by Larry Hamm With chapters from Camden NJ in the south to Plainfield and Newark NJ in the north and New York City too, the Peoples Organization For Progress has established a solid tradition of educating and organizing African American communities against war, empire, privatization, and…
Bill Quigley
How Will Media Reformers Treat President Obama?
11 Jun 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Last week's Media Reform Conference in Minneapolis may have been the last in a series of such gatherings to occur under a Republican administration. Resembling mass meetings of progressive political activists with access to alternative media, the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
War Looms in Nigeria's Oil Fields
03 Feb 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an MP3 copy. A headless Nigerian state braces for renewed civil war in the Niger River Delta, where guerillas threaten “all-out” assaults on oil facilities. Attacks on vessels…