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5 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: What's More Important? Turning Off Fox News? Or Stopping the President's Cat Food Commission?
While black political leaders and activists focus on turning off Fox News, and clownish disputes with Tea Partyers and the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, are they missing something more important? Can any good from a Democratic president reaching across the aisle to team up with Republicans for a bipartisan “fiscal reform” that targets “entitlements,” meaning Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security? read more
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5 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: Rwanda Crisis Could Expose U.S. Role in Congo Genocide
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Left writers have been reporting for years that U.S. allies Rwanda and Uganda bear primary responsibility for the deaths of as many as six million Congolese. Now a leaked United Nations report has confirmed that Rwanda’s crimes in Congo may rise to the level of genocide, since President Paul Kagame’s forces killed Hutu elderly, children and women without regard to nationality. Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s “mentors and funders in the U.S. government…must be held equally accountable.” read more
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5 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: Freedom Rider: Prison Rape: America’s Torture
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Americans look with horror at places like Congo where rape is a tool of warfare, yet are apt to make light of appalling levels of sexual abuse in U.S. prisons and jails. “In 2008 and 2009, 88,500 adults held in jails and prisons reported being sexually assaulted” – and this does not count endemic rape in juvenile detention centers. Yet Attorney General Eric Holder is dragging his feet on complying with the Prison Rape Elimination Act. read more
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5 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: Reclaiming the Dream and Brand Obama
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR columnist Jared Ball A strollthrough Al Sharpton's recent MLK-themed demonstration, in Washington,DC, was anything but a walk down memory lane. Gone were theprincipled voices of yesterday. "None were there to challengeObama, whose presidency has so far been an absolute reversal of anyof King's most pronounced political concerns; an end to poverty, warand capitalism as an unchecked economic system." http://traffic.libsyn.com/blackagendareport/20100902_jb_DCMarch.mp3 http://traffic.libsyn.com/blackagendareport/20100902_jb_DCMarch.mp3 read more
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5 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: New Orleans Black Activists Denounce Obama and Shame Misleadership Class
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford When it comes to making President Obama accountable for his own wars, his own corporate pandering, his own trillion-dollar bank bailouts, the Black misleadership class becomes mute. But poor people's activists in New Orleans had no problem denouncing the president's housing policies, which ensure that "fat cats like Warren Buffett and huge private banking institutions will inherit the nation's public housing properties." http://traffic.libsyn.com/blackagendareport/20100902_gf_Rallies.mp3 http://traffic.libsyn.com/blackagendareport/20100902_gf_Rallies.mp3 read more
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5 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: U.S. Prison Gulag vs. Global Human Rights
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford In a whitewash of monumental proportions, the Obama administration refused to acknowledge vast racial disparities at every stage of the U.S. criminal justice system. "In sheer numbers, the American prison gulag dwarfs that of every other nation, and its racial composition is irrefutable proof that the American state functions as the principal enforcer of the color bar in U.S. society." http://traffic.libsyn.com/blackagendareport/20100902_gf_Gulag.mp3 http://traffic.libsyn.com/blackagendareport/20100902_gf_Gulag.mp3 read more
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5 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: First Black Labor Union Marks Milestone And The Redbaiting Of Leftists
by Jean Damu Lots of the “heroes” of Black history made their own deals with the devil. A. Philip Randolph, famed Black union organizer and credited with proposing the 1963 March on Washington, collaborated in vicious red-baiting of Black radicals. Philips and his aide, Bayard Rustin, fought the good fight for civil rights and jobs, but “beyond the borders and shores of America Phillips and Randolph were virulent defenders of colonialism and capitalism.” read more
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5 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: Wyclef Jean's presidential candidacy in Haiti
by Ezili Danto Singer Wyclef Jean continues to distract attention from the realities of Haiti, despite his having been declared ineligible to make a run for the presidency. With the most popular political party barred from the November ballot, it is absurd to talk of democracy. Haiti’s reality is foreign occupation and loss of sovereignty. “Exacerbating catastrophe to capitalize on catastrophe is a workable formula for key stakeholders in Haiti affairs, as these elections may provide fresh reasons to perpetuate the U.N./U.S. presence in Haiti.” read more
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5 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: Reclaiming Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Benjamin Woods The real Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. remains quite accessible to us, through his writings and a wealth of other material. However, King’s political likeness is not to be found among the current Black leadership class. Therefore, “it is on those who believe in his vision today to build a real social movement for a revolutionary transformation of human society.” read more
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6 days ago
From: Black Agenda Report
Title: Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey
Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey U.S. Rwandan Ally is “Greatest Mass Killer on the Face of the Earth, Today” Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda and one of Washington’s top allies in Africa, “is the greatest mass killer on the face of the earth, today, says Edwin S. Herman, co-author of The Politics of Genocide. Millions have died in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since Rwanda Uganda, and close another U.S. ally, invaded the country in the mid-Nineties. According to Herman, a UN report showed the area of Congo occupied by Rwandan forces experienced three and a half million excess deaths – a genocide by any measurement. Yet Kagame “is a western hero.” Plus, Mtangulizi Sanyika, of New Orleans’ African American Leadership Project, assesses the state of the city five years after the deluge, and a newly developed Economic Security Index shows Americans face growing employment instability, says Yale University’s Jacob Hacker. Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 4:00pm ET on PRN. Length: One hour. http://blackagendaradio.podbean.com/mf/web/x9jndn/BlackAgendaRadio083010.mp3 http://blackagendaradio.podbean.com/mf/web/x9jndn/BlackAgendaRadio083010.mp3 read more
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