Black US Public Wants Peace, But Black US President Wages War
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The historical African American desire for peace clashes with the warlike policies of the first Black president. Something's got to give – and in the end...
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Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordThe U.S. set the stage for the Afghan (and Pakistan) war eight years ago, when it handed out drug dealing franchises to warlords on Washington's payroll. Now...
View ArticleObama's Af-Pak is as Whack as Bush's Iraq
by BAR executive editor Glen FordPresident Obama has reached a watershed in his presidency: he has devolved to the intellectual level of George Bush, while retaining his world class powers of speech....
View ArticleKucinich To Submit Bills That Deny Funding To Af-Pak War
Kucinich To Submit Bills That Deny Funding To Af-Pak WarIf you do not see the video above, click here.The Af-Pak war funding bill before Congress is also happens to contain the money for unemployment...
View ArticleMcKinney: President Obama is Complicit in War Crimes
Obama Complicit in War Crimes, Says McKinney(If you cannot see the video above, click here.)“Our President is now complicit in torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the...
View ArticleObama Continues to Privatize America's Imperial Wars
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordThe Pentagon has methodically insulated its wars from most of U.S. civil society. “For the United States, war has devolved to a matter of contracts, a...
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Barack Obama and Langston Hughes on “Grumblers” and “Merry Christmas”
When US presidents offer us their holiday greeting messages, do we know what are they really saying? How hard can it be to figure that out? Langston Hughes died in 1967, but he knew what every US...
View ArticleAyesha Fleary For Black Is Back Coalition: The President's Wars Are Not "Our"...
Just because the president has a pretty brown face, a beautiful African American wife, and adorable black children doesn't make his wars the cause of Black America, Ayesha Fleary told attendees at an...
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Freedom Rider: Endless Terror
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyOnce citizenship can be stripped away by the state, the Constitution becomes a dead letter. Yet that is the self-mutilation prescribed by American...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Documents Expose Obama's Brutal Afghan War, White House Threatens...
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordThe White House has reached new lows in evading responsibility for Obama's wars. In the wake of the recent WikiLeaks, administration minions now distance the...
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War Crime Whistleblower in Obama’s Sights, War Criminals Not
The Obama administration is even more fixated on secrecy than its Republican predecessor, whose crimes go unpunished and in many case, repeated. The continuity of the two war-making regimes is obvious....
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Bishop, Clyburn, Scott, Butterfield, Green & Davis: The CBC's Six Eunuchs of War
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Three-quarters of the Congressional Black Caucus voted to deny the warmonger in the White House funds for his aggressions. Although Obama got his "blood...
View ArticleAmerica's Moral Vacuum: Dead Afghans = Lost Emails
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordIn reporting on U.S. slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan, the New York Times equated the loss of Afghan lives with the mislaying of emails. What has been...
View ArticleFreedom Rider: American Murder in Pakistan
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley“The lies began at the very top, with the president’s own words.” The President of the United States went before the American people – and the...
View ArticleIs Obama Even Worse Than Bush?
by David SwansonGeorge Bush threatened and blustered, while President Obama’s m.o. is to “operate through deceptive propaganda.” But substantively, Obama pursues – and expands on – Bush’s policies, and...
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