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The Great Moving Right Show
The late Stuart Hall cautions us to be wary of turning to historical precedent without understanding the specific conjunctures of power that characterize the rise of the right. Stuart Hall would probably caution us from turning to the past to understand the present.
The Great Moving Right Show
The late Stuart Hall cautions us to be wary of turning to historical precedent without understanding the specific conjunctures of power that characterize the rise of the right. Stuart Hall would probably caution us from turning to the past to understand the present.
Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays, but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving endures 20 years after he wrote it. This article was first published in The Black Commentator in 2003 and republished in Black Agenda Report. Nobody but Americans celebrates Thanksgiving. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar.
Rejoicing In Genocide And White Supremacy By Glen Ford
The American Thanksgiving: Rejoicing In Genocide And White Supremacy By Glen Ford 27 November, 2006 Black Agenda Report "Thanksgiving as presently celebrated is an affront to civilization.” Nobody but Americans celebrates Thanksgiving. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar.
A New Government in Ethiopia Promises Major Political Changes
Following three years of protests in Ethiopia, former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned in February and now a new government is taking over, which promises to recognize a peace treaty with Eritrea, possibly bringing a long period of tensions to an end. We speak to Glenn Ford of the Black Agenda Report about Africa’s second most populous country Story Transcript EDDIE CONWAY: Welcome to The Real News. I’m Eddie Conway, coming to you from Baltimore. Recently. Ethiopia has been in the news.
Cornel West: “Bernie Was Crushed by Neoliberalism”
Interview by Daniel Denvir There is only one Cornel West. For years, Professor West has been one of the sharpest minds on the American left, and perhaps our greatest moral critic of capitalism and inequality. A scholar in the Harvard Divinity School, West began his political life in the tumult of the civil rights movement — becoming a Christian radical and later a socialist who served for years as a chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Yes, Defund the Cops-And Put Them Under Community Control
"Street power’ will be dissipated if organizers leave the levers of power in the hands of local Democrats." Never in the modern history of the United States has an insurgent, Black-led movement been viewed favorably by such large majorities of whites.
Glen Ford: Having Not Yet Won Any Real Power Over Police, This Is No Time for a Truce
New York City (BAR) — The awesome power of massed, militant people in motion has been manifest since the Memorial Day murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The Pentagon Adds Its Madness to "Fake News” Hysteria | Black Agenda Report
The evil geniuses at DARPA claim to be building a defense against fake news – a sure sign that the Pentagon is actually creating fake news.
Jay-Z Seeks to Profit from the War Machine | Black Agenda Report
Jay-Z isn’t just trying to make another billion bucks by undermining Colin Kaepernick and the “take a knee” movement, said Louis Jefferson, funder of the San-Jose, California-based African Liberation Lab for Revolutionary Qulture. The rapper is jockeying to join football league owners in glorifying the flag and luring volunteers into the US war machine. “A lot of that is being marketed through the NFL” and “through commercials that promote the military,” said Jefferson.
Is Warren talented enough to betray the people as masterfully as Obama?
Posted Aug 31, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (August 29, 2019) | Elizabeth Warren is seen as a counter Bernie Sanders, but she will melt (like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris) if she stops raising Democrats’ expectations to bust corporate power. If BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon had not passed away in June, he would be having a field day with Monday’s New York Times article describing Sen.
Is Warren Talented Enough to Betray the People as Masterfully as Obama?
Elizabeth Warren is seen as a counter Bernie Sanders, but she will melt (like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris) if she stops raising Democrats’ expectations to bust corporate power. If Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce Dixon had not passed away in June, he would be having a field day with Monday’s New York Times article describing Sen.
Blacks don’t blame immigrants for the boss’s crimes
Posted Aug 24, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (August 22, 2019) | Large proportions of African Americans registered strong opposition to building a wall on the southern border, keeping undocumented people in limbo, and mass deportations. African Americans differ only slightly from Latino Americans in their attitudes towards immigration, and are in some ways more opposed than Hispanics to Donald Trump’s policies at the southern border.
Blacks Don’t Blame Immigrants for the Boss’s Crimes
Large proportions of African Americans registered strong opposition to building a wall on the southern border, keeping undocumented people in limbo, and mass deportations. African Americans differ only slightly from Latino Americans in their attitudes towards immigration, and are in some ways more opposed than Hispanics to Donald Trump’s policies at the southern border.
Why the Rich Want to Bury Bernie, the Not-Really-Socialist
Sanders is fighting capitalist austerity, not capitalist rule, but austerity is ruling class policy, so the Democratic Party must stop him.
American exceptionalism = mass murder
Posted Aug 10, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (August 8, 2019) | U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right. In the Age of Trump, the New York Times and other corporate media have discovered that militant white supremacists are over-represented among the practitioners of the nation’s peculiar pathology: mass shootings.
American Exceptionalism = Mass Murder
U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right. The FBI has always behaved as if armed white supremacists were a potential reserve force to help crush Black rebellions. In the Age of Trump, the New York Times and other corporate media have discovered that militant white supremacists are over-represented among the practitioners of the nation’s peculiar pathology: mass shootings.
Reparations Rising - With Permission from White Democrats
Black people’s support for reparations has soared in sync with the concept’s receptivity among white Democrats and establishment Black politicians. Nothing useful to the Black struggle will result from all this reparations-like drama if it remains within the Democratic Party’s corporate domain.
Sanders, Biden and the Electability Scam
If Black people were choosing sides in the primary based on ideology and issues, Biden would have little appeal and Sanders would win, hands down. “Only Bernie Sanders offers programs big enough to convince a small portion of Trump’s whites to choose saving their sick mother over stoking their sense of racial superiority.” Joe Biden’s corpse-like performance at the Miami debate should have caused the immediate interment of his campaign to the graveyard of presidential history.
Black Agenda Report
Joe Biden with racist Sen. James Eastland The “squad” condemns Trump for his white nationalism, not understanding that as a white supremacist settler-colonial state, white nationalism is“American” nationalism.
Sanders vs the Endless Austerity Regime
Posted Jul 13, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (July 11, 2019) | Bernie Sanders must very quickly get serious about building a grassroots movement-type politics on the ground that disrupts the corporate-managed pace, coverage and content of the primary season. Corporate Democrats have had great success in smothering Bernie Sanders’ challenge to the capitalist austerity regime that has eroded U.S. working class incomes and economic security for two generations.
Prosecution falters in poisoning of Flint water
Posted Jun 19, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (June 17, 2019) | Five years after it was confirmed that the water supply of Flint, Michigan, was a danger to human health, charges have been–at least temporarily–dropped against eight former and present officials who had been facing up to 20 years in prison for a host of felonies.
Regime change through social media
Posted May 31, 2019 by Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey & Glen Ford (May 27, 2019) | The CIA’s Digital Innovations Division is now as strategic a tool of regime change as the old cloak and dagger methods of subversion, according to Doug Valentine, author of The Phoenix Programand The CIA As Organized Crime.
“Color” revolution USA
Posted May 09, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (May 2, 2019) | The U.S. press has routinely abused, disrespected and lied about Black, brown and yellow peoples and their heads of state, and now subjects its own top political figures to the same treatment.
Black Agenda Report
Coleen Rowley, the former FBI agent that exposed the Bureau’s pre-9/11 failures, said Russiagate began as an incident that, at most, would have been grounds for a secret counter-intelligence investigation, but was turned into “a public lynching without any evidence.” As a consequence, “it has put us on the verge of confrontation with a nuclear superpower, and led to us revoking the First Amendment of publishers to publish information.”
Mass manufacturers of slander and lies
Posted Apr 08, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (April 4, 2019) | The U.S. has nothing to offer Africa but guns, drones and an extended half-life for the neocolonial order. Chastened by the long-awaited Mueller report–or at least what we’ve learned about the two-year probe into “Russiagate” from Attorney General William Barr–the U.S. corporate media have been forced to partially abandon their ludicrous claim of “collusion” between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Russiagate implodes, pleasing Trump but leaving the left in the cold
Posted Apr 02, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (March 28, 2019) | The “Deep State” escalated a dispute within the U.S. corporate electoral duopoly into a geopolitical crisis, an “attack on America” Robert Mueller has finally put a plug in the noxious fart that has oozed for almost three years from the conjoined bowels of the Democratic Party and the national security state—but the stain remains, and may yet be lethal to us all.
The words and deeds of social imperialists
Posted Mar 02, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (February 28, 2019) | The U.S. left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” that have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world. The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United States is that it is necessary to credit Bernie Sanders with making “socialism” a benign term in national political discourse.
How far in the future is the ban of psychotronic weapons?
- Advertisement - In March 2012, Russia's defense minister Anatoli Serdjukov said at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: "The development of weaponry based on new physics principles; direct-energy weapons, geophysical weapons, wave-energy weapons, genetic weapons, psychotronic weapons, etc., is part of the state arms procurement program for 2011-2020." The world media reacted to his hinting about the open use of psychotronic weapons by publishing scientific experiments from the...
Make MLK’s teachings part of school curriculum
Posted Jan 23, 2019 by Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report Radio (January 21, 2019) | Dr Martin Luther King’s writings and speeches “should be a part of the curriculum of public schools,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress, based in Newark, New Jersey. Young people should know that Dr King was a radical, a socialist, but are instead fed a sanitized version of the civil rights leaders life’s work, through media filters.
Ocasio-Cortez, socialism, war and austerity
Posted Jan 12, 2019 by Glen Ford Originally published: Black Agenda Report (January 10, 2018) | It’s good that there are now plenty of young people that like the idea of socialism. But if they don’t really know what socialism is, they also don’t know what capitalists will do to resist it. President Trump continues to toy with the idea of declaring a “national emergency” to push through his border wall and end the federal government shutdown.
Malcolm X would say Russiagate is a fool’s game
The Democrats and their media have fashioned a trap for Blacks and browns: accept endless foreign wars and domestic austerity in return for the representation of dark faces in high places in the governing hierarchy. The Kenyan proverb tells us, “When elephants fight, the grass suffers.” In contemporary capitalist circumstances, the raging split in the U.S. ruling class, now in its third year, tramples simple truths and common sense beyond recognition, stupefying the whole corporate herd.
Fascism is real, but the “resistance” is mostly fake
Fascism is always a danger under capitalism, with its frequent crises and endemic white supremacy, but the phony “resistance” is only concerned about electing Democrats. With last weekend’s election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, white men’s parties now lead governments that preside over the two largest concentrations of Black people outside Africa. Both Bolsonaro and Donald Trump are widely described as fascists–which is correct.
The great un-blackening: the corporate project to erase black people from politics
Corporate rule imposes a duopoly system in which one party is overtly white supremacist and the other party refuses to tackle racial oppression–but both pursue austerity and war.
Recommended reading from Mumia
The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, has high praise for historian Robin D.G. Kelly’s book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Depression. “Who knew that there were hundreds, possibly thousands of Black communists organizing in Alabama during the 1930s?” Abu Jamal asked.
Shaun King Embraces the FBI and CIA as Paragons of Justice
Shaun King is an activist in a bubble, hobbled by a shrunken worldview that makes him an ally of the same forces of racial and economic repression he purports to oppose. The stunted nature of King’s politics was laid bare in a July 18 article in The Intercept.
The Complexities of Black Community Control of Police
A key activist in the early Sixties grassroots movement to overthrow American apartheid recently asked if the current Black Lives Matter campaign will be able to sustain itself. In the near term, the answer is almost certainly, yes. The momentum of the mobilization will be propelled forward by the dogged determination of a new generation of activists, building on the skills and experience of previously vetted organizers and the quickening, soul-wrenching drumbeat of police murder and repression.
Russiagate is a ruling class diversion
So this is what we can look forward to in the long twilight of a shrinking U.S. empire: the shrieks of a delirious ruling class, concocting endless diversions from the central reality of late-stage capitalism’s inability to offer the people anything but widening wars and deepening austerity. The Lords of Capital have led us to a dark yet insanely cacophonous realm, a throbbing madhouse din.
How “Progressives” in the Black Caucus Shrunk to Almost Nothing
The “Russiagate” hysteria is only the latest reason to conclude that the Democratic Party is the greatest institutional impediment to the creation of mass “resistance” to onrushing war and never-ending austerity under late-stage capitalism.
Congressional Black Caucus Betrays Constituents for Pro-Police Agenda
The bigger the Congressional Black Caucus gets, the more it betrays its constituents. Last Wednesday, three out of every four members of the Black Caucus in the U.S. House voted to make assaults on police officers a federal hate crime. The Protect and Serve Act of 2018 is totally superfluous, since cops are already the most protected “class” in the nation.
How Much Longer Can the U.S. Remain a Superpower?
Having already violated every tenet of international law in its proxy jihadist war against Syria, including the seizure of one-third of the country, the United States invoked a Non-Law, a Law That Never Was, to justify its missile strikes against fictitious “chemical warfare” facilities.
NYT joins campaign to purge the term, "white monopoly capital" in South Africa | MR Online
“The Times fingered a British p.r. outfit as the culprit that popularized the belief that ‘white monopoly capital’ must be overthrown to complete the unfinished South African revolution.” The New York Times, the world’s premier journalistic purveyor of a “fake,” imperial, and profoundly white capitalist world view — masquerading as all the news that’s fit to print — wants us to believe that a now-bankrupt London-based public relations firm is behind South Africa’s regime-shaking debate over...
OpEdNews|Dear Doug Jones, all our rights depend on our right to vote and have our vote counted as cast
I wish I were in Alabama, working with your righteous campaign. After seeing "Selma" Friday night, for the second time, I fervently wish you had reels of the film to show all over Alabama now, including on Tuesday. I read last week about your sending to prison two of the four KKK men who in 1963 had bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, killing four African American girls - Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley.
OpEdNews|GOP Tax Bill: Major Battle Lost in War Between Top Down and Bottom Up
There is a war going on between the Top Down and Bottom up Forces in the world. Last night we saw a battle victory for the Top Down forces. But it is only a battle and the war is one that the Bottom up forces have a good chance of winning, eventually. The truth is, until the last twenty or so years, there was not much of a war between Top Down and Bottom up.
American Thanksgiving: A Pure Glorification of Racist Barbarity - Global Research
“The Thanksgiving story is an absolution of the Pilgrims, whose brutal quest for absolute power in the New World is made to seem both religiously motivated and eminently human….
President Trump Pushes Yet Another Problematic Immigration Bill | Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
President Trump on Wednesday endorsed a new GOP Senate bill that would slash legal immigration levels over a decade, apparently aimed at dramatically reducing legal immigration overall. The bill is a modified version of legislation proposed in April, which would have cut immigration in half, and focuses on cutting back what is known as “chain migration” — ways of immigrating to the U.S. based on family ties.
Scientists Successfully ‘Edit’ Human DNA for the First Time | Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
A team of U.S. and South Korean scientists have successfully “edited” human DNA, opening the door to future life-saving medical treatments as well as ethical questions.
It’s Time to Ask Again: Can a Sitting President Be Indicted? | Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
The Trump presidency has been a boon for at least three groups of people: late-night comics who see him as a boundless source of hilarity; conspiracy theorists panicked over the “deep state’s” machinations to subvert his electoral victory; and constitutional lawyers, scholars and commentators who feel compelled to survey the legal wreckage caused by the president’s policies and behavior. Count me among the latter. In my circles, the issue du jour is whether a sitting president can be indicted.
Trump’s Fossil-Fueled Foreign Policy | Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Who says President Trump doesn’t have a coherent foreign policy? Pundits and critics across the political spectrum have chided him for failing to articulate and implement a clear international agenda. Look closely at his overseas endeavors, though, and one all-too-consistent pattern emerges: Donald Trump will do whatever it takes to prolong the reign of fossil fuels by sabotaging efforts to curb carbon emissions and promoting the global consumption of U.S. oil, coal, and natural gas.
Failing Papers | Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
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