[Peace-discuss] Fw: [BA_Report] Obama Denies Libya War / Hard News vs Viagra / Wal-Mart Supreme - BAR June 22

"E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" ewj at pigs.ag
Wed Jun 22 19:09:09 CDT 2011


Mr. O'bama has been a liar and a fake from the beginning.

Americans really seem to like that in a leader.

Also he ain't "black".  He's fake on that, too.


On 06/23/11 7:53, David Johnson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* glen.ford at blackagendareport.com 
> <mailto:glen.ford at blackagendareport.com>
> *To:* ba_report at lists.blackagendareport.net 
> <mailto:ba_report at lists.blackagendareport.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:05 PM
> *Subject:* [BA_Report] Obama Denies Libya War / Hard News vs Viagra / 
> Wal-Mart Supreme - BAR June 22
>
> *Black Agenda Report*
> *News, commentary and analysis from the black left*
>
> *Imperial President Obama Pretends Not to Wage War 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/imperial-president-obama-pretends-not-wage-war>*
>
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/obama-general-patton-warmonger-afghanistan-war-commander-chief.jpg 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/imperial-president-obama-pretends-not-wage-war>
> *by BAR executive editor Glen Ford*
> What to do when you've engaged in one imperial war too many? Deny it's 
> a war. Obama is well versed in the history of his European allies, who 
> been at war with the rest of the world for five hundred years, often 
> annihilating whole peoples without ever formally declaring war against 
> them. "America's First Black President is wholly compatible with the 
> old-school imperialists of Europe, now reborn and rejuvenated through 
> NATO as the unchallenged masters of Africa."
>
>     * Read more
>       <http://blackagendareport.com/content/imperial-president-obama-pretends-not-wage-war>
>
> *Freedom Rider: Viagra, Gay Bloggers and Phony News 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-viagra-gay-bloggers-and-phony-news>*
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/phony_syrian_lesbian.jpg 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-viagra-gay-bloggers-and-phony-news>
> *by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley*
> U.S. corporate media are high-paid scribes, "dutifully repeating the 
> words of the king in hopes of currying favor and gaining access." War 
> doesn't victimize truth, the overseas press corps does. The assault on 
> Libya is real, but the coverage is an invention. Facts about the NATO 
> assault get in the way of elaborate fictions. "The bombing of a 
> university in Tripoli, Libya ought to create a sensation, but that 
> information never makes it onto the front pages."
>
>     * Read more
>       <http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-viagra-gay-bloggers-and-phony-news>
>
>
> *Hip-Hop and Forbes: Parallels of Image and Inequality 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/hip-hop-and-forbes-parallels-image-and-inequality>*
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/not_a_business_man.jpg 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/hip-hop-and-forbes-parallels-image-and-inequality>
> *A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR editor and columnist Jared A. 
> Ball*
> The racial disparities endemic to American life are reflected even in 
> the pages of /Forbes, /the elite magazine/./ Hip hop is represented in 
> /Forbes'/ list of top music money-makers, but with earnings far below 
> pop artists. Similarly, the National Urban League's annual report 
> shows Black families continuing to earn far less than whites. 
> Spotlighting high profile Blacks in entertainment - and politics - 
> "masks Black suffering while enriching a mostly White, male elite."
>
>     * Read more
>       <http://blackagendareport.com/content/hip-hop-and-forbes-parallels-image-and-inequality>
>
> *Wal-Mart Swallows the Supreme Court 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/wal-mart-swallows-supreme-court>*
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/wal-mart_swallows_small_businesses.jpg 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/wal-mart-swallows-supreme-court>
> *A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford*
> It's been called a "Death Star," the fastest runner in the global Race 
> to the Bottom, a jobs killer, a big-box plantation. So, swallowing the 
> U.S. Supreme Court, whole, was nothing for Wal-Mart. The trick is to 
> always do evil in the biggest possible way. With 1.5 million female 
> victims, the High Court decided the Wal-Mart employment discrimination 
> case was "too large and too varied to handle in a single class action 
> suit."
>
>     * Read more
>       <http://blackagendareport.com/content/wal-mart-swallows-supreme-court>
>
> *Four Decades of Cruelty and Inhumanity to U.S. Political Prisoners 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/four-decades-cruelty-and-inhumanity-us-political-prisoners>*
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/free_all_political_prisoners_1.jpg 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/four-decades-cruelty-and-inhumanity-us-political-prisoners>
> *A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford*
> More than ever, the United States is quick to charge other nations 
> with abuse of political prisoners, and to urge indictment of heads of 
> state for doing harm to their own citizens. Yet, the nation with the 
> world's highest incarceration rate and a justice system saturated with 
> racism claims to have no political prisoners. In fact, scores have 
> been held under cruel and unusual conditions for three and four decades.
>
>     * Read more
>       <http://blackagendareport.com/content/four-decades-cruelty-and-inhumanity-us-political-prisoners>
>
> *Dangerous Distortions: Anti-Abortion Fascists and Third World Allies 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/dangerous-distortions-anti-abortion-fascists-and-third-world-allies>*
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/misgynist_propaganda.jpg 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/dangerous-distortions-anti-abortion-fascists-and-third-world-allies>
> *by Sikivu Hutchinson and Diane Arellano*
> Just as the Right puts a "Black" spin and face on its rabid assaults 
> on Black women's reproductive rights, so, too, in the Latino 
> community. These same Right forces simultaneously oppose all measures 
> for racial equality, immigrant rights and promotion of the general 
> welfare. "Criminalizing choice and undocumented immigrants is part of 
> a larger scheme in which big government eliminates the rights of the 
> underclass and expands "social welfare" for corporations, the wealthy, 
> and the military industrial complex."
>
>     * Read more
>       <http://blackagendareport.com/content/dangerous-distortions-anti-abortion-fascists-and-third-world-allies>
>
> *Why Regime Change in Libya? 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/why-regime-change-libya>*
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/feasting_on_libya.jpg 
>
> *by Ismael Hossein-zadeh*
> The Libyan people are paying the price for Moammar Gaddafi's 
> insubordinate behavior to the Godfathers of global finance capital: 
> the U.S. and Europe. "Gaddafi's sin for being placed on imperialism's 
> death row consists largely of the challenges he posed to the free 
> reign of Western capital in the region, of his refusal to relinquish 
> Libya's national sovereignty to become another unconditional 'client 
> state' of Western powers."
>
>     * Read more
>       <http://blackagendareport.com/content/why-regime-change-libya>
>
> *The Media Fog of War 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/media-fog-war>*
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/bombs_over_somewhere.jpg 
>
> *by Coy McKinney*
> Don't believe the hype! Especially the hype form the U.S. corporate 
> media about Libya. "During times of war propaganda is used to justify 
> military action for special interests." Corporate media are megaphones 
> for government propaganda, but the truth is available, elsewhere. 
> "Once we consider issues such as who the Libyan rebels are and what 
> role oil, banking, previous planning, and geopolitics play in the 
> situation, it seems that history is repeating itself."
>
>     * Read more <http://blackagendareport.com/content/media-fog-war>
>
> *Americanism: The US Legacy of War, Imperialism and Racism 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/americanism-us-legacy-war-imperialism-and-racism>*
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/civil_war.jpg 
>
> *by Solomon Comissiong*
> America's crimes are legion, beginning with the first European 
> incursion five centuries ago. Rather than teach the truth, "America's 
> schools have long glorified this country's filthy legacy of war, 
> imperialism, and conquest." Turning the world on its head, "Americans 
> have been programmed into thinking that they are under constant threat 
> by boogeymen" - when, in fact, their own country is the boogeyman of 
> the planet.
>
>     * Read more
>       <http://blackagendareport.com/content/americanism-us-legacy-war-imperialism-and-racism>
>
> *Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford 
> and Nellie Bailey - Week of June 20, 2011 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/black-agenda-radio-progressive-radio-network-glen-ford-and-nellie-bailey-%E2%80%93-week-june-20-2011>*
> http://blackagendareport.com/sites/www.blackagendareport.com/files/imagecache/feature400/prn_montage_20110622.jpg 
> <http://blackagendareport.com/content/black-agenda-radio-progressive-radio-network-glen-ford-and-nellie-bailey-%E2%80%93-week-june-20-2011>
> *McKinney Denounces Libya Bombing; Actions Planned*
> "I have been an eyewitness to terror," says *Cynthia McKinney*, the 
> former Georgia congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate 
> whose fact-finding delegation to Libya observed some of the heaviest 
> NATO bombing of Tripoli, the capital. The U.S. corporate media are 
> present in Libya, "but the truth is nowhere to be found," McKinney 
> told a press conference across the street from United Nations 
> Headquarters in New York City. She is a featured speaker in a 
> nationwide tour sponsored by the ANSWER Coalition, beginning in Harlem 
> on June 25.
> *Ramsey Clark*, former U.S. attorney general and also part of the 
> ANSWER tour, called NATO's attack on Libya "the last of a long line of 
> assaults on Arab and Muslim peoples." He challenged the United 
> Nations: "Are the people of the planet powerless to end this tyranny 
> of violence?"
> *Viola Plummer*, of the December 12^th Movement, says "Africa is in 
> the crosshairs," the "focal point for the Empire's recolonization." A 
> long list of organizations is planning a "Millions March in Harlem" to 
> demand an "end to the bombing of Libya, the illegal sanctions on 
> Zimbabwe," and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "destruction of 
> education, housing and health care" in the city.
> *Min. Louis Farrakhan*, leader of the Nation of Islam, denounced the 
> United Nations "and all those who have joined to destroy Brother 
> Leader Moammar Gaddafi." UN Resolution 1973 is being used as a 
> "pretext to assassinate" Gaddafi and "create regime change," he said. 
> "England, France, Germany, Italy and the United States do not have a 
> good humanitarian history," and are angry because Gaddafi pushed the 
> foreigners out of Libya, "closed their bases and nationalized its oil."
> *Obama's War Powers Position is "Ludicrous"*
> *Bruce Fein*, author of "American Empire: Before the Fall" says, "If 
> another country did to us what we are doing to Libya, we would 
> incinerate it with nuclear weapons." As to President Obama's 
> contention that the U.S. is not at war with Libya and, therefore, the 
> War Powers Act has not been triggered, Fein says, "If it's not war, 
> then the United States is committing murder in Libya." The White House 
> also claims that no state of war exists because U.S. personnel are in 
> little danger. Says Fein: "The same would be said if the U.S. launched 
> ICBMs with nuclear warheads and utterly destroyed a country," without 
> itself sustaining casualties.
> *Frances Boyle*, professor of international law at the University of 
> Illinois College of Law, called Obama's position "an insult." He says 
> the War Powers Act is triggered by "hostilities" with another state. 
> Another provision states the legislation comes into play "any time we 
> are armed in the airspace of another state." Boyle is offering his 
> services to any congressperson that wants to draw up a Bill of 
> Impeachment against the president.
> *Bill Quigley*, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, points out 
> that candidate Obama spoke against the rise of an imperial presidency. 
> "This is like the King wearing no clothes," said Quigley, calling 
> Obama's legal stance "ludicrous." There is little prospect of judicial 
> restraints on the White House, because "the courts are cowardly." The 
> Congress may be making loud noises, but the president is telling them, 
> in effect: "I know you're not going to do anything about it."
>
>     * Read more
>       <http://blackagendareport.com/content/black-agenda-radio-progressive-radio-network-glen-ford-and-nellie-bailey-%E2%80%93-week-june-20-2011>
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