[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
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> *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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