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title=glen.ford@blackagendareport.com
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:38 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [BA_Report] The KONY Scam / Farewell Kucinich / Racist
Empire / Obama Role Model? - BAR March 14</DIV></DIV>
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<H2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" mce_style="font-weight: normal;"><B><A
title="Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony "
href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/social-media-scam-alert-top-ten-ways-tell-kony-phony"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/social-media-scam-alert-top-ten-ways-tell-kony-phony">Social
Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony </A></B></H2>
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<P><B>by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon<</B></P></DIV>
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mce_style="font-family: Arial;font-size: 15px;">A week ago Invisible Children
released a video that was immediately picked up and promoted by every corporate
news and entertainment outlet till it went "viral". Kony 2012 allegedly
"promote awareness" of and contributes to the end of child soldiering in Africa.
But is that really what it's about? Is it, like the old Save Darfur
war dance, another propaganda campaign to justify US intervention in
Africa?</SPAN> <A
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<H2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" mce_style="font-weight: normal;"><B><A
title="Freedom Rider: Farewell Congressman Kucinich"
href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-farewell-congressman-kucinich"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-farewell-congressman-kucinich">Freedom
Rider: Farewell Congressman Kucinich</A></B></H2>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT face=Times><FONT
size=2><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=3><B>b</B></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=3><B>y BAR editor and senior columnist
Margaret Kimberley</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT face=Times><FONT
size=2><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">With the gerrymandered defeat of Dennis
Kucinich, the Congress has lost its last, best progressive. "Called crazy or
wacky, Kucinich is nothing more than what other Democrats ought to be." Kucinich
stood firm, when all in the Progressive and Black Caucuses folded. "If there is
no room for one, not even </FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><I>one</I></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"> true
Democrat, then there should no longer be any allegiance to that
party."</FONT></FONT></FONT> <A
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<H2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" mce_style="font-weight: normal;"><B><A
title="The U.S. Empire's Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism"
href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/us-empire%E2%80%99s-achilles-heel-its-barbaric-racism"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/us-empire%E2%80%99s-achilles-heel-its-barbaric-racism">The
U.S. Empire's Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism</A></B></H2>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen
Ford</B></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>American racism will always cripple its
ability to occupy non-white countries, whose people the U.S. fundamentally
disrespects. "The United States cannot help but be a serial abuser of the rights
of the people it occupies, especially those who are thought of as non-white,
because it is a thoroughly racist nation." The latest atrocities in Afghanistan
are just par for the course.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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title="Obama Deserves Impeachment for War Policies, But Few Dare Say So - and Most of Them are Republicans"
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen
Ford</B></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>It has fallen mainly to Republicans to
challenge President Obama's military flaunting of both U.S. and international
law. A North Carolina congressman named Jones has submitted a resolution that
would hold Obama liable to impeachment if he attacks Syria or any other country
without an act of authorization from Congress. It is an action that "should have
emanated from the Congressional Progressive and Black Caucuses, rather than the
Republican Right."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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title="No FEAR: Chapter 3 -- Ultimatum To Public Service"
href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/no-fear-chapter-3-ultimatum-public-service"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/no-fear-chapter-3-ultimatum-public-service">No
FEAR: Chapter 3 -- Ultimatum To Public Service</A></B></H2>
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=3><B>by Marsha
Coleman-Adebayo</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Times, Times New Roman"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr.
Coleman-Adebayo, a heroine of the whistleblower movement, tells her story in the
book </FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><I>No Fear: A Whistleblowers Triumph
Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA</I></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif">. She is also an editor and columnist for Black Agenda
Report, and has graciously allowed us to serialize her book. This is the latest
installment.</FONT></FONT></FONT> <A
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title="Is Barack Obama a Fit Role Model for Black Youth? "
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>by Paul Street</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.06in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>The last refuge of the Obama apologist is
to hold up the president and his family as role models for Black America,
especially Black youth. The reality is that Obama has "</FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>put a technically black presidential face
on each of what the democratic socialist King called 'the triple evils that are
interrelated'</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><A
href="http://blackagendareport.com/#sdendnote1sym" name=sdendnote1anc
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2> - economic exploitation (capitalism),
racism." This alleged role model is better described as "the latest and
re-branded out-front Don Corleone for the biggest mob outfit of all time - the
white-owned and white-run American State-Capitalist Empire."</FONT></FONT> <A
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>The direct ancestors of today's high
stakes tests were "designed by racist pseudoscientists of the early 20th
century" to "prove that whites born in the U.S. were the most intelligent of all
peoples." Today's tests, championed by corporations and the Obama
administration, are designed to "prove that some students - Black students,
students of color generally and working-class kids - belong at the bottom."
Occupy movement teachers challenged the billionaires' minions to a
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 100%; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.06in"
mce_style="margin-bottom: 0.06in;line-height: 100%;">The first Black president
and first Black attorney general have so twisted the Constitutional guarantees
of due process of law, that "not only can American citizens be indefinitely
detained, they can also be assassinated by their own government at the will and
whim of their President." Eric Holder's interpretation of the nation's basic law
is both sinister and incompetent. "Holder sounds a lot like former Bush
administration counsel John Yoo, the author of the opinion justifying torture."
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT color=#4c1900><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=4><B>Civil Rights Groups "Dropped the Ball"
on Affirmative Action</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.06in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>In their zeal to help the Democratic
Party, mainline civil rights organizations have "dropped the ball" on
affirmative action, said Donna Stern, of By Any Means Necessary. "They are very
much responsible, in terms of their inactions, for the loss of rights that were
gained during the civil rights movement. Their deep ties to the Democratic
Party" means not talking about race, if they can avoid it," said Stern.
Detroit-based By Any Means Necessary mounted student demonstrations outside
federal district court in Cincinnati, where lawyers argued that referendums on
affirmative action be outlawed. "A white majority does not have the right to
vote up or down whether minorities have equal rights," said
Stern.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT color=#4c1900><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Obama: The Assassination
President</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.06in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;">"<FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>When the history books are written, Obama
is going to be known as the assassinations president," said Kevin Alexander
Gray, the Columbia, South Carolina-based writer and political activist.
"Everything that he has done in regards to the Constitution and transparency and
protecting human rights and the due process rights of all people, regardless of
nationality, has been a failure." Attorney General Eric Holder's narrow
definition of "due process" of law is really "the due process of the star
chamber. Traditional civil rights organizations have not moved to "checked"
Obama because "they are all in the tank for the administration," said
Gray.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT color=#4c1900><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Call to Support May 1 General
Strike</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.06in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>In an Open Letter to Occupy Wall Street
and the movement's supporters, OWS activist Dennis Trainor called a proposed May
1 general strike "one of the biggest opportunities to demonstrate our power, and
that we have not gone away." Organized labor cannot be expected to be central to
the action, because "the right to strike, for unions, has been all but taken
away." Rather, the strike would mobilize student and community groups in
targeted cities. Trainor's latest documentary, "Which Side Are You On?" is
scheduled for release at the end of April.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT color=#4c1900><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Bring Me the Head of Ed
DeMarco!</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.06in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>President Obama must fire Federal Housing
Finance Agency acting director Ed DeMarco because he "has flatly refused to do
any kind of principal reduction for the millions of 'underwater' homeowners that
are suffering, that are drowning in debt because of how the banks crashed the
economy," said Tracy Van Slyke, co-director of New Bottom Line. The coalition of
faith-based and community organizations demand a "minimum of $300 billion in
principal reduction." Van Slyke claims New Bottom Line and other Occupy Wall
Street-related efforts have "moved the administration far along from where they
were. We have moved the dial."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT color=#4c1900><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Obama and Wall Street Money</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.06in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>Scholar and activist Paul Street finds it
curious that at study of 68 most influential Wall Street firms shows the fat
cats giving Mitt Romney 12 times as much money as Obama. "The real test will
come when Obama and Romney go up against each other," said Street, author of
</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><I>The Empire's New
Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power</I></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>. He notes that Obama has held a record
191 fundraisers in the last year. "It would be pretty ironic" if Wall Street
abandoned Obama, said Street, "because he has given them everything they
wanted."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT color=#4c1900><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>UNAC Conference March 23-25</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.06in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>The United National Anti-War Coalition's
conference, in Stamford, Connecticut, "is THE antiwar conference and, perhaps,
the main conference on the left, this year," said UNAC spokesperson Joe
Lombardo. The Obama administration plans new aggressions, at home and abroad,
which is why they are narrowing the definition of "due process" of law. "What
they're really doing," said Lombardo, "is preparing for increased military and
economic attacks, and they don't want to see an opposition and a protest
movement built up." </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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