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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:49 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [BA_Report] Nuked Out Black Leaders / U.S. Invading Africa
/ Obama Thrill Is Gone - BAR, June 13</DIV></DIV>
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<H1 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" mce_style="font-weight: normal;"><B></B></H1>
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<H2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" mce_style="font-weight: normal;"><B><A
title="Bankrupt Black Leadership, Nukes and Environmental Racism"
href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/bankrupt-black-leadership-nukes-and-environmental-racism"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/bankrupt-black-leadership-nukes-and-environmental-racism">Bankrupt
Black Leadership, Nukes and Environmental Racism</A></B></H2>
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mce_style="font-size: medium;font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">by BAR managing
editor Bruce A. Dixon</B></P></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.08in" mce_style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif">The same greedy corporations that have long funded
white politicians now finance what used to be traditional civil rights
organizations like SCLC and an entire new class of black politicians. The
cutting loose of black political leaders from their constituencies has dire
consequences for the entire American polity.</FONT></DIV>
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<H2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" mce_style="font-weight: normal;"><B><A
title="U.S. Escalates Military Penetration of Africa"
href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/us-escalates-military-penetration-africa"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/us-escalates-military-penetration-africa">U.S.
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<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.06in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"
mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>by BAR executive editor 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>The Americans are preparing to establish a
network of bases in Africa, initially to serve a 3,000-troop roving brigade to
be deployed on the continent, next year. The brigade has all the markings of a
permanent presence on African soil, while the bases are euphemistically called
"safe communities." U.S. influence over African militaries is already pervasive.
With the establishment of joint bases, "regime change will never be farther away
than a drink at the officers club." All but a handful of Black African states
routinely take part in military maneuvers staged by the Americans.</FONT></FONT>
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<H2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" mce_style="font-weight: normal;"><B><A
title="Freedom Rider: The Obama Thrill is Gone"
href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-obama-thrill-gone"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-obama-thrill-gone">Freedom
Rider: The Obama Thrill is Gone</A></B></H2>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=3><B>by BAR editor and senior columnist
Margaret Kimberley</B></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">Few predict that Barack Obama will
generate the Black turnout that propelled him to victory in 2008. "A small but
growing number" of Black former Obama enthusiasts "have grown weary of the
charade and know they have been played for fools." Race pride motivated them the
first time around, but that is harder to muster for "a man who never saw them as
anything more than saps who would vote for him no matter what he said or
did."</FONT></FONT></FONT> <A
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<DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.06in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"
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>
<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>After ten years of escalating police
aggression on the streets of New York, a broad range of political actors have
combined for a Silent March Against Racial Profiling, this Sunday. Under Mayor
Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk regime, "</FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>every young Black and brown man in New
York is treated as if </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
size=2><I>he</I></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2> is
walking contraband, and that </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
size=2><I>he</I></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2> is
'too hot' to allow to walk about freely." In practice, the policy is little
different from racist South Africa's apartheid pass system.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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title="Chicago Teachers Gear Up for a Fight"
href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/chicago-teachers-gear-fight"
mce_href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/chicago-teachers-gear-fight">Chicago
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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>The Chicago Teachers Union has gotten
permission from its membership to strike. If it comes to that, the local union's
progressive leadership will also "confront the national leadership of their own
union, the American Federation of Teachers, who are in President Obama's and
Mayor Emanuel's pockets." Chicago's teachers understand that they can only win
if the community views the teachers' cause as their own. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<H2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal" mce_style="font-weight: normal;"><B><A
title="What Do Hollywood Executives Call Beyonce, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry? Nigger."
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>by Cynthia McKinney</B></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>Hollywood is usually described as a
politically liberal place, but legal actions by two Blacks in the entertainment
industry claim that vocabularies in Tinsel Town are routinely laced with words
like </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>"nigger,"
"spade," "colored," "monkey," "nigga," "uncle tom," "spook," and "coon." What's
more, they've got the documents to prove it.</FONT></FONT> <A
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title="Hooked On Hopium"
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=4><B>Black Politics Neutered by Corporate
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>The business-friendly African American
politicians that came to prominence under President Clinton "prioritized
electoral politics over mass movements and grassroots politics," said
</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><B>Dr. Anthony
Monteiro</B></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>,
professor of African American studies at Temple University, in Philadelphia. In
more recent years, "a good part of the soft Black Left, the weak Black Left -
they call themselves the 'pragmatic' Black Left - capitulated to the Obama
movement," allowing corporate politicians to achieve unchallenged leadership
among Blacks.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Inventing Security Threats</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;">"<FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>In the wake of 9/11, we have made policing
into a business," said Black Agenda Report managing editor </FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><B>Bruce Dixon</B></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>, speaking on Press TV. The Department of
Homeland Security is mostly private contractors who are chiefly concerned with
drumming up business. "It's a growth industry," said Dixon. "So, look out - you
might be the next threat." The U.S. government has been inventing threats to
internal security "for at least 100 years," said journalist </FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><B>Don DeBar</B></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>, of <A
href="http://CPRmetro.org">CPRmetro.org</A>. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Servants of Empire in "Human Rights"
Garb</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;">"<FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>Amnesty International and Human Rights
Watch are, essentially, weapons in the imperial arsenal," said BAR executive
editor </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><B>Glen
Ford</B></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>. "Who better
than self-styled human rights activists to justify 'humanitarian'
war?"</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Prof. Cornel West on Black Mass
Incarceration</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;">"<FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>If our precious white brothers and sisters
were going to jail at the intensity" that African Americans are incarcerated,
"it would be a national emergency," said </FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><B>Dr. Cornel West</B></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>, speaking at a benefit for the Brecht
Forum, at New York City's Hunter College. "If Black middle class brothers and
sisters were going to jail at the same level of intensity" as lower class
Blacks, "we'd have a different kind of Black leadership."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>Liberal" Contradiction: Support for Charter
Schools</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;">"<FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>Liberals" are seduced by "this virtuous
narrative, that these 'reforms' are going to make things better for poor kids,"
said journalist </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
size=2><B>Liza Featherstone</B></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>. She singled out Black New York State
Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a "progressive" congressional candidate who is "at
the forefront of efforts to open up the public school system to private
interests" - a position that is "fundamentally at odds" with the progressive
agenda. The fact that there's lots of campaign money behind charter schools
expansion "doesn't hurt," said Featherstone.</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>A "Human Rights" Approach to Public
Education</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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mce_style="margin-top: 0.06in;margin-bottom: 0in;"><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>The "business model" of education holds
that "the student is a product, the teacher is a production line worker, and the
parent is a consumer who has 'choices,'" said </FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><B>Dr. Sam Anderson</B></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>, of New York's Independent Commission on
Public Education, ICOPE. The business model is an attempt by hedge funders and
other business interests to "exploit the trillion dollar trough of public
education." ICOPE advocates a "human rights approach to education that "promotes
the intellectual development of children to their maximum capability," with
"direct parental involvement in decision making at the public school
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