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Wed Jun 22 18:53:37 CDT 2011

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News, commentary and analysis from the black left

Imperial President Obama Pretends Not to 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."
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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."
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Hip-Hop and Forbes: Parallels of 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."

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Wal-Mart Swallows the 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." 
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Four Decades of Cruelty and Inhumanity to U.S. 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.

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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."
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Why Regime Change in Libya?

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." 

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The Media Fog of War

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."

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Americanism: The US Legacy of War, Imperialism and Racism

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.

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Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey - Week of 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 12th 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."

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