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Tuesday, 30 December 2008 |
Asks Congress to Stop Sending "Weapons of Mass Destruction"
"As we are about to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's
birthday, let us remember what he said. He said that the United States is the
greatest purveyor of violence on the planet. And guess what: we experienced a
little bit of that violence, because the weapons that are being used by Israel
are weapons that were supplied by the United States government."
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Some
folks like to call him "No-Drama Obama," but it appears that the
president-elect doesn't care how much drama he stirs up - on his Left. Obama
and his handlers should have known that bestowing the invocation honors to
"evangelical preacher/businessman" Rick Warren was sure to cause drama among
gays, as well as pro-choice advocates. But, "like Bush, Obama believes that he
is the decider. The Warren invitation is yet another instance of the
patronizing Obama telling the left that they shouldn't worry their pretty
little heads about anything that he decides is inconsequential."
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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The BAR team thanks our readers and supporters for your patience with us in the old year.
We promise to be worthy of your time and attention in 2009.
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
Black Agenda Report's Bruce Dixon interviews Chicago educator and activist George Schmidt
The short answer seems to be "yes." Before being appointed CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan never saw the inside of a classroom as a teacher. This is probably a good thing, since Duncan does not possess the academic qualifications to be even a substitute teacher. Worse still, Duncan's idea of improving inner-city schools in Chicago is handing them over to corporate-run charter schools or converting them to military academies. This, says longtime Chicago educator and activist George Schmidt, is not the change we voted for.
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
by Paul Street
Barack Obama likes to play basketball with his
friend Arne Duncan, but does that make Duncan worthy of the nation's top education
spot? If Obama's appointees are a reflection of the president-elect's own world
view, this one is quite disturbing. Paul Street writes: "Privatization,
union-busting (charter and contract schools operate union-free), excessive
standardized testing, teacher-blaming, military schooling, and the rollback of
community input on school decisions - these are the interrelated hallmarks of
private school graduate Arne Duncan's six and a half years at the helm of" the
Chicago Public Schools.
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez
A teacher/activist offers some holiday
ruminations on education: "Let us celebrate punitive testing, carved up tables
and chairs, chain link fence in the stairwells and high strung civil servants
who are just marking time until they can get away from the children of the
great unwashed." Not cheered up, yet? Let's think of kinder times and inspiring
educators, like Rex Fisher, who introduced the author "and my peers to the
words of David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delaney, WEB DuBois, Marcus
Garvey, Fannie Lou Hamer and Malcolm X -
and that was a rare thing from teachers in the public schools of 1973."
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
BAR features three radio commentaries per week for use by
broadcast and Internet radio (schedule them as you please), or simply for our
audience's listening convenience.
Enjoy
them, below:
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
 "Israel is taking measure of the incoming Obama
administration's sensibilities to the spilling of Palestinian blood in the
besieged enclave of Gaza."
To hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, click the flash player below
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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"A four-person,
congressionally-appointed panel stands between the most voracious thieves ever
assembled, and the wealth of a nation."
To hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, click the flash player below
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
 The U.S. cannot pay
for recovery and fund its wars, too. Barack Obama must choose between the imperial
military and saving what's left of the economy.
To hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, click the flash player below
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet
In these historic and unprecedented times, questions of great importance loom before us. Latte or mocha? Chili dogs or sauerkraut? Leather or cloth interior? Our choices, the learned and knowledgeable tell us, do matter. No, really, they do! The Seven Foot Poet agrees. Mostly.
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
by
Rady Ananda
The American Prison Gulag, already one-half
Black, is becoming increasingly co-ed. "The US jailed one in
746 women in 2006, up from one in 100,000 back in 1925. Compared to other
nations, the female portion of the prison population is highest in the US - at
9%." Melissa
Mummert's film, Perversion of Justice, tells the "story of Hamedah Hasan
and her three children" to "exemplify the need to repeal the Sentencing Reform
Act of 1984, and the mandatory minimum laws."
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
by Stephen Gowans
The corporate news media, especially in Britain,
constantly rail against the state-owned press in Zimbabwe, charging The
Herald and The Sunday Mail with acting as "mouth-pieces" for
President Robert Mugabe. But "coverage of foreign affairs in the West is almost
wholly dominated by news media that are controlled by the wealthy, operating to
amplify the views of the Council on Foreign Relations and high state officials
who are either wealthy themselves or owe their position to the patronage of the
wealthy." In southern Africa, so-called "independent" media are in fact funded
by the British or U.S. governments. The Zimbabwean state has every right to
defend itself, through media.
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
by Anthony Fenton
The emerging doctrine of "Responsibility to
Protect" (R2P) is an insidious pretext (and strategy) for imperial intervention
in the affairs of weaker nations. Haiti was the laboratory for developing R2P
as a rationale for theft of a people's sovereignty. Barack Obama may be a
convert. "Some of Obama's key cabinet picks (namely Susan Rice,
and Hillary Clinton) and advisors close to the incoming administration's camp
(most notably top Clinton advisor Lee Feinstein, Samantha Power, and Anne-Marie
Slaughter) are well-known advocates for R2P's "operationalization."
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