Glen Ford
Glen Ford is the Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report. He can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.
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Views Friday, June 26, 2020 Yes, Defund the Cops–And Put Them Under Community Control "Street power’ will be dissipated if organizers leave the levers of power in the hands of local Democrats." Never in the modern history of the United States has an insurgent, Black-led movement been viewed favorably by such large majorities of whites. According to the latest New York Times/Siena... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 10, 2019 By Trying to Silence Sanders, the Corporate Media Delegitimize Themselves “The system was suffering a crisis of legitimacy: nobody believed the official narrative anymore.” Bernie Sanders’ campaign has finally gone full-throat with the obvious: the Democrat-aligned corporate media have thrown all journalistic principles to the wind to impose a “Bernie Blackout.” How can... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 08, 2016 Why the Feds Punk Out When Confronting White Rightwing Insurgents The armed right-wing activists that seized control of a federal wildlife sanctuary compound in eastern Oregon have already committed – and conspired to commit – enough serious criminal violations of U.S. law to land each of them in federal prison for the rest of lives. Of course, as Wajahat Ali... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 12, 2015 Arne Duncan’s Patently False Promise to Forgive Student Debts at For-Profit Schools “Enforcers for loan sharks don’t give debt holidays to the masses of victims.” Arne Duncan, President Obama’s Secretary of Education, claims his department is prepared to forgive the debts of thousands of students who attended the Corinthian Colleges, the for-profit rip-off conglomerate that filed... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 23, 2015 Obama, Master of Diversion, Proposes Bogus Reforms of Militarized Police “It is the MISSION of the police that is lethal, racist, oppressive and unacceptable to Black America; the equipment and clothing is incidental.” President Obama took his police “reform” shell game to Camden, New Jersey, this week, announcing a ban on the sale of some types of military equipment to... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 08, 2015 Bringing the Crisis to a Head in Baltimore “ The only thing that can work to fundamentally change the system for Black people – whether in the 21 st century or the Sixties – is mass organization for popular empowerment.” It’s been nine months since the Black youth of Ferguson, Missouri, set history in motion with their demand for justice... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 21, 2015 The U.S. Empire and ISIS: A Tale of Two Death Cults President Obama is a master of military supply and demand. His operatives and allies supply jihadists with enough weapons, financing and, in the case of Libya, a Euro-American air force, to plunge vast tracts of Africa and Asia into bloody chaos, thus creating a demand for intervention by the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 20, 2014 Ferguson Struggle Has Already Altered Black Politics After Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon notified the National Guard that he might be calling on their services any day now and declared a state of emergency in anticipation of massive demonstrations, he appointed a 16 member commission to study the underlying social and economic causes of Black discontent in... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 02, 2014 For Moment, the World Embraces the Cuba Model – and Slaps the Empire Revolutionary Cuba has always been a miracle and gift to all humankind. This week, the nations of the world – with two savage exceptions – instructed their emissaries at the UN General Assembly to tell the world’s self-designated “indispensable” country to end its 54-year-long trade embargo against... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 26, 2014 The Big Switch: Obama Preparing to Bomb His Way to Regime Change in Syria The U.S. offensive against ISIS in Syria will very soon revert to its original mission: regime change in Damascus, the strategic objective that unites America’s Euro-Arab-Turkish-Israeli coalition. Although U.S. military planners insist it will take eight months to a year to fully assemble and... Read more |