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Glen Ford is aveteran of Black radio, television, print and Internet news and commentary. He is executive editor of BlackAgendaReport.com and was co-founder of BlackCommentator.com.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 21, 2020 Black Misleaders Back Susan Rice as Top Diplomat
Genocide in Congo and militarization of the African continent are Susan Rice's specialties, but Black Democrats see her as a "role model."
"Rice cultivated relations with every pro-U.S. warlord in Africa."
(16 comments) SHARE Friday, October 30, 2020 The Billionaires' Duopoly Wins on Tuesday
In terms of relationships of power, there will be no change of regime as of result of the vote on November 3, and therefore no reason not to mount a "Black People's March on the White House" on November 7.
Power to the People! Dismantle the Duopoly!
SHARE Tuesday, October 20, 2020 Anti-Blackness Spread by Global Capital
The ideology of anti-Blackness is both a prerequisite to the rise of capitalism and a product of its spread around the world, said Adam Bledsoe, a professor of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota.
(18 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 8, 2020 Bidens and Trumps, Foxes and Wolves
The job of the Black Misleadership Class - who are the 21st century version of Malcolm's "house Negroes," only now holding high executive and elected positions -- is to vouch for the sincerity of their white corporate overlords and to keep the Black masses in check.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 30, 2020 The Politics That Led to the "Worst Debate"
The incoherence of the Biden-Trump debate will be repeated every election cycle until Blacks and progressives break with the corporate duopoly.
"There is nothing smart or 'strategic' about falling for the same trick every election cycle."
SHARE Monday, September 28, 2020 The People Will Establish a Green New Deal
With corporate Democrats no more receptive than Republicans to Green New Deal legislation, it will be up to "the movement" to combat the climate crisis, said Yolian Ogbu, and activist with This Is Zero Hour.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 24, 2020 You Can't Understand Capitalism Without Race
The centrality of race in the development of capitalism continues to be resisted by "the sort of hardline, orthodox folks who only look at class,
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 15, 2020 Reneging on George Floyd Promises: The Minneapolis Police Name-Change Con
When Black Lives Matter chapters demand "abolition" and "defunding" of the police, rather than community control of the cops, they play into the hands of the charlatans and misleaders on city councils and in the halls of Congress, for the simple reason that no legislative body will totally abolish local armed security forces.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 1, 2020 The Black Caucus and the Dictatorship of (White) Capital
Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers.
"Clearly, the Democratic Party is the mechanism that spawns and nurtures Black politicians answerable to the Dictatorship of (White) Capital."
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 19, 2020 Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change - So Give Them No Choice
We must not wait on capitalist crises to further devastate our communities. Rather, the movement must create a political crisis for the ruling oligarchy by agitating to actually end their rule.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 11, 2020 AFRICOM Enforces US Colonial Project
"We see AFRICOM as the colonization of Africa by the US," said Tunde Osazua, of the Bllack Alliance for Peace. "Instead of working to end terrorism and stabilizing the African continent, "said Osazua, the US Military Command in Africa "actually destabilizes the continent."
SHARE Thursday, June 18, 2020 What Community Control of Police Means
Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce; it's time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement's social penetration.
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 4, 2020 The Movement Gets BIG - and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves
The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people's willingness to confront power through the politics of the street.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 31, 2020 The Blue Plague and Black Death
"The Blue Plague is a serial killer that dates back to the slave patrols of the pre-Civil War South."
The pathogen that kills Black people at two and a half times the rate of whites took the life of 46 year-old George Floyd , this week in Minneapolis.
SHARE Thursday, April 16, 2020 Capitalist Healthcare Is a Contradiction in Terms
Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital like the killer virus cares for nothing but reproducing itself.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 29, 2020 Time of Plague and Meltdown: Mass Murder
The shrinking of the public health sector is a capitalist crime, abetted by the two corporate parties.
"There is now no possibility of avoiding many tens of thousands of deaths due to a shortage of equipment, beds and health care personnel."
SHARE Monday, March 23, 2020 Late-Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions
The epidemic reveals the stark truth, that the US dismantled and privatized its public health system, to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent. A lowly virus, a form of being that exists at the very border between "life" and "not-life" has revealed the world's superpower as butt-naked and very much afraid.
SHARE Thursday, March 12, 2020 The Corporations and Their Media Strangled Bernie, and Older Black Voters Tied the Knot
There really is no more to the clap-trap about a Black electoral "strategy" than attempting to figure out which way the white folks are going and then circling the Black wagons, accordingly.
"Black have been convinced by corporate media that white folks will hold Sanders' socialism against him and allow Trump another mandate."
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 22, 2020 Bloomberg Wants to Swallow the Democrats and Spit Out the Sandernistas
No one knows how much abuse and humiliation the Sanders faction is willing to endure to remain in the bosom of the corporate political beast. They remained faithful to their tormentors in 2016, and most are probably still inclined to give their corporate abusers yet another chance.