Originally posted on December 30 at Black Agenda Report By BAR staff Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has called upon President-Elect Barack Obama to “please, say something about the humanitarian crisis that is being experienced by the Palestinian people, by the people of Gaza.” McKinney spoke to CNN news from the Lebanese city of Tyre, [...]
By David Bruderly To the editors of the Ocala (FL) Star Banner and the Gainesville (FL) Sun: Regarding your news article today that features Congressman Clifford Stearns (R., 6th congressional district, Florida) posturing as the “Tough Cop” on the Wall Street fiasco, Stearns may act like the tough cop but in the real world he [...]
Mark it down for the sake of history: 4:30 P.M. Tuesday December 23, 2008 and at this unusually early time I have done the last bit of my Christmas shopping: seems that everything I’m giving is either something to eat or something with which to cook. As the Checkers ads say, “you gotta eat” and [...]
By Glen Ford Having failed in deploying Ethiopia as its proxy in the war against Somalia, the United States now attempts to rally Europe and as many African stooges as it can muster to gang rape the Somalis into submission. Two years ago, the Americans encouraged Ethiopia to invade its neighbor, to overthrow a young [...]
In the current flurry of concern over whether Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich attempted to swap the appointment of Obama associate Valerie Jarrett to replace him in the Senate for a cabinet appointment for himself, it is easy to lose sight of the larger pay-to-play dynamics that have gone into Obama’s cabinet selections (or probably those [...]
This is Part 1 of a two-part series. by Shannon J. Prince With the recession imperiling the nation’s well-being, poverty is on everyone’s mind regardless of their political orientation. Yet too often the poor are cast as ignorant and impotent pawns needing either a kick in the pants or a magical cocktail of resources and [...]
On December 3 New York Times op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman published an essay titled “Calling All Pakistanis,” in a column widely syndicated throughout the U.S. In this essay, Friedman stays close to his usual Islamophobic form as he raises the question why Pakistani Muslims are not protesting against Pakistanis who are allegedly involved in the [...]
by Glen Ford If you believe that Barack Obama will pursue a policy in the Horn of Africa that is substantially different than that of George Bush, you are in for a deep disappointment. Only weeks after Ethiopia’s U.S.-instigated invasion of Somalia almost two years ago, Susan Rice, Obama’s choice for Ambassador to the United [...]
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