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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
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by BAR executive editor
Glen Ford
As many as five million people have died in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. A quarter million or so have perished in Darfur,
western Sudan. Both are abominations, genocides, crimes against humanity, but
only Darfur rates coverage in the U.S. corporate media, action by the United
States on the diplomatic and military front, or concerted interest by the
Congressional Black Caucus. The Congolese genocide, triggered directly by the
U.S. and its surrogates, is masked in silence. In Darfur, "Arabs" who are
indistinguishable from their Black African Muslim neighbors are demonized as
enemies in the "clash of civilizations."
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Sunday, 15 July 2007 |
 by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret
Kimberley
The Americans think it is ridiculous and
libelous to accuse them of acting like Nazis - and then they do. The planned
attack on Iran, a people we know no better than we knew the Iraqis, will be a
slaughter for which the world will hold the American people accountable. The
Democratic assemble of presidential candidates - with the exception of Rep.
Dennis Kucinich and former Sen. Mike Gravel - are all down for the debacle.
Blood seems to be as much a part of the campaign menu as money. The only party
that profits from this is the Israeli lobby, the biggest game in town.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
by BAR contributing
editor Harold Bridgeman
The author is a satirist, with a compelling
message. The story begins 100 years ago, when the "Triple Seven Blacks" met to
solve the African American problem. Since 1907, and then a half a century
later, it ain't solved yet, so the good Doctors had to convene another meeting.
Of course, the Triple Seven must gather incognito, at Arnellia's Bar. There,
they can deduce the African American situation in a warm and friendly setting.
High John, aptly named, is the High Priest of All Things Black. From Arnellia's
Bar, the impact of the Triple Seven deliberations will be felt...for the next 50
years.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
 by BAR contributing
editor Richard O'Connor
An Irishman fell in love with a Black woman, and then
found that he had also become socially Black in the United States. Apparently,
crossing the racial privilege line is a cardinal sin in the U.S. of
muthafuckin' A, even if you are nominally white. But how white are you? The
author takes us on his journey from just being an Irishman, to being treated as
a Black man in a White Man's Country. "They say black don't rub off. They're
wrong," he writes. Violation of the color code leads to blurring of one's own
color lines, in the eyes of the larger society.
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Monday, 16 July 2007 |
 by Askia Muhammad
Rep. Keith Ellison went along with the rest of
the U.S. Congress to condemn the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, for
advocating genocide of Israelis, as did all Congressional Black Caucus members
who voted. The Minnesota congressman has shown that he is not the Great Muslim
Hope, by any definition. Iraq's leader, President Ahmadinejad, never called for
the extermination of Israelis, but the U.S. media treats the lie as the truth.
Congressman Ellison, it seems, cannot resist the rule of the corporate
narrative, no matter how false. Is there really a Muslim in the U.S. Congress?
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The monstrous state that was created out of the
British engineered partition of India - Pakistan - has long since become an
American tool for mischief in the world, including nuclear  proliferation,
creation of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and an ongoing home for Osama
bin Ladin. It is blowback time. The American-financed regime cannot exist
without the support of Muslim fundamentalists, and yet the Americans now insist
that the regime move against its own political base. There are nuclear bombs in
this equation, developed with a wink and a nod from the Americans. If these
chickens come home to roost, it will be with incinerating force.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
by BAR executive editor
Glen Ford
 An invasion of Iran is imminent, because that is
the only solution the Bush gang and the corporate mafia it serves can conjure
to rally the American people behind their quest for global dominance. The
Democratic Party is one with the Republicans in the mission to subjugate
Tehran. Although the Iraq war failed to establish a New American Century, the
century ain't over, and the imperial ambition remains. Barack Obama stands in
the wings with a proposal to add 100,000 new troops to the military -
reinforcements for a depleted and overspent machine that has been ground to a
halt by Iraqi nationalists. When the ruling class demands unity of the people,
they call for war. The next one will be against Ayatollahs whose names none of
us can even pronounce.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
 by BAR editor and senior
columnist Margaret Kimberley
Tony Blair is out as British Prime Minister, but
remains an unrepentant racist and sub-imperialist poodle. He has been given a
new job, as Middle East "peace envoy." What a joke. How can a man who took an
unwilling nation into war against Iraq become a peace envoy? Blair is the worst
of the lot, a kiss-ass to George Bush who has placed his country in the
cross-hairs of worldwide Muslim anger. Blair has elevated state terror to a
level of British national identity - the terror that superpowers exert on
smaller peoples - and now the chickens are coming home to roost, with a British
label. Yet the criminal complains, "Why should anyone feel angry about us?"
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