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Executive Editor Black Agenda Report; co-founder, America's Black Forum (TV); former White House, Capital Hill, State Department correspondent;The Big Lie

Plainfield, NJ USA
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Russiagate is a Ruling Class Diversion by Glen Ford Ruling class media work hard to keep us entertained, shocked and diverted from capitalism’s inability to offer anything but widening wars and deepening austerity.
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You cannot celebrate #MLK , who was on a government kill list, and #obama , a president with a kill list, @ same time
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Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives by Glen Ford Alicia Garza and her crew conducted what they claim is the biggest survey of Black political opinion ever -- but failed to ask a single question about foreign policy.
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Freedom Rider: How to Protest Trump by Margaret Kimberley If the British really oppose Trump’s policies they should dump their own government, which backs Washington to the hilt – and then they should apologize to the world for Britain’s crimes.
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The Bizarre Facebook Path to Corporate Fascism by Glen Ford “Russians” are indicted for lechoing rhetoric and memes of U.S. political struggles, while the people who are being mimicked are labeled co-conspirators in a foreign-based “plot.”
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Black Agenda Radio: U.S.-Backed Islamic Jihadists Hide Behind “White Helmets” The “White Helmets” have “committed a huge number of crimes against the Syrian people,” said Vanessa Beeley who, along with Eva Bartlett, exposed the fake humanitarians.
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Book Review: Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day by Carl Davidson Flint Taylor’s new book reveals Chicago as a racist police state where the entire criminal justice system was complicit in torture.
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Anti-imperial nations around the world are punished by #USA , who is using #Ethiopia as a goon squad against #Eritrea
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On class in Black politics. By Cedric Johnson & This Is Hell Johnson examines class in Black political life limits of electoralism and solely race-driven analyses vs the power of a Marxist materialist lens in understanding power dynamics iof capitalism
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Women’s March on the Pentagon? An Interview with Cindy Sheehan Leftish groups march on DC 6 figures strong several times a year. Cindy Sheehan wonders why have none marched on the Pentagon since the 1960s?
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Joe Biden Personifies a New “End of History,” This time for U.S. Imperial Rule by Danny Haiphong Biden’s open support of corporate oligarchy and disdain for Black America won him the hearts and minds of the ruling class.
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Freedom Rider: U.S. Escalates Syrian War by Margaret Kimberley – Having failed in its war of regime change in Syria, the U.S. seizes the nation’s oil fields and slaughters Syrian soldiers, confident that the U.S. public doesn’t give a damn.
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Glen Ford on Chris Hedges On Contact: The Con of Diversity Diversity is little more than black faces in high places, not the goal of radical transformation that puts power in the hands of ordinary people.
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Buffalo Soldiers Go To Africa by Mark Fancher #BlackTwitter Why should black Americans want to die in Africa? #AFRICOM #Imperialism
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Best jihadists money could buy couldn't break #Assad . #Obama was looking for regime change, only got ricochet.
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The Bankers’ “Power Revolution” -- How the Government Got Shackled by Debt by Ellen Brown Enshrined by law and custom, bondholder debt repaid by taxpayers is a naked transfer of wealth from the poor and workers to the super-rich.
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#liberals in #USA elect #presidents who liberally drop #drones & liberally bail out banks
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On behalf of #freedom & #democracy , #USA wars have claimed 30m casualties. Who will protect the world from #America ?
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Shaun King is “All In” with the FBI and CIA by Glen Ford Media spokesnegro Shaun King stands shoulder-to-shoulder with COINTELPRO assassins, CIA liars, grand jury-manipulating prosecutors and anybody else that smears Trump and Putin.
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When the Resistance is Really the Assistance By Bruce Dixon Dems voted 2 to 1 for the Pentagon budget, a space force, and drone bases covering most of Africa, including 36 of 64 in the Progressive Caucus and all but 8 of the Black Caucus.
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http://t.co/wRqOK3lK0p #Libya #refugeecrisis is direct result of a black Nobel Peace Prize winner that bombed #Africa http://t.co/mLWmzDKNL5
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Beware of Democratic candidates from marginalized groups. It's the ruling class trying 2 beat its #obama high score.
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Where #USA goes, terrorists it claims to fight go w/ it. #BokoHaram #AlShabaab #ISIL #AQIM
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7 years
Black Patriots love a flag that lynches, a country that terrorizes, & vets that bodyguard the noose & terrorists.
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Leftists whose political goals were buried alive by the Democratic Party should take the title of #getout to heart.
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#Grenfell : Hurricane Katrina of the UK. The dead are too poor to be correctly counted by neoliberal #Capitalism .
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Joe Biden Wants Us to Forget His Past. We Won't by Adolph Reed & Cornel West Joe Biden is the purest example of the corporate Democrats that turned the party decisively towards war, austerity and race-baiting in a previous elections.
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Freedom Rider: Russiagate and Black Misleadership by Margaret Kimberley The #bogusresistance beats its bipartisan chest and screaming at Moscow instead of giving people the right to health care and jobs and housing.
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Ken Burns "Vietnam" says 3 million dead Asians is a tragic miscalculation, not an enormous crime.
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#Obama wants to fully exterminate Black radicalism. First #Libya , then #BLM , and #Eritrea
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Recolonization of Africa by Endless War by Dan Glazebrook #BlackTwitter
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#obama got $400K for a speech to banker barons. He wanted cash, all $20's, so he can spy on #HarrietTubman for massa
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Ajamu Baraka: Most of the Congressional Black Caucus supported the gargantuan Trump war budget.
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http://t.co/AsVzUV1FNW Verbal goon of #Democrats & #Hillary2016 campaign scribbles 10K-word resume masked as critique http://t.co/ll3LMbOdcm
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If you support the #democratic party, take the words "anti-imperialist" and "socialist" out of your vocabulary.
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It's more than coincidence that #Eritrea is not rife with #religious sectarianism & not receiving any Western "aid"
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Morgan Freeman: War Whore Old guy who plays God in the movies rents himself out to Dems who want war with Russia
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#Britain shouldn't stop @ #EuropeanUnion . Why not leave #Nigeria , #Ghana , #SouthAfrica , etc?
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How's Edward Pinkney in #Prison while those who pumped #Flint 's guts full of lead walk free?
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#BillClinton was holding back his hatred of Blacks since 1990. Thanks to #BLM for evoking it
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Freedom Rider: Blacks Need To Stop Calling the Enemy “We” and “Us” by Margaret Kimberley RussiaGate has made Blacks lose their minds? Since when have the FBI, the CIA and European governments been friends of Black people anywhere on the planet?
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Freedom Rider: The United States Destroys Venezuela’s Economy by Margaret Kimberley The US is already waging economic war against Venezuela, but If Trump were to make good on threats to take military action, how many people would be in the streets?
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7 years
Philanthropy is a scam, thru which plutocrats exercise public power without public accountability.
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Turns out that #Africans are just as profitable when dead. Exploit 'em alive, park on their graves once deceased
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If you fight for #muslims ' rights, don't just fight when #Trump deplanes them, fight when a #Democrat #drones them
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#FidelCastro protected Assata Shakur & defended #Angola until victory.Will there ever be a greater internationalist?
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Glen Ford on Chris Hedges On Contact: The Con of Diversity Diversity is little more than black faces in high places, not the goal of radical transformation that puts power in the hands of ordinary people.
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Democratic Party Obsession with Capitalism and Militarism Will Grow Worse by 2020 by Danny Haiphong The #DemocraticParty is a political trap designed to capture and neutralize the most progressive constituency in the United States: Black America. Seems to be working...
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Freedom Rider: Russiagate Covers Up Black Vote Theft byMargaret Kimberley The Republicans stole the 2016 election but the same Democrats that failed to protect Black voting rights want to blame their defeat on Russia.
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The Lies of American Exceptionalism Danny Haiphong… the stories the US elite tell about can’t cover up the rot. The economic news is fake economics, the history is fake history, only names, faces, their color and gender change
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Black Agenda Radio Capitalism Incompatible With Democracy Some Democrats declare themselves socialists but never tell us what that means. Howie Hawkins Green candidate for NY gov says socialism is democratic control of the economy.
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7 years
#Trump may have temporarily averted #wwiii , but don't count on him to flip over the chessboard that dronebama played
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5 years
The Imperial Racist Saga Comes Home, Where It Began by Glen Ford What makes US progressives think that the Lords of Capital will be more tolerant of austerity-busting ‘socialists’ here at home than they are with Venezuela?
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8 years
Black people don't need a #lecture on #guncontrol , we need #community control of the #police
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What will " #MothersoftheMovement " say when casualties by #cops are increased under #Hillary ?
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6 years
Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris Destroyed Black Lives by Margaret Kimberley Kamala Harris has a long and ugly track record as a vicious San Francisco DA & and CA state attorney general, shoveling people by the thousand into the US prison gulag.
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6 years
The zionist project of maintaining an apartheid state near a large fraction of the planet's most easily accessible oil is essential to the maintenance of global empire.
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What does selling $100 billion in guns, starting a blockade & cholera epidemic buy you? A Nobel peace prize #obama
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Natoli: "Wealth is its own party and creates affiliations and affinities that GOP openly express and Dems conceal."
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Freedom Rider: British Collusion and Criminality by Margaret Kimberley Deep state collusion with the UK goes back generations, recently includes justifying war in Iraq, manufacturing a climate of pervasive hostility toward Russia.
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8 years
Let the #latteLeft define it: a "legitimate president" is one that serenades you as he robs you and drops #drones .
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8 years
What determines a successful revolution is daring to struggle & daring to win, not square mileage. #Eritrea #Cuba
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7 years
The ruling class loves delivering its moneyed message of Black pathology thru Negrobot mouthpieces like David Clarke
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8 years
A few things a #russianhack cannot do: bail out banks evict subprime #Victims mass incarceration endless #Warfare
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10 years
http://t.co/PneT6te7vx Despite corporate media portrayals of #Eritrea 's mining industry, self-determination is @ work http://t.co/wRB65vRati
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There's no "good brother" behind a kill list, #obama rolled up his sleeves to play #wallstreet & War Street tricks
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Letter to Kaepernick: Where Do You Go from Here? - Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor Long before the Nike deal it was clear that Kaepernick’s politics were being subsumed by other forces pushing a weak soup of “diversity” and “free speech.”
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Black-on-black #violence is invoked to make us accept, or appreciate, blue-on-black violence
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http://t.co/3Sq5H5ZGnV Small. Sanctioned. Socialist: #Eritrea , the Cuba of East Africa. http://t.co/ZYafWCmizn
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Kwame Nkrumah's life shows that Black liberation goes hand-in-hand w #African decolonization
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The world will never know #peace as long as Western #civilization is allowed to rule it
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6 years
Mumia Supporters Gear Up for Hearing Dr. Johanna Fernandez outlines how the conviction of #politicalprisoner Mumia Abu Jama is unraveling, and supporters demanding his release will gather in Philly Aug 30.
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#Google is perfecting #Orwell 's memory hole from 1984, making the left disappear w/ the algorithms of imperialism
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Assange Is Not a Journalist (If Journalists Are Ass-Kissing Propagandists for the Ruling Class) -by Ann Garrison Saying Assange not a journalist is like saying Darwin wasn’t a biologist, Einstein wasn’t a physicist and LeBron James can’t play basketball.
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On Dan Kovalik’s “The Plot to Scapegoat Russia" and "The Plot to Attack Iran” by BAR Book Forum Editor Roberto Sirvent Americans are the most uninformed, misinformed and ideologized people on the planet.
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Freedom Rider: Facebook and the Farrakhan Distraction -Margaret Kimberley In banning the only living person who can summon a million Black people to a meeting, Facebook is doing the bidding of the real fascists in the deep imperial state.
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Jihadists are the #CIA 's knights on the global chessboard. If #Trump really did try stopping them, he'd be gone 2mrw
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#TRUMP could learn from #obama : If he dressed his drones in Jonas Bros. jokes, he'd escape #watchdog investigations
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#USA has deployed #fakenews since its inception, but the version that challenges #StatusQuo must be punished. #Google
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y Eric Blanc Cory Booker rose to prominence as a fanatical backer of #schoolprivatization , but now poses as a friend of #publiceducation and teachers.
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Regime Change Coming Home? By Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence Limbo! How low can we go— Barr is set so low in its swamp draining elephantine donkey dung...
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#Israel & #Rwanda on the UN Human Rights Council. What's next? George Zimmerman & Darren Wilson doing Copwatch?
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Nothing rehabs an unpopular president in capitalist America like war says Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance For Peace
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The 2-party system is a game that we can win only by destroying the spectacle & its stadium
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Dozens Condemned by Media as ‘Gang Members’ Not Actually Gang Members, Study Confirms by Adam Johnson Corporate media are racist megaphones for the mass Black incarceration state, criminalizing whole communities like electronic lynch mobs.
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The death spiral of the #Democrats would be funny if they weren't taking so many minds to the grave with them
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Black People Don’t Need Bill Cosby’s Kind of “Race Man” by Glen Ford Cosby represents a Black American political right wing whose views of the Black poor are just as crude and dehumanizing as their white counterparts.
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http://t.co/sddZ6fxQpX #Ethiopia , proxy underling in #eritrea 's illegal occupation; #AlShabaab , all-purpose boogeyman http://t.co/Insu7SFzI0
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The media war on #Russia is not about #HillaryLost , it's about the ruling class seeking undisturbed world hegemony
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If the #democratic party couldn't save you from killer cops or killer #flintwater , how will it save you from #TRUMP ?
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There is no #Bernie . There is no #Hillary . There is no #Trump . Just American #Empire , chump!
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What were protesters doing when #obama made #TRUMP 's rhetorical fantasies a reality? Chanting "four more years!"
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The Black Panthers Still in Prison After 46 years, Will They Ever Be Set free? by Ed Pilkington “Every two years the Band-Aid gets ripped off your heart.” It’s Black August again, when we should remember our political prisoners.
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#AmyGoodman 's bias towards #RegimeChange in #Syria is so obvious that even war #veterans are protesting against her
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7 years
Why stop @ #confederate generals & slaveholding Presidents Let’s also dethrone drone strikers & kill list writers
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High Crimes and Misdemeanors – Not by Trump but Obama and Democrats by Ajamu Baraka Democrats and liberals have aligned with the FBI, the CIA and elements of the ruling class to provoke war with Russia, and possibly China, in order to bring down Trump.
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Had you fought #Obama when the time was right, you wouldn't have to march on Washington against #TRUMP now. #NDAA
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Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report says "Even Russian Dissidents Say Americans Have Gone Crazy Over Putin" #BlackTwitter #RussiaGate #Democrats
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The point of news about #wiretapping is to accustom Americans to surveillance w/o explanations or legal protections
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