The Great Black Hole of Casino Capitalism
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordIf all the talk of economic “recovery” sound insane to the growing ranks of the unemployed and dispossessed, they're right. “The great investment banks are...
View ArticleAll Power to the Casinos! Death to the Social Safety Net!
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordGlobal capital is attempting to sound the death knell for European social democracy and its much weaker American cousin, the safety net. Bankers dictate the...
View ArticleThe Unraveling of the Empire of Finance Capital
by BAR executive editor Glen FordThe more the Wall Street financial class dominates political affairs in the United States, the sooner they will meet destruction. By giving the banksters everything...
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Obama’s Deficit Commission “Shows the Hand” of Corporate Democrats and Their Republican Allies, says NaderThe recommendations put forward by the two co-chairs of President Obama’s deficit reduction...
View ArticleMichigan’s “Emergency” Financial Regime: What Fascism Looks Like
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordMichigan’s Republicans are creating a legal model for American fascism for the benefit of Wall Street. The state’s new emergency financial management...
View ArticleBarack Obama and the Debt Crisis: a Successful Con Game Explained
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonWhat just happened? Did Barack Obama just save the world, and us from a looming debt catastrophe? Or has he just played good cop to the Republican bad cop in an...
View ArticleObama: The “Trust-Buster” Who Never Busted a Trust
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordObama claims that bailing out the banks “infuriated” him. Lucky for them. “When Obama supposedly got furious at the banks, he put the whole government and...
View ArticleEcocide & Genocide Are The Secrets of Capitalist Efficiency
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce A. DixonWe hear all the time about what geniuses the masters of capital, the lords of innovative technologies and global supply chains are. But are modern...
View ArticleLIBOR Ain’t Nothing But an Acronym: We Must Abolish the Finance Capitalist Class
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordThe LIBOR scandal is only a big deal, in that it shows once again that global capital is a thoroughly criminal enterprise. Tinkering will not do – the class...
View ArticleObama's Justice Department Rushes to the Rescue of LIBOR Criminals
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordThe Justice Department has launched a flurry of phony investigations in the LIBOR scandal, with the ultimate aim of protecting the banks from the...
View ArticleWall Street’s Untouchables
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordThe Obama administration is willing to cut an infinity of deals for the Lords of Capital. Two Crimes Of The Century in a row have produced no serious...
View ArticleDetroit is the Nexus of New American Apartheid
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford“What is emerging in the second decade of the 21st century is a new version of American Apartheid, in which the inhabitants of largely Black...
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