Glenn Ford of the “Black Agenda Report” says that President Obama is waging a phony fight for public relations purposes in the media verse the insurance agencies. Ford says it’s really a sham battle and the issue has in actuality already been decided. The insurance companies gained the biggest prize in 50 years, forcing even poor people to buy private medical insurance and if they don’t purchase medical ins ...

Seemingly out of nowhere a new anti-abortion group is running a national campaign on college campuses. The images this group present are frightening, disturbing, and infuriating. The Center for Bio-ethical reform CBRMidwest@cbrinfo.orga seemingly unheard of group, appeared on Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza early Monday morning with photos and leaflets to confront students with what it calls its “Genocide Awareness ...

Revolution Newspaper mentions this snippet: “In the health care debate, John Mackey (CEO of Whole Foods) raised up a storm among liberals last week with his op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal. Among Mackey’s cold-blooded comments, he pointed out: “Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A c ...

Vulnerable homeless people are the targets of increasing violence in America and California has one of the highest rates of attacks against people forced to live on the streets. The ‘Street Spirit’ newspaper tells readers: “Since 1999, more than 240 vulnerable homeless Americans have been stabbed, beaten, drowned, shot or burned to death in a revolting display of one of the last socially tolerated prejudice ...

Glenn Ford writes on his Black Agenda Radio commentary that in an ideological effort to attack Los Angeles teachers the city school board has voted to transfer one-third of its schools to private hands. Ford calls this ‘Corporate outsourcing now passes as education policy.’ Obama’s ploy may be the biggest one-time giveaway of public school property in US history. One treacherous aspect of the Obama scheme i ...

‘No More Deaths’ is an organization that leaves plastic water jugs in the desert along the US/Mexico border to help keep immigrants from dying of dehydration. US authorities are targeting the humanitarian activists for prosecution. In the desert the only source of drinkable water is what people can carry. Between 1998 and 2008 five thousand immigrants, men, women and children, died while trying to cross nor ...

Senator John Rockefeller is one of the fellows who has introduced a bill to establish an arm of the executive branch to be called ‘The Office of National Cyber Security Advisor.’ It would be like an office of Homeland Security for the Internet and would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic supposedly to protect Americans against threats to Internet infrastructure. All the Commander and Ch ...

This month, August 8th, 2009, police officers from New York City’s 43rd Precinct raided the home of activist Juanita Young. She is Black and has been outspoken against police murder and brutality. Over a dozen plains clothes police officers broke down her door, brutally attacked Juanita’s oldest son, James Ferguson, sexually assaulted Juanita’s oldest daughter, Saran while she held a baby in her arms and ar ...

The Supreme Court is rushing back from its summer break to rehear a case that could have important implications on the First Amendment and special interest money in political campaigns. The McCain-Feingold campaign finance law was created to ban soft money contributions to political parties and put restrictions on radio and TV advertisements funded by corporations or unions that are aired close to an electi ...

Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi has been released this week. He has been serving a life sentence as the only convicted person concerning the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland. He was released on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill. Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone said on their WBAI FM, Pacifica radio program ‘Taking Aim’ that it was really the US government wh ...