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Corporate Media Makes Greens Invisible
August 6, 2008A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
Democracy is impossible when corporate media act as “supreme arbiters of which ideas, parties and candidates are permitted to effectively compete in the public arena.” Big Media in the U.S. specialize, not so much in disseminating information, but in spreading ignorance by censoring realities they don’t like. The Washington Post refuses to cover the Statehood Green Party, despite the fact that they are the number two vote-getters - outpolling Republicans - in the nation’s capital. As Green Party national standard bearers Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente point out: “It is equivalent to rigging an election.” Democracy has nothing to do with it.
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Obama talks like Martin Luther King but votes like Bush Bush
July 25, 2008“Obama talks like Martin Luther King but votes like Bush.”- Matt Gonzalez
OBAMA’S VOTING RECORD
1/06/05: Obama voted for Bush’s Ohio electors. Roll Call 1
1/26/05: Obama voted to confirm Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State.
Roll call 2
2/01/05: Obama was part of a unanimous consent agreement not to
filibuster the nomination of lawless torturer Alberto Gonzales as chief
law enforcement officer of the United States (U.S. Attorney General). No
roll call is available to view but the unanimous consent is noted in
Thomas.loc.gov
2/10/05: Obama voted for an act known as The Class Action Extreme
UnFairness Act of 2005 (S 5) that makes it much more difficult, if not
impossible, for victims to seek and obtain damages in class action suits
filed against wrongdoers who have harmed multiple victims. Roll call 9
2/15/05: Obama voted to confirm Michael Chertoff, a proponent of
water-board torture, an individual connected to the financing of 9/11
and the man behind the round-up of thousands of people of Middle-Eastern
descent following 9/11. By confirming him, Obama, in effect, endorsed
terrorist attacks on America, water-board torture and racism. One
consequence of Obama’s’ vote to confirm Chertoff was the Katrina
disaster. Roll call 10. (In May, 2005, Obama voted to give Chertoff the
authority to waive all laws with no judicial review and no relief. See
below.)
4/21/05: Obama voted to make John “Death Squad” Negroponte the National
Intelligence Director. In Central America, John Negroponte was connected
to death squads that murdered nuns and children in sizable quantities.
He is suspected of instigating death squads while in Iraq, resulting in
the current insurgency. Instead of calling for Negroponte’s prosecution,
Obama rewarded him by making him National Intelligence Director. On
4/17/05, the California Democratic Party unanimously passed a resolution
discussing the death squads and calling on Senators to reject the
nomination of John Negroponte. Roll call 107
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Cynthia McKinney Press Conference on why she’s running as Green
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McKinney & Clemente: Black, Brown, Green and True
July 19, 2008Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
"The overarching necessity for Black America - and therefore, for the entire nation - is the rebirth of a Black-led mass movement for peace and fundamental social change."
"The Green Party was against the war when it started, is against the war now, and is against any military action against Iran that might take place tomorrow," declared former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, accepting the Green Party's presidential nomination, in Chicago, this weekend. "The Green Party is a peace party. A Green vote is a peace vote."
McKinney's statement is unequivocally true, a verity beyond question, as is her own deep commitment to social justice, tested and manifested during her 12-year sojourn in Congress. The 53-year-old activist and educator, whose last act as a U.S. Representative was to submit Articles of Impeachment against George Bush, not only speaks "truth to power" (or, as she puts it, "truth to empower), but demands that truth be the essential element of all American political discourse.
There is nothing quaint or convenient about The Truth. In a nation ruled by the raw power of money, the Lords of Capital market their own versions of truth designed to make wrongs seem right, and criminality appear normal. The corporate casting couch supplies political actors to mouth attractive untruths as required by the imperatives of Capital. Some of these actors are extremely talented, compounding the dangers they present to society. At every opportunity, they stomp on truth as if it were vermin - and for each vanquished truth they are paid a bounty in parceled power and prestige. U.S. presidents are manufactured in this way.
"The corporate casting couch supplies political actors to mouth attractive untruths as required by the imperatives of Capital."
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July 17, 2008
Clone politics or Cynthia McKinney?
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