Black Agenda Radio, Week of September 10, 2018

The appearance of the “Anonymous” article in the New York Times is more evidence of “a real split in the upper levels of the US ruling elite,” said Dr Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston. “I can’t say that I’m that upset that they’re squabbling,” said Horne. “Maybe, if they’re fighting each other, they’ll have less time and energy to fight us.”

“Anonymous” Shows Split in Ruling Class

Facebook has still not given any coherent explanation for briefly removing the page of Venezuelanalysis.com, the daily English-language political analysis publication, said reporter Jeanette Charles. The shutdown followed a Venezuelanalysis critique of the corporate media’s coverage of an assassination attempt against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro..
“We know that they corporate media lies, distorts, serves larger political purposes and is not about democratic information dissemination,” said Charles.

U.S. Corporate Media Lies for a Living

“The one truth” in former cop Jason Van Dyke’s not guilty plea in the 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald “is when he says, ‘I was doing as I was trained by the Chicago Police Department,” said author and political analyst Paul Street, a Chicago native. Jury selection began last week in Van Dyke’s first degree murder trail, four years after Van Dyke pumped 16 bullets into 17-year old McDonald.

Chicago Cop Murder Trial Begins

Longtime MOVE Family spokesperson Ramona Africa’s health took a turn for the worse, necessitating an emergency appeal for assistance. Ramona Africa exemplifies the ethos of “the long distance revolutionary,” said human rights activist Ralph Poynter, husband of the late people’s lawyer and political prisoner Lynne Stewart. “All of the Africas” -- the name all MOVE members adopt -- “have proven to be prophetic” in their reverence for all forms of life, said Poynter.

Ramona Africa Needs Your Help

Paul Street on the latest trial of murderous Chicago cops, Ralph Pointer says Ramona Africa's health is failing, Facebook deletes Venezuelanalysis, and Dr. Gerald Horne on the split inside the US ruling class, all this week on Black Agenda Radio