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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the situation in Honduras.

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Supreme Court Rules Against Segregated Buses

Back in the day on November 13th, 1956, the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregated seating on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Affirming a federal court ruling on Browder v. Gayle, the decision was a victory for the longstanding Montgomery Bus Boycott that had begun the year before. Organizers had been …

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After months of meetings, President Barack Obama is expected to announce a decision to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan. There is some speculation as to how many troops he will add, but according to a senior military official quoted by the Wall Street Journal, a likely number is 30,000-35,000 extra US troops. Ten thousand of those troops could be …

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Following up from our coverage earlier this week of violence against women globally, with Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini, we focus today and tomorrow on violence against American women through the case of one victim of domestic violence: Debbie Peagler. In 1982, a man by the name of Oliver Wilson was found dead. …

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Coal Country, a documentary by Phylis Geller and Mari-Lynn Evans explores the economic and environmental devastation of extracting coal through mountain top removal (MTR) in the Coal River Mountain region of West Virginia. Also known as strip-mining, mountain top removal is the process of clear-cutting forest from mountains, blasting away the unwanted rock, extracting the coal, and …

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The Durand Line Agreement

Back in the day on November 12th, 1893, the Durand Line Agreement was signed between Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman and British colonial officer Henry Mortimer Durand. The seven articles of the agreement were signed in Kabul and set a 1,519 mile line of demarcation between Afghanistan and British colonial India. The Durand Line was …

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“We’ve poured our poisons into the world as through it were a bottomless pit… and we go on gobbling them up. It’s hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse.” — Daniel Quinn …

We’ll speak with a man once known as the most dangerous man in America – Daniel Ellsberg, on his views on the Afghanistan war. And, we’ll hear from Deborah Peagler, a victim of domestic violence who was just freed from after than 27 years in prison for her involvement in the murder of her abuser. Plus, Coal Country, a new documentary about coal mining and mountaintop removal. …

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As President Obama mulls over his Afghanistan war strategy, most likely adding 10,000 to 40,000 troops, it is fitting on Veterans Day to examine the state of US troops. Last week’s tragic shooting at Fort Hood, Texas by an Army psychiatrist that left thirteen people dead underscores the dire mental state of American soldiers. A study by the RAND …

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