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The TerrordomeThe Terrordome is Minister Faust´s weekly news programme delivering news and analysis on Afrikans, their communities, histories, politics and cultures from around the world, and regularly features writers, activists and academics. CJSR has been broadcasting The Terrordome since the fall of 1991. The show also features guests from and analyses of assaults on domestic and international peace, and the pro-democracy movement which is growing daily. You can hear The Terrordome Wednesday at 6pm. Show CreditsShow time: Wednesday 6pm Producer: Minister Faust Host: Minister Faust Email: ministerfaust [at] cjsr [dot] com Contributors: Guests have included: Karl Evanzz, George Elliot Clarke, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Vandana Shiva, Tom Fontana, Martin Bernal Website: http://ministerfaust.blogspot.com/ RSS feed: http://ministerfaust.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss On-air Debut: 1991 NEW: Subscribe to the podcast for this show:
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The Five Percenters of the Nation of Gods and Earth, Part 3 - Ep 1919
Aside from the declaration that "the Blackman is God," no Five Percenter belief stirs outsider interest and anger as much as the use of the word “Devil,” ... 
> Jun 24, 2009
The Five Percenters of the Nation of Gods and Earth, Part 2 - Ep 1918
Like all religions, cultures and philosophies, the Nation of Gods and Earths draws upon a broad range of predecessors. Just as Judaism, Christianity and Islam evolved ... > Jun 10, 2009
The Five Percenters of the Nation of Gods and Earth, Part 1 - Ep 1917
Hip hop as we know it would not exist without the Five Percenters. That´s because beginning in the mid-1960s of New York City, the Five Percenter youth began ... > Jun 03, 2009
Carol Off on Blood Chocolate - Ep 1916
Carol Off, host of CBC’s As It Happens, is author of the stunning exposé on the human rights abuses of international Big Chocolate called Bitter Chocolate.
Tonight ... > Apr 29, 2009
The Economic Meltdown and Lies about Somali "Pirates" - Ep 1915
Tonight we’ll hear my conversation with Jim Stanford, who’ll be speaking in Edmonton this Thursday night. Stanford has just authored the book Economics ... > Apr 22, 2009
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Glen Ford on Barack Obama - Ep 1817
The candidacy of Barack Obama for the presidential nomination of the US Democratic Party has created a level of interest not seen in the US since, perhaps, that of Robert Kennedy.
Obama is intelligent, handsome, tall, occasionally eloquent, and at the centre of a super-powerful myth-making machine which has cast him as a saviour, a new breed of politician and a new species of post-racial humanity. For some, the image of Obama says, “The future is finally here!” And for others, the image of Obama says, “The past is finally over.”
But the future is not here, and the past is never really past. And through tonight’s guest, we’ll find out just how true that is. Glen Ford is a journalist and editor, a co-founder of the online magazine The Black Commentator, and a founding editor of the online magazine The Black Agenda Report.
His career in news and broadcasting started early. Ford was only 11 years old when started reading newswire copy on air in Columbus, Georgia, and by 1970, was working as a broadcaster at a radio station owned by James Brown. He later created Black World Report, a syndicated half-hour weekly news magazine, and in 1974 worked for the 88-station Mutual Black Network for which he was the Capitol Hill, State Department and White House correspondent.
In 1977, he co-created, produced and hosted America’s Black Forum, commercial televisions’ first nationally syndicated African-American news interview program, generating international headlines and commanding the attention of White news services such as AP, UPI, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Tass. His many successes include the cultural broadcasting of his Black Agenda Reports, Rap It Up, the hip hop show he founded in 1987 which was the first nationally-syndicated show of its kind in the US, and three national hip hop conventions.
He’s been an editor and report for three newspapers, the author of the book The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion, and a national political columnist. In 2006, Ford and his writing team left Black Commentator.com to found BlackAgendaReport.com, an influential online political analysis magazine.
Glen Ford and Black Agenda Report have been at the forefront of analysing what Ford calls Obama-mania. Recognising the historical significance of the Obama candidacy, Ford has refused to be blinded by image and instead to engage substance. For his rigor, Obama’s boosters have vilified him.
Glen Ford spoke with me via telephone from his office in New Jersey on Friday, May 09. I began by asking him to discuss who Barack Obama was before he was elected to the Illinois legislature as a state senator.
