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  • The Real News Network
    Will Lead Pipe Crisis Be The Excuse For More Water Privatizations?
    13 Apr 2016
  • Farooque Chowdhury
    Panama Papers: Denials Expose More Than the Original Exposé
    13 Apr 2016
    by Farooque Chowdhury The leak once again reveals how states collude with private interests to protect the criminality of the powerful. How could journalists uncover the Panama Papers while states…
  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 11, 2016
    12 Apr 2016
    Mississippi Schemes to Dismember Tax Base of Black Capital City The Republican-run State of Mississippi has moved to seize the City of Jackson’s two airports and a medical services corridor, and is…
  • Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Sports Bar Politics and Corporate Duopolies
    07 Apr 2016
    by BAR executive editor Glen Ford You don’t have to feel “The Bern” to root for Sanders in the primaries, nor must you be a white supremacist to hope that Trump wins the GOP contest. Both campaigns…
  • Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: The Panama Papers Problem
    06 Apr 2016
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Panama tax haven leaks reveal a lot about the lawlessness of the rich, as well as the ideological bias of the western press. “Vladimir Putin’…
  • Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    The 2016 Elections Reflect General Crisis of Imperialism
    06 Apr 2016
    by Danny Haiphong Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders represent no danger to U.S. imperialism, but “the two-party establishment has not been kind to the Trump and Sanders…
  • Peter James Hudson
    The Racist Dawn of Capitalism: Unearthing the Economy of Bondage
    30 Mar 2016
    by Peter James Hudson  Capitalist historians and other political actors attempt to treat chattel slavery as a “pre-capitalist” system that was extirpated in the Americas by its supposed nemesis…
  • Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Democrats and the SCOTUS Scam
    23 Mar 2016
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Obama “legacy” will likely include the appointment of a U.S. Supreme Court justice that Republicans would welcome – if only Obama hadn’t been…
  • David Bacon
    Lead in Flint Water, Mold in Detroit Schools: An Anatomy of a Free Market Disaster

    09 Mar 2016
    by David Bacon Detroit’s schools have been laid waste, and democracy in every majority Black city has been destroyed, as have the brain cells of children in Flint. “Michigan cities have been used as…
  • Caleb Maupin
    Oil Price Manipulation and the Global Capitalist Crisis
    09 Mar 2016
    by Caleb Maupin The truly rich people – the ones who really run the capitalist world – are not the household names, or “the Illuminati, the Freemasons, or some secret society.” The bankers and big…
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