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Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
If There's A Hell Below, That's Where He'll Go: The BAR Obituary on George H.W. Bush
07 Dec 2018
George Herbert Walker Bush was born in 1924, the son of Prescott Sheldon Bush, a banker and politician, senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963.
Noura Erakat
Marc Lamont Hill and the Legacy of Punishing Black Internationalists
07 Dec 2018
Hill’s bold statement to the UN is part of the internationalist Black radical tradition, exemplified by Paul Robeson, the Black Panther Party, and today’s Black Lives Matter movement.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
All US Presidents, Living and Dead, are War Criminals
06 Dec 2018
Especially at state funerals, media and politicians pretend that US presidents are honorable men, instead of the mass murderers that all of them become in office.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!
05 Dec 2018
The post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , #LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Session
#LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Sessions
05 Dec 2018
A dynamic new community project has been launched to halt the push-out of Black and brown people from Oakland by taking land and housing out of the speculative market.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Mueller, Manafort and Assange
05 Dec 2018
The Mueller investigation much more resembles a propaganda campaign whose goal is neither truth nor justice, but vilification of Russia in the pursuit of endless war.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Pierre Omidyar: A Dangerous Billionaire-Backer of the “Resistance”
05 Dec 2018
The eBay billionaire’s project is to stabilize an imperial system in crisis by luring “progressives” into corporate dominated “Big Tent” against Trump.
Glenn Greenwald
CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill, Submits to Right-Wing Mob
05 Dec 2018
Our discourse is now drowning under demands that speech be banned if powerful constituencies think it “hurtful” -- especially the Israel lobby.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Dec 2018
Readers engaged and challenged ideas about Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders this week. In particular the question of Bernie Sanders’ impact on the two party system provoked a lot of thought.
Mychal Denzel Smith
The Gatekeepers: The Burden of the Black Public Intellectual
05 Dec 2018
Black intellectuals wind up offering mainly white audiences a “foreign experience” to savor from a comfortable distance.