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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
What If BP Were A Human Being?
05 May 2010
What if BP, the principal corporate entity responsible for the monstrous oil well rupture a mile beneath Gulf of Mexico were a human being, a flesh and blood person instead of a faceless transnational corporation? It's a fair and simple question, and the answers tell us a lot more about the world…
Seth Sandronsky
Race-Making Nation
09 Feb 2011
A book review by Seth Sandronsky A review of How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon, by David Roediger (Verso, hardcover, 2008). The author lays out the historical roots of modern American white supremacy, in which “lawmakers foment race-…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ronald Reagan’s Demons
09 Feb 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The myth of Ronald Reagan's vast popularity during his actual terms as president is now all but written in stone, largely thanks to a lying corporate media. Barack Obama is a disciple, embracing Reagan's doctrines of domestic…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Time For A Political Response to the Crisis of Mass Incarceration: Join the Campaign To End Mass Incarceration
01 Feb 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Because the U.S., with 4.5 % of the world's population, has 25% of the planet's prisoners. We are the world's first prison state. Because African Americans, who are one eighth the nation's population, are almost half it's 2.3…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Arab Nationalist Reawakening in Egypt and Beyond
02 Feb 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Americans have for so long pretended that Arab nationalism is dead, their corporate media fail to recognize an Arab nationalist rebellion when it breaks out in front of their noses. Arab nationalism is more dangerous than Islamist politics to U.S.…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Chamber of Commerce Obamanomics
09 Feb 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two years in office, Obama clearly has nothing to offer the Democratic Party “base,” but arrives at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce bearing impressive gifts. “The president’s groveling performance at the Chamber shows him, once again, to be a…
The Editors
The Ronald Reagan We Recall, And Not So Fondly
09 Feb 2011
Truth is always a healthy antidote to lies. The mountain of fake history being spun around the life and career of Ronald Reagan is certainly too vast to move with a single article or book in this small space. So we offer a more realistic recollection of the Gipper, in cartoon form,…
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
My Return to Haiti
09 Feb 2011
by Jean-Bertrand Aristide Ever since being driven into exile by the United States in 2004, the democratically elected former president of Haiti has sought to return to his devastated country, now occupied and dominated by foreigners. “An exogenous plan of reconstruction - one that is…
Bill Quigley
Bush Ducks Geneva Criminal Torture Charges
09 Feb 2011
by Bill Quigley There was never a chance that Barack Obama would not work to ensure impunity for the war criminals of the previous administration – no doubt because he planned to employ much the same barbaric practices. But international human rights activists are still seeking…
The Real News Network
Black Americans Still Face Higher Unemployment, Incarceration Rates, and Lower Wages in the Age of Obama
09 Feb 2011