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Azad Essa
In Search of an African Revolution
02 Mar 2011
by Azad Essa Where is the line that excises the lands from Morocco to Egypt from the rest of the African continent? “We should not fool about with the attempts of the North to segregate the countries of North Africa from the rest of the continent.” Yet, the artificial division is…
Gregory Elich
Challenging Western Distortions about Zimbabwe's Land Reform
02 Mar 2011
by Gregory Elich Britain and the U.S. have railed for years that Zimbabwe’s land reform was a “disaster” that distributed farmland to political cronies and wrecked the economy. But two studies by prestigious western institutions show that “the claim that the land reform was dominated…
Malik Russell
White Sports Writers: Raising the Volume on Unforgivable Blackness Then and Now
02 Mar 2011
by Malik Russell In many popular U.S. sports, Blacks make the game but whites tell the story. Sportswriting remains rooted in the racial past. “There might not be a less diversified group of paunchy, balding, middle-aged white guys anywhere in America.” Not so long ago, whites were so…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama and the Nadir of Black America
07 Jul 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley For Black America, it is the worst of times, but a kind of collective insanity leads African Americans to believe they live in the best of times. A Pew Research Center study shows Blacks are the most upbeat on the economy of any major group…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Shirley Sherrod’s Righteous Anger
28 Jul 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Like ACORN, Sherrod was victimized by a Democratic administration which revels in its willingness to assist the right in throwing its own people under the proverbial bus.” Yet, even when the media narrative shifts to sympathy for Sherrod,…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White Citizenship
04 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley After all is said and done, what much of the so-called Tea Party wants is a return to America as a White Man’s Country. There are a few obstacles in their way, including the U.S. Constitution, but that’s not insurmountable. “On a daily basis…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Public Theft and the End of Empire
12 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If it feels like this economic roller coaster ride is stuck on down, you’re right. At the same historical moment that the public sector is put on a starvation diet, the demands of the military reach record levels. “The height of brute force…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Israel, Big Money and Obama
19 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Wealthy Americans whose paramount issue is unlimited support for Israel create huge distortions in U.S. politics, bending presidents to their will. Barack Obama’s career has long been nurtured by one such billionaire hyper-Zionist, who hopes to…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: “Sacred” Ground Zero
25 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If American whites practiced what many of them preach to Muslims, they would ban themselves from building cultural institutions of any kind in much of the United States, since so many places are sites of depraved atrocities and mass killings…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Show Me Your Papers, New York!
08 Sep 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States has become an awful caricature of 1940s Hollywood movies on fascism, where “the usual suspects” are made to show their “papers.” Not just along the southern border, but also within 100 miles of the Canadian Great White North,…