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Bill Quigley
Wave of Illegal, Senseless and Violent Evictions Swells in Port au Prince
14 Sep 2011
by Bill Quigley A year and a half after the earthquake, Haiti’s homeless legions are driven from place to place like vermin. “The administration of President Michel Martelly has apparently given a green light to widespread violent demolition of camps without any legal process.” Billions in…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Bad “Bitches,” True Women
20 Jul 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Casey Anthony trial caused such consternation in white America because it “underscores how deeply the ideal of white womanhood is steeped in reverence for white motherhood” – as opposed to “the dark uncivilized Other of Africa, Asia and Latin America.” Yet the “violent…
Gerald A. Perreira
A Defining Moment for Africa: North Atlantic Terrorists Will Be Defeated in Libya
20 Jul 2011
The Euro-Americans of NATO don’t seem so confident, anymore, about driving Moammar Gaddafi’s government into oblivion. “One thing is clear, if Qaddafi did not have mass support he could not be resisting this barbaric onslaught so effectively.” The U.S., France and others have begun talks with…
Li Onesto
The Humanity and Courage of the Prisoners at Pelican Bay and the Moral Responsibility to Support Their Demands
20 Dec 2010
by Li Onesto No moral human being can defend the U.S. prison system, a gulag of torture and debasement designed primarily for the mass incarceration of Blacks and browns. “Nobody—no matter what they have done—deserves to be tortured. Nobody deserves to be put in such extreme conditions of…
Alan Gilbert
Bigger and More Dangerous Than the New Jim Crow: Part Two
20 Sep 2011
by Alan Gilbert Michelle Alexander’s formulation of the “New Jim Crow” that is reproducing past systemic subordination of African Americans as a caste, is shaking up the U.S. political science establishment. “What Alexander describes is a genocidal system,” says the author. He reasons…
David DeGraw
Undercount: How Census Bureau Propaganda Ignores the Suffering of 10 Million Impoverished Americans
20 Sep 2011
by David DeGraw Americans were shocked to learn that U.S. Census Bureau figures showed 46 million people in poverty – the most ever. But a better count would have registered and additional ten million poor persons in the U.S. – 56 million. “The Census measures poverty based on costs of…
Dady Chery
The Truth About Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic: An Interview with Dr. Renaud Piarroux
20 Sep 2011
by Dady Chery The United Nations occupation force in Haiti, MINUSTAH, still denies responsibility for the outbreak of cholera nearly a year ago, despite overlapping studies that “demonstrate without any doubt that cholera was brought to Haiti by infected Nepalese soldiers.” Thousands…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?
21 Sep 2011
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The last refuge of Obamaphiles is that no matter how many times the First Black President double-crosses us by cutting Medicare and Medicaid, no matter how completely be betrays his voters us by ignoring black unemployment, by deporting one million Latinos…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Hosts International Debut for Libya’s Racist and Thoroughly Non-Revolutionary Regime
21 Sep 2011
The United States and the corporate media would have you believe that President Obama and the U.S. corporate media are celebrating the triumph of a “revolution” in Libya. But there was no revolution. “’Revolutionaries’ – African revolutionaries – do not name their fighting units ‘the Brigade for…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: MLK and Jackie Kennedy
21 Sep 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Forty years ago, countless Black living rooms featured wall paintings with Dr. Martin Luther King sandwiched between the two slain Kennedy brothers – as if the trio were martyrs of the same struggle. One wonders if the picture would…