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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s Depraved Indifference
20 Apr 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama seems positively eager to dismantle the safety nets put in place in the Thirties and strengthened by a Black-led movement in the Sixties. He calls it “Winning the Future” – a future that “holds nothing but further pain and decline for Black…
Jemima Pierre
Of Fools and Sycophants: Haiti’s Presidential Selection
20 Apr 2011
by Jemima Pierre The U.S. corporate media, echoing President Obama, would have us believe that Washington has brought “democracy” to Haiti – when, in fact, the U.S. stole democracy from that country through coup and invasion, in 2004. The fundamental question: “How can a non-sovereign country,…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Black Wall Around Barack Obama: Who Does It Protect Him Against?
06 Apr 2011
The presumption that Barack Obama, no matter what he does or doesn't do, enjoys nearly unanimous black support is a veritable wall around the president. But who does it protect him against? Republicans? Banksters? Tea partyers, warmongers, torturers? Or does it protect him against black people and…
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Support OUR Troops
12 Nov 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Guantanamo Files
27 Apr 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama has turned out to be George W. Bush’s imperial twin, largely identical on “war on terror” policies – as the recently release Wikileaks files on Guantanamo attest. Both presidents rate as hypocrites and liars. “The Obama…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Dragging Malcolm X to Obamaland
27 Apr 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Manning Marable’s rendition of Malcolm X’s life should be read very carefully, so as not to confuse Malcolm’s evolving worldview with the late Columbia University professor’s left-reformist politics. “Marable tries to convince us that Malcolm must have…
Jemima Pierre
Brazil’s Haitian Training Ground
04 May 2011
by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre When there’s a need to gain national prestige, curry favor with imperial power, or seize the opportunity to train your soldiers to occupy other people’s countries, why not try Haiti. To prove it can play with the big imperial boys, the United States and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Killing Spree
05 May 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Obama is certainly living the thug life, an international gangster without parallel. What is to lesser humans a planet is, to Obama, a spherical theater of war, a free-fire zone. With two more notches in his gun, the First Black President is…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Killing Gaddafi's Grandbabies
05 May 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When the U.S. and Europeans needed a way to get on the “right” side of the Arab Awakening – and thereby crush it – they chose to re-demonize Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi as the evil from which the Euro-Americans would rescue North Africa. “Gaddafi…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment
16 Nov 2011
by editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Obama is once again out-Bushing Bush on the war-worshipping front. With the president’s blessing, NCAA basketball games will now take place on the decks of warships – the Carrier Classic. There is a message in this muscular madness: “…