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Don Fitz
Med School Classes Cancelled in Havana
14 Feb 2012
by Don Fitz Fidel Castro long ago vowed to make Cuba a “medical superpower.” The country’s healthcare system emphasizes preventive medicine and mobilization of the entire population against threats to health and safety. Medicine is more than a career. Imagine that, at the height of the Katrina…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Greece: Your Money or Your Life
15 Feb 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Greece’s plight proves the Lords of Capital have no more use for democratic facades. The Greeks will be forced to surrender to “the free movement of capital” and take no actions that would “influence the management or control of companies…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Human Rights” Warriors for Empire
16 Feb 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have chosen sides in the Washington-backed belligerency – the side of Empire.” Syria has no choice but to secure every square foot of its territory. “Faced with the certainty of superpower-backed attack…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Giving Away the Store: The Black Political Class as Bystanders and Looters
16 Feb 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Dr. King once expressed the belief that we might be “integrating into a burning house.” Even that might not be so bad, one supposes, if we were actually fighting the fire. But is America's black political class even committed to fighting the fire at all, to…
Sikivu Hutchinson
God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Foundation Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino “Genocide”
14 Feb 2012
by Sikivu Hutchinson Money and religion make strange bedfellows. The most right-wing forces in U.S. politics have cultivated Black and Latino allies to label abortion rights advocates as nothing less than enemies of God. Yet, “It is precisely because of right wing opposition to…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Part One: No FEAR: A Whistleblower’s Triumph
08 Feb 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo has permitted us to serialize excerpts of her new book, No FEAR: A Whistleblower’s Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. Dr. Coleman-Adebayo incurred the wrath of EPA when she protested the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman Tests?
07 Feb 2012
by Raymond Nat Turner The poet is talking about those who peddle “pork barrel pedagogy…selling blankets bearing smallpox— blankets smothering spirits and crushing minds of black and brown babies, like cigarette butts.”
Bill Quigley
Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power
07 Feb 2012
by Bill Quigley Bringing corporations down to controllable size is a gargantuan task, but an absolute necessity if there is to be any hope for democracy. “Corporations have worked the courts mercilessly since 1819 to take a wide variety of constitutional rights that were designed to…
Abdi Dirshe
The London Conference on Somalia: An Act of False Generosity?
07 Feb 2012
by Abdi Dirshe The British government has taken it upon itself to organize a conference on Somalia, which raises a fundamental question: “Can the London Conference be in solidarity with the Somali people who are yearning to address their political, social and economic problems and at the same…
Jemima Pierre
No, Drones are Never OK!
08 Feb 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre If any American group should be appalled at U.S. drone policy, it is Blacks, who “have seen the unspeakable become acceptable. We should know better.” Those who send the drones deny the fundamental humanity of their targets. “There is something…