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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Despots of the West
08 Feb 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley White privilege appears to extend to whole nations. A harsh, but more equal standard would dictate: “If it can be said that Muammar Gaddafi deserved to be butchered like an animal, then the leaders of G-8 and G-20 and G whatever should also…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Politics Atrophies Under Obama
08 Feb 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Traditional Black progressive and movement politics has been replaced by fear and sycophantism, as Blacks once again circle the wagons around Obama and contort the events of the last three years to justify their unrequited loyalty to the Banker’s…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Haiti, Katrina, and Why I Won't Give To Haiti Through the Red Cross
20 Jan 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon At Katrina, the Red Cross used funds generously donated by millions of Americans to disperse tens of thousands of black New Orleans residents to the four corners of the continental US, knowing it was very unlkely they would ever be allowed to return. If…
by BAR editor Nellie Hester Bailey
Occupy Harlem Sets Record Straight on Apollo Theater Protest
25 Jan 2012
by Nellie Hester Bailey Pro-Obama media claimed that last week’s highly successful protest in Harlem was a “white” affair, that “Blacks are incapable of critical thinking and analysis regarding Obama’s presidency,” says one of the organizers. The demonstration outside the Apollo Theater “was called…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
State of Obama: Immunity for Wall Street
25 Jan 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama hoped to announce a monetary “settlement” of massive banker criminality in housing foreclosures that would grant banks immunity from prosecution.” But he was thwarted by a small group of state attorneys general that wanted real…
Linn Washington
'People Power' Pries Abu-Jamal from Punitive Administrative Custody
01 Feb 2012
by Linn Washington Jr. 30 years after his conviction on charges of killing a policeman – Mumia Abu-Jamal last week entered the general prison population. Abu-Jamal’s release from isolation in Administrative Custody followed a worldwide mobilization of his supporters, who charge that “…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Aboriginal Righteous Anger
01 Feb 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Australia’s aboriginals – her original people – were nearly wiped out by the invading British, starting in 1788. “Their lands were stolen, they were killed by new diseases, and even their children were taken from them as late as the 20th…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Usurps the GOP
29 Feb 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If the Republicans have been sounding particularly insane, this year, it’s because Barack Obama has staked out so much traditional Republican political territory, they have been forced into Loony Land. The GOP presidential…
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Infiltration to Disrupt, Divide and Mis-Direct are Widespread in Occupy - PART I
28 Feb 2012
by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers It has become clear that political and police infiltration is having an effect on the Occupy movement, say two key activists. Whether the infiltration comes from police, civilian agents of the police, or from the Democratic Party, “it takes the…
Bill Quigley
Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement and Occupy 4 Prisoners
28 Feb 2012
by Bill Quigley The United States is the world leader in both mass incarceration and the systematic isolation of prisoners. President Obama has earned his own grotesque superlative, having “prosecuted more whistleblowers for espionage than all other presidents combined.” In the case of Bradley…