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Paul Street
Populism and the Two Bubbles That Went Pop – the Banks’ and Obama’s
28 Feb 2012
by Paul Street Occupy Wall Street has “performed the remarkable service of calling out the name and address of the nation’s true unelected masters: corporate-financial capital and Wall Street.” It was a truth whose mass acceptance was made possible, first by the meltdown of the banks…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
If ACE Was The Place
28 Feb 2012
by Raymond Nat Turner If those who rule really wanted kids to be Aces in life, they wouldn't rig the decks.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Like Bill Clinton, Obama Drives Crazy Republicans Even Crazier
02 Mar 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When a right wing Democrat occupies the White House it does stranger things to Republicans than the full moon does to werewolves. If history is any guide, it doesn't do much positive for the rest of us either....
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Liberal Whores
07 Mar 2012
by BAR editor and senior consultant Margaret Kimberley Call a Georgetown law student a slut, and the liberal universe goes into supernova. Destroy Somalia and Libya, or obliterate due process of law, and the same people just yawn. Attorney General Eric Holder “asserts that the…
Tamara K. Nopper
The “Be the Help” Campaign and Black Disappearance among the Multiracial Left
07 Mar 2012
by Tamara K. Nopper An alliance of convenience was struck between the makers of The Help, the film about African American domestic workers in the civil rights era, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, comprised mainly of immigrants. What has “disappeared” is the Black American…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
No FEAR: A Whistleblower’s Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA - Chapter 1
07 Mar 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Dr. Coleman Adebayo’s tells her own story as a whistleblower in the Environmental Protection Agency, and the growth and triumph of a movement to protect all the truth-tellers in the federal civil service and beyond. She has graciously…
The Editors
US and NATO-supported Libyan "Rebels" Continue Persecution of Blacks in Libya
07 Mar 2012
Video By RT These are the so-called rebels and freedom fighters in Libya backed by the Obama administration and its secretary of state Hillary Clinton. March 03, 2012 "RT" -- A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: “Republicans” and why politics is still just show business for ugly people
07 Mar 2012
by Michael Hureaux Perez Civilized people worry about the Republicans’ antics this election season. “Why this parading of the cracker factory in full daylight and without their sheets and hoods?” Could it be that the Nixon’s old Southern Strategy has finally gone berserk? The author’s…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
New Data Show Black Students Have Been New Jim Crowed
07 Mar 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford New data indicate that Black stigmatization as criminals pervades the nation’s public schools, just as it saturates the larger society. “For teachers and school disciplinarians, just as with street cops and prosecutors, race is the most important…
Paul Street
Is Barack Obama a Fit Role Model for Black Youth?
14 Mar 2012
by Paul Street The last refuge of the Obama apologist is to hold up the president and his family as role models for Black America, especially Black youth. The reality is that Obama has “put a technically black presidential face on each of what the democratic socialist King called ‘the…