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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Some of Dr. King's People Never Did Get There
04 Apr 2007
insert it here Some of Dr. King’s People Never Did Get There by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford “The crisis of mass incarceration and no employment has shattered every institutional connection with which the old order might communicate with the younger base among the masses in…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Unraveling of Another U.S. Race War: Iraq, Four Years Later
21 Mar 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford Despite poll numbers that show more Americans want out of Iraq, peace activists should not expect a sea change in basic public perceptions of the U.S. "role" in the world. The debacle in Iraq can only be understood through the logic of (white) American…
Bill Quigley
Feed The People, Not SUVs
11 Apr 2007
by Fidel Castro The obviously not-dead Cuban leader stands against conversion of food-land to fuel-land, which would initiate a global regime that "spells nothing other than the internationalization of genocide." With billions of people in need of nutrition, how can the world even…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Iran and Beyond: Total War is Still on the Horizon
11 Jul 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford An invasion of Iran is imminent, because that is the only solution the Bush gang and the corporate mafia it serves can conjure to rally the American people behind their quest for global dominance. The Democratic Party is one with the Republicans in…
Bill Quigley
Obama Insults Half a Race
18 Jun 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Black man who wants to be president spends Father's Day at church in loud and general denunciation of Black males. For added insult, he describes them as "boys." Barack Obama's primary audience isn't the conservative Black Pentecostal congregation, but "…
Bill Quigley
Black TV in Brazil
27 Feb 2007
Brazil is home to more people of African descent than anyplace outside the Motherland. Shawn Linsday recounts the success of Brazil's first black TV show, only a couple of years ago.
Bill Quigley
BAR Morning Shot September 3, 2010
03 Sep 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Mass Incarceration is Now a Political Issue
10 Oct 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Some of white America's political elite are finally ready to speak openly of the failed and malevolent policies of Black mass incarceration. That's good news. But who speaks for the young, the black and the poor…
Bill Quigley
Haiti’s Christmas in Hell
02 Jan 2008
by John Maxwell
John Maxwell
Digging Down Jamaica
24 Jan 2007
by John Maxwell Jamaica may one day face the same fate as tiny Nauru, sinking into the sea after its minerals have been ruthlessly extracted by multinational corporations. Already, once verdant Jamaica confronts silting rivers, poisoned water supplies, pollution-induced illness, and the…