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Treble Army - Serve The People
16 Jun 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Has the Power
20 Jun 2012
by editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When President Obama doesn’t want to do something, he pleads the limits of presidential power or resistance from Republicans. But, when a novel move is to his political benefit, the world is his oyster. So far, gays and Latinos have benefited…
Antoine Roger Lokongo
Rwanda, Uganda and the Congo Genocide
19 Jun 2012
by Antoine Roger Lokongo Six million Congolese have died since 1996 so that western corporations could retain unfettered access to the region’s mineral wealth. Rwanda and Uganda turned the eastern Congo into a cauldron of death – with impunity, protected by their patrons, the U.S. and…
Dan Glazebrook
AFRICOM’s Imperial Agenda Marches On
19 Jun 2012
by Dan Glazebrook U.S. neo-colonialism is, in many respects, not that different from the old European colonialism. The goal of American policy in Africa is to turn African states into black Gunga-Dins, “fighting and dying for western interests in the coming colonial wars against Africa…
Solomon Comissiong
Obama-Aid: Psychologically Bad for Black Folks
19 Jun 2012
by Solomon Comissiong Obama-Aid ought to be tasting stale and nasty after three-plus years, but Black folks are still swilling it. “His supporters did not give a damn that he backed FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) or even that he justified the amoral verdict that acquitted…
Dr. Peter J. Hudson
Citigroup’s Role in the Rape of Haiti
19 Jun 2012
by Peter James Hudson Citibank’s role in the U.S. subjugation of Haiti in the first quarter of the 20th century sounds quite familiar, a century later. The bank demanded that Washington send troops to “stabilize” the country, fantasizing that the Haitians would welcome the Marines. “…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Top Ten Things That Have and Have Have Not Changed In the Era of Obama
20 Jun 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In the spirit of Bill Clinton's 1992 “the Man From Hope” slogan, Barack Obama in 2008 declared himself the candidate of Hope and Change. So what about it? Are the real changes, if we can find them, at all what Obama voters hoped for?
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
White House Strategy for Africa Revealed: Intensified Militarization and War on Terror
20 Jun 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The White House has put in writing its policies for sub-Saharan Africa. The problem is, there’s hardly a word of truth in the document, and not a single mention of AFRICOM, the U.S. military command on the continent. The presidential paper repeats…
Bill Quigley
The story of Kamau Marcharia (a.k.a. Robert John Lewis)
27 May 2010
by Kevin Alexander Gray Over decades of fighting to empower Blacks in South Carolina, Kamau Marcharia has made lots of enemies. Marcharia is running for a seat in the state legislature, but his foes are mounting a campaign against a fellow named Robert John Lewis – the guy he used to…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Arrested Georgia Correctional Officer Oversaw Vicious Beating of Prisoner “in His Capacity” As Supervisor
16 Mar 2011
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In this, the first of several reports on the aftermath of the courageous protest of Georgia prisoners last December, we update the case of Terrance Dean, brutally beaten by prison guards at Macon State Prison on December 16, 2009, and the role played by TOPS…