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Sukant Chandan
August 'Riots' One Year On: A Black Power Perspective
08 Aug 2012
by Sukant Chandan Last summer’s uprisings in cities across England struck fear in the ruling order. But, what did Black Brits learn from the experience? “We cannot understand what happens in Tottenham, Brixton, Peckham, Handsworth, etc. unless we understand what is happening in Africa, Asia and…
Paul Street
Killer-Cops and the War on Black America
15 Aug 2012
by Paul Street The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement’s groundbreaking report on police killings of Blacks is a snapshot of war. “The executions continue nationwide: from north to south, east to west, in rural towns and large metropolitan areas.” The police and other racist pull the…
Mr. Davey D
NY Times Underestimates Oakland’s Radicals
15 Aug 2012
by Davey D The corporate media are always declaring radical activism dead, hoping their predictions will come true. Oakland is, according to the New York Times, situated right on the edge of the radical extinction zone. But Davey D sets the Times straight: Oakland’s Occupy movement…
Ezili Danto
US Control of Haiti and Other Little Republics' Vote at the UN is Not New
15 Aug 2012
by Ezili Dantò Imperialists all want the same thing: to subjugate smaller peoples to the interest of empire. Any imperial power worth his salt is trailing an entourage of captive little countries echoing the bully’s every word. Today, just as in the days of President Franklin Roosevelt…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Tired Old So-Called Leftists Give Same Old Excuses For Supporting Obama in 2012
16 Aug 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Abject and unwavering support of President Barack Obama on the part of blacks and what used to be called “the left” has made them pretty much irrelevant since Obama emerged as a viable presidential candidate back in mid-2007. After five years of the Age of…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
KNOW FRACKIN' WAY...
22 Aug 2012
by Raymond Nat Turner Big gaseous capitalists are “Ejaculating Satin's sperm into Stolen Native American land, Mother Earth, Pachymama….”
Solomon Comissiong
Euro-American Songs of Racism, War and White Supremacy: An African Perspective
22 Aug 2012
by Solomon Comissiong The most insidious propaganda might have a really nice melody, or even a compelling beat, yet be “laced with untruth after white supremacist untruth.” America’s propaganda machinery is awesome. “If we don’t respect America’s propaganda beast it will certainly…
Dr. Reginald Clark
Deadly Fallout: How Obama’s Healthcare Law Provides Unaffordable Access to Health Insurance and Fosters Preventable Deaths
22 Aug 2012
by Dr. Reginald Clark Despite the hype from Democrats, “the high rate of premature deaths in California and throughout America will continue” even after the Obama health plan is fully implemented, in 2020. “A poverty-level working California citizen… will personally be charged $7,200…
Dr. Boyce Watkins
Al Sharpton Says Biden’s Slavery Comments Were “Over the Top,” Then He Retreats
22 Aug 2012
by Dr. Boyce Watkins Barack Obama sends his number two, a white man, to tell Black folks that Republicans want to throw them back into slavery. You’d think Al Sharpton would object. But no, because “Black leadership has been effectively co-opted by the Obama Administration and the…
Paul Buchheit
Something Demonic is Going On in Buffalo’s County Jail
22 Aug 2012
by Chris Stevenson Suicide seem epidemic at the Erie County Holding Center, where persons awaiting trail in the Buffalo, New York, area are confined. The corpses are piling up so rapidly, the place ought to be called Buffalo’s Death Row.