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Paul Buchheit
5 Ways Privatization Is Ruining America
22 Aug 2012
By Paul Buchheit A pernicious but popular myth holds that private businesses are more efficient at delivering services than government. It's popular because corporate media have whispered and screamed it into our ears for decades. It's pernicious because although it's untrue it makes vast…
Jemima Pierre
Scared and Silent: Censoring the Truth Under Obama
22 Aug 2012
by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre Legacies are built around what is known about a presidency. However, President Obama is amassing a legacy of secrets kept and whistleblowers punished. “The Obama administration has been after Wikileaks since that organization released…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Fletcherism and Fakery: Guarding Obama’s Left Flank
22 Aug 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s key apologists on the Left have released their 2012 position paper, in which “the facts of the Obama presidency – his actual behavior on war, austerity, and civil liberties – are deemed irrelevant.” We need four more years of Obama, they say,…
Bill Quigley
Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After
28 Aug 2012
by Bill Quigley and Davida Finger Racists and land-grabbers were celebrating the inundation of New Orleans even before the dead had been counted. A “new” New Orleans, they predicted, would rise out of the floodwaters. Seven years later, it is a city of excruciating pain – as indexed by the authors…
Linn Washington
The Secret Scheme To Sabotage Abu-Jamal's Appeal Rights
28 Aug 2012
by Linn Washington Jr. The State of Pennsylvania failed to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, but its judicial branch remains determined to keep him prison for the rest of his life, by legal hook or crook. The same judge that helped cover up the trial judge’s promise to “fry that nigger,” this…
Arun Gupta
The 99% Take on the Republican National Convention
29 Aug 2012
by Arun Gupta About 500 protesters greeted the Republican convention, in Tampa. “What united the crowd was the 99% rhetoric,” which the White House has adopted – without the substance – from the Occupy Movement. No mention of how the president’s own austerity initiatives “helped enable…
Mark P. Fancher
The People’s Rage in South Africa
29 Aug 2012
by Mark P. Fancher South Africa did not complete its revolution with the transfer of government power to Black hands in 1994. The Marikana mine massacre shows that imperialism “will not tolerate any disruption in the flow of profits from the exploitation of highly valuable natural…
William Bowles
Economic and Social Crisis in Post Apartheid South Africa
29 Aug 2012
by William Bowles “Has the ANC and its partners in the Tripartite Alliance, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the SACP betrayed their roots and sold out Black South Africa?” The massacre of miners at Marikana, and the Alliance’s callous response to the carnage,…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Birmingham On The Hudson
28 Aug 2012
by Raymond Nat Turner “Another generation of Gordon Gekkos Parasitic, psycho, thug CEOs Funny money men, where anything goes Republi-crats and Demo-con echoes”
Wilmer J. Leon III
Voter ID Laws and the American Coup d'état
29 Aug 2012
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III “A small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus is attempting to effect regime change by corrupting the American democratic process.” The putsch is to be accomplished by photo ID legislation that is tailored to shrink specific political demographics in…