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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Mitt Romney, The Less Effective Evil
19 Sep 2012
by BAR editor and senior Margaret Kimberley Mitt Romney is living proof that incompetent white guys with money can go far in life – but not, this time, to the White House. The poor little rich boy will doubtless blame the 47%. But Obama will treat them no better. “If he is re-elected…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Rahm Emanuel: Point Man For Obama's Bipartisan Pork Barrel Pedagogy
20 Sep 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Despite universal hostility in corporate media, and new laws savagely restricting their right to strike, or even what they could bargain over, Chicago teachers mustered broad parent support behind their 7 day strike, now suspended. What does the Chicago…
Bill Quigley
Fifteen Issues this Election is Not About
24 Sep 2012
by Bill Quigley The ties that bind the two corporate parties and their presidential candidates are much stronger than any differences that separate them. That’s why a progressive platform could be built almost entirely around opposition to those positions shared by Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.…
Dr. Reginald Clark
Why Obama Health Care Act Should Be Named “Obamacare for the Few and ObamaDon’tCare for the Majority”
25 Sep 2012
by Dr. Reginald Clark President Obama uses the term “universal” to describe his health care plan. But “well over 100 million American citizens will NOT be covered with a health insurance Plan that makes their health care costs “affordable” when they get sick.” There is only one…
Solomon Comissiong
When Will Radical Become the Norm?
24 Sep 2012
by Solomon Comissiong “Americans have methodically been taught to believe they reside within the world's most free and open "democratic” society,” with the highest standard of living on the planet. It’s a lie, yet those who point out that the narrative is false are “characterized as ‘…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Talking Peace and Justice with Ahmadinejad
27 Sep 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “The American government wants to expand its hegemony over the center of energy in the world, which is the Middle East,” said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a Manhattan dinner with mainly American peace and justice advocates. Iran considers…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Emancipation
27 Sep 2012
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Emancipation Proclamation left Blacks in the slave states that had not seceded from the Union still in chains, and might better have been called “the emancipation but not for everyone proclamation.” African Americans have often…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Voting As A Constitutional Right: What A Real “Protect The Vote” Movement Would Look Like
27 Sep 2012
The right to vote is under a persistent, many-sided and sustained siege. In an era of hostile courts, complicit media, and big money dominating all the legislatures in the land, how can we launch a movement that will actually establish and defend the right to vote for ourselves, our children and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Why Barack Obama is the More Effective Evil
21 Mar 2012
Glen Ford at the Left Forum No matter how much evil Barack Obama actually accomplishes during his presidency, people that call themselves leftists insist on dubbing him the Lesser Evil. Not only is Obama not given proper credit for out-evil-ing George Bush, domestically and…
Mike Pirsch
I’m Afraid of the 99%
03 Oct 2012
by Mike Pirsch The Occupy movement was based on the proposition that the State serves the interests of the 1%, while the rest of us are left out in the cold. But, why do 99% of Americans vote for presidential candidates of “the financial industry dictatorship and its enforcer, the…