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Jean Damu
Did Susan Rice Give Osama bin Laden a Get Out of Jail Free Pass?
19 Dec 2012
by Jean Damu Years before 9/11, the Sudanese government offered to turn Osama bin Laden over to the Saudis for transfer to the U.S. Instead, the U.S. refused the offer, and later attacked a Sudanese pharmaceuticals factory. “Why did Rice and Clarke really turn their backs on the Sudanese?” Did…
Thomas C. Mountain
Mali, Wahabis and Saudis; Following the Money Trail
09 Jan 2013
By Thomas C. Mountain The US and Western-backed overthrow of Libya's Ghadaffi irrevocably altered Africa's continental landscape. Chad and Mali, already paralyzed by excessive debt and climate change, are in the crosshairs of well-armed rebel “movements” operating across the Libyan border,…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Better Break Away from the Judas Quisling Class
09 Jan 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner “While we're hurting, they're living large and hearty On corporate dollars from their Democratic Party.”
Bill Quigley
Hundreds of Thousands Homeless in Haiti Three Years After Earthquake
09 Jan 2013
by Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas The military occupation of Haiti could not possibly have been intended to help the Haitian people, whose material conditions have dramatically worsened under foreign rule. Most dramatically, “360,000 Haitians are still displaced and living hand to mouth in 496…
Malaika Kambon
U.S. issues Haiti Travel Warning: How Dare They!
09 Jan 2013
by Malaika Kambon In a monumental perversion of truth and morality the U.S. warns its citizens that Haiti is a land of criminality and disease. Yet, it is the U.S. and its allies who are committing “robbery, lawlessness, the spread of infectious disease and the destruction of proper medical…
Benjamin Woods
A Few Thoughts on Django Unchained
09 Jan 2013
by Benjamin Woods There is no mystery to the appeal of Quentin Tarantino’s blockbuster film. “The enthusiastic response that Django has provoked from Africans demonstrates the desire for art that inspires a culture of resistance.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: A Real Life Django
09 Jan 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Want to hear a real life story of Black love in the time of slavery? Read a book. The fictional Django has nothing on the flesh and blood brother Madison Washington, whose love for his wife, his people, and freedom could fill a TV miniseries…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s Steady Road to Austerity
10 Jan 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama has been remarkably disciplined and focused in his four-year pursuit of a “grand austerity bargain” with the GOP. “With this month’s agreement to make Bush’s tax cuts permanent for 98 percent of the public, Obama and the Republicans’ positions…
Stephen Gowans
Book Review: Obama’s War Against Libya
09 Jan 2013
For eight months in 2011, the U.S. and its NATO allies waged aggressive war against the sovereign state of Libya, to the cheers of much of what passes for the Left in the imperialist countries. Maximilian C. Forte’s book “presents a multi-factorial account, which invokes elements of the hunt for…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
CORONATION
16 Jan 2013
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner “In what stilettos will they Electric Slide On thin ice, above fiscal cliffs of foreclosure, Joblessness and poverty?”