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Jesse Hagopian
Seismic Imperialism: Haiti’s Buried Cry for Help on the Third Anniversary of the Earthquake
16 Jan 2013
by Jesse Hagopian Under Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama, Haiti has been deprived of its sovereignty and ability to defend herself from natural disaster and human predators. “The world's most powerful governments and institutions have imposed policies that have compounded the damage…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Moves on Iran
17 Jan 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley No allegation against Iran is too wild for the U.S. corporate media megaphone. The fact that Iran’s modest arms industry makes a small proportion of the bullets floating around Africa is made to seem the equivalent of a mushroom cloud. “While…
C. Liegh McInnis
Django Unchained: Don’t Miss What’s Truly Important Because of the Smoke and Mirrors
16 Jan 2013
by C. Liegh McInnis It was never correct to group much of African American-themed cinema under the heading “Blacksploitation.” The latest blockbuster of the genre deserves to be examined as serious social commentary. “Django Unchained exposes well the complex classes of slaves, the…
Ama Biney
Haiti: Capitalist Plunder and Empty Promises
16 Jan 2013
by Ama Biney Disaster capitalism operates in the raw in Haiti, where foreign governments, corporations and non-governmental organizations conspire with a venal local elite to mass poverty and brazen resource theft. “It is highly debatable as to whether the lives of most Haitians have markedly…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
"Entitle Meant"
22 Jan 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner “Entitlement meant you worked your asses off No big ‘bailouts’ at the corporate trough”
Bill Quigley
MLK Injustice Index 2013: Racism, Materialism and Militarism in the US
23 Jan 2013
by Bill Quigley The three great evils cited by Dr. Martin Luther King have proliferated since his passing. Here’s an index of their influence, today.
Mark P. Fancher
Mali Invasion Shows That “Adieu” Does Not Always Mean
23 Jan 2013
by Mark P. Fancher Whether rightists or “socialists,” all French governments believe in their inalienable right to dominate Africa. French troops are on the move in Mali and the Central African Republic, and not long ago overthrew the regime in Ivory Coast. If the colonial era has…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The State Killing of Aaron Swartz
23 Jan 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A brilliant young practitioner of human interconnectedness, Aaron Swartz “played a key role in defeating the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which used the phony threat of online piracy to make the internet less open.” He was hounded…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The White House Un-Reality Show
24 Jan 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Despite the fact that “it was Barack Obama who began the current austerity offensive in the weeks before delivering his first inaugural address,” the president was allowed to pose as a champion of the social safety net. Having redefined war, he once…
Haider A. Khan
The American Revolution from an Anti-Racist Viewpoint
22 Jan 2013
by Haider A. Khan Although far more Blacks fought on the British side in the U.S. War of Independence, those Africans that sided with George Washington turned out to be his best soldiers. The white settlers won, but Blacks lost. “If the American Revolution had liberated slaves not only…