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Diana Johnstone
R2P and Genocide Prevention
05 Feb 2013
by Diana Johnstone “Humanitarian” military intervention under the dubious doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is designed to negate international law regarding the sovereignty of nations, in order to justify aggression. “War is transformed into a chivalrous action to rescue whole…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Sniper Gets Sniped
06 Feb 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley America, born in genocide and constantly renewed by bloodbaths, treats mass murder as a virtue. Chris Kyle answered the “clarion call of white supremacy, manifest destiny and imperial delusion.” Now that he’s dead, the world is a better…
Akinyele Umoja
“When Other Folks Give Up Theirs…” Black Freedom and the Gun Control Debate
06 Feb 2013
Contrary to Congressman John Lewis’ revision of history, “the notion that the Civil Rights movement was exclusively nonviolent is a popular mythology.” In fact, “Some members of Lewis’s Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee picked up weapons and worked with community people to defend their…
John Pilger
The Real Invasion of Africa is Not News and a License to Lie is Hollywood's Gift
05 Feb 2013
by John Pilger The cold truth is: the U.S. and its allies’ armed “interventions” seek the “implantation of the West's business plan for Africa, together with the rape of multi-ethnic Syria and the conquest of independent Iran.” The corporate media fiction is: good guys versus terror.
Dr. Boyce Watkins
Perhaps Black People Should Stop Expecting Equality
06 Feb 2013
by Dr. Boyce Watkins Dr. Watkins, an esteemed author, economist and social commentator, has seen the error of his ways. He has been wrong to argue that President Obama be made accountable to Black people, his most ardent supporters. Instead, Blacks should be accountable to the…
Pascal Robert
The Historical Failure of Black Leadership
06 Feb 2013
by Pascal Robert There’s something wrong with the process by which Black leadership is selected. “Black people are trapped in a viscous cycle of looking at their favorite leaders and revering them like baseball cards.” What’s needed is democracy in struggle. “People must be trained with the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
They're Baaack...
05 Feb 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner “In charged the black bourgeoisie's creme de la creme Maneuvering madly to touch their Messiah's hem.”
Bill Quigley
Condeelicious Rapps
21 Feb 2007
Bill Quigley
The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa
21 Feb 2007
Part Five by Milton Allimadi The defeat of British troops by an African, Muslim army at Khartoum, Sudan in 1885 sent shockwaves throughout the European world. The Mahdi's triumph over colonial forces challenged both white and Christian notions of supremacy over "…
Bill Quigley
The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa
28 Feb 2007
Part Six by Milton Allimadi As European powers consolidated their colonial conquests in Africa, their book-writers and journalists churned out volumes of justifications for white supremacy. Not only were Africans unfit for self-rule, said the racial propagandists, Blacks were "too low down,…