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Bill Quigley
Ending Uganda’s “Brilliant” Genocide
19 Sep 2007
by Milton Allimadi The United States' biggest ally in sub-Saharan Africa is Uganda, ruled by Yoweri Museveni, the butcher of the Congo, where at least three million people died because of the ravages of Museveni's and other pillaging armies. Musevini's regime was rewarded with aid and great praise…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Peace Dividend
13 Feb 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner General Dynamics, Northrup- Grummond-Lockheed-Martin marionettes Over-populating capitalist hill— Pushing up shares on the NASDAQ?...
Belen Fernandez
Towards a Police State in New York
13 Feb 2013
by Belen Fernandez Hyper-surveillance of American Muslims leads U.S. secret police to draw strange cultural conclusions. They note that giving up "cigarettes, drinking, gambling and urban hip-hop gangster clothes" may indicate a Muslim's "progression along the radicalization continuum" toward "…
Chris Hedges
Preventive Detention and the Death of the Democratic State
13 Feb 2013
by Chris Hedges The author, a journalist and plaintiff in a suit contesting the constitutionality of President Obama’s preventive detention law, asks: “Could I be seen by the security and surveillance state, because I challenge the official narrative, as a collaborator with the enemy?” The answer…
BATV
Black Agenda TV – Season 1, Episode 2
13 Feb 2013
by Black Agenda Report & BW Moving Images In this edition of Black Agenda TV Black America and the Genocide in Congo; African Americans have not used their political clout to stop the killing. Obama’s Race to the Top Hurts Black Students, Teachers, Communities; Drives school closings and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s State of the Corporate Union
14 Feb 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama’s State of the Union address makes it official: the 2012 election has brought us back to 2011, when the outlines of his grand bargain with the Republicans became clear. In his vision for future, “austerity in people’s programs is traded for tax…
Wilmer J. Leon III
The Obama Administrations Dick Cheney Moment
13 Feb 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
What Happens When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce "Trains" Black Elected Officials?
17 Mar 2010
The hard right US Chamber of Commerce is among the principal lobbying and propaganda tentacles of America's corporate ruling class. Among much else, it emphatically denies the existence of man-made climate change and is enthusiastically in favor of privatizing almost everything from education to…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Big Eyz Fo' Massa William Mule
20 Feb 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Don' know what it tiz 'bout Massa William, voice, smile? His hornin'? He do play de sax, Or, de carrut and stik he carry?
Dr. Reginald Clark
The Expansion of Black American Misery under Barack Obama’s Watch
20 Feb 2013
by Dr. Reginald Clark Black folks are not only far worse off “since 2009 under President Obama’s economic and job creation policies” – Africans Americans are the only group that “has taken a definitive step backwards since then.” The main reason: “lack of attention to employment in urban and rural…