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Sputnik Kilambi
Anti-African Racism in India
20 Feb 2013
by Sputnik Kilambi Indian society appears to be confronting the horrors of rape – except the “rapes that have happened and keep happening to women somehow not considered “daughters of the nation.” Brutal assaults against Africans go largely unreported in the nation with the most thriving press in…
Kamau Franklin
Mississippi Finally Ratifies the 13th Amendment – Here Are Some Other Things that Mississippi Decided to Ratify First.
27 Feb 2013
By Kamau Franklin Mississippi is the poorest state in the union, and the state with the highest percentage of people with African ancestry. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. But the list of things the magnolia state is first and nearly first in, apart from balmy weather, is not a good one.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why Does the US Chamber of Commerce Want to Train or Replace Your Elected School Board, If They Haven't Already?
28 Feb 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A key role in the elite drive to privatize public education is being played by privately owned school “accreditation” agencies, which are immune from public scrutiny, and under the absolute thrall of pro-privatization forces like the US Chamber of Commerce and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Torture of Bradley Manning
06 Mar 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The simple decency of Bradley Manning, who faces life in prison for being a good citizen, throws in graphic relief the infinite depravity of the current U.S. regime. “Lawlessness has now become perfected and normalized under the Obama…
Fran Quigley
The U.S. Holds the Key to Duvalier Prosecution in Haiti
05 Mar 2013
by Fran Quigley The United States claims that human rights is central to its foreign policy – a dubious proposition, and one that is certainly false, in Haiti, where former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier is trying to make a comeback. Washington is taking a “hands off” approach to Duvalier…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Whistleblower Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty to Exposing US Atrocities
06 Mar 2013
by Kevin Zeese and Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Bradley Manning, a prisoner of the U.S. military and the national security state, could serve life in prison for revealing the “true nature of twenty-first century asymmetric warfare.” His crime was to expose the real “purpose, posture and pretenses of the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin On Baby Doc
05 Mar 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier should be sentenced to “meet up wit his daddy,” down deep in the hole with “de Debil.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Hugo Chavez: New World Rising
07 Mar 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The great Bolivarian is gone – which means the U.S. will soon escalate its destabilization campaign against his country. “Washington hopes that Venezuelan socialism cannot survive without Chavez.” But the U.S. cannot roll back the movement that Chavez did so much…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Rand Paul Exposes the Democrats
13 Mar 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Rand Paul was denounced as the wrong man with the right message, but most Democrats were too craven to deliver any message at all on the high crimes of their president and his killing assistant. “At the end of the day, only two Democrats (Ron…
Wayne Madsen
“Scientific Assassinations” are Part of the CIA’s Modus Operandi
13 Mar 2013
by Wayne Madsen President Hugo Chavez believed that foreign enemies had given him and other Latin American leftist leaders cancer. His successor agrees that “Chavez was struck in a ‘scientific attack’ by Venezuela’s ‘historical enemies.’” No one doubts Washington’s willingness to use its thousands…