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Auset Marian Lewis
Whites Use More Drugs Than Blacks: The Great Narco Lie
13 Mar 2013
by Auset Marian Lewis According to some studies, whites do significantly more drugs, including crack, than Blacks. Yet, the Black man has been made the face of drug crime. “Using fear of ‘the other’ as a chisel to carve out a hidden political agenda is boilerplate American strategy and nothing new…
Atlanta Public Sector Alliance
Silence On Privatiztion Is Complicity
13 Mar 2013
by the Atlanta Public Sector Alliance In metro Atlanta, North America's second largest concentration of African descendants, local elites including black Democrats, are aggressively consolidating the privatization of public education and public transit. If they can do it here, with the active…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The U.S. Scorched Earth Policy, Ten Years After Iraq Invasion
13 Mar 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In desperation to halt the slide into “non-empire” status, the U.S. makes every government on Earth a potential target for “humanitarian” military intervention. The imposition of chaos is Washington’s default foreign policy as an alternative to “the Chinese…
Paul Street
What May Come: Asian Americans and the Virginia Tech Shootings
18 Apr 2007
by Tamara K. Nopper The fact that the apparent gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a South Korean immigrant will inevitably spark corporate media speculation about the "Asian" mentality, says the author. Already, the pundits are circulating the old racist canard that Asian men have "frail egos…
Tamara K. Nopper
Lynching: Black Resistance and Capitulation
06 Jun 2007
by BAR contributing editor Tamara K. Nopper Writer and activist L. V. Gaither wasn't surprised to discover three Black faces in a photo of the crowd that watched the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, in 1916. "I was expecting [to find] them," said Gaither, whose new book explores the…
Bill Quigley
Obama’s ‘Race Speech’ as Neoslave Narrative
22 Oct 2008
by Tamara K. Nopper "The neoslave narrative is the American dream story in which struggle and pain are part of a progressive journey toward ultimate assimilation and socioeconomic success." That the tale Barack Obama tries to weave, but there's nothing original about it. Ms. Nopper examines Obama's…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: U.S./Israel Axis of Evil
20 Mar 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “If anyone can get away with making Israeli fantasies of regional domination come true, it is Obama.” He’s got more faces than a Hindu god, and smoother moves than the NBA. “He killed Gaddafi, he is destroying Syria, and he is sending troops to…
Chris Hedges
The Shame of America’s Gulag
20 Mar 2013
by Chris Hedges The barbarity of solitary confinement was reintroduced into the U.S. prison system following the Black Freedom and anti-imperialist movements of the Sixties, part of the “seamless evolution of political and social incapacitation of poor people of color.” At root “is the predatory…
Simon Tesfamariam
Human Trafficking and the Human Rights Agenda Against Eritrea
20 Mar 2013
by Simon Tesfamariam Eritrea is among the very few African nations that have avoided entanglement with the U.S. military machine. As a consequence, Eritrea has been subjected to a campaign of sanctions, threats and lies, much of it centering on allegations of human trafficking and use of child…
Jacob Mundy
Creating Terror in North Africa
19 Mar 2013
by Jacob Mundy The Sahel region of northern Africa was among the first to be militarized under U.S. “war on terror” doctrine. It is now described as “an arc of instability said to run 4,000 miles from Somalia through the Sahel to the central Sahara.” The U.S. created the conditions that will “…