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by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: The story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq
19 Mar 2013
by Ajamu Baraka A decade after the US attempt to “shock and awe” humanity and usher in its new “American century” more than a million Iraqis are dead, and trillions of dollars have been squandered, while the high ranking architects and enablers of these monstrous crimes are still riding high...
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
From Detroit to Cyprus, Banksters in Search of Prey
21 Mar 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Detroit and the people of Cyprus share the same enemy.” The Lords of Capital, who are preparing to snatch chunks of cash straight out of ordinary people’s accounts in Cyprus, to pay for a bank bailout, are the same class that has “devalued the franchise of the 49…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Vampire Capitalism Comes to Detroit, Michigan and Dekalb County, Georgia. Where is the Black Political Class?
20 Mar 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Disaster capitalism is the manufacture of phony “crises” to divert government revenue directly to banksters and sell government assets off to privatizing looters. City government in Detroit, and the school system in suburban Atlanta's Dekalb County, population…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: What Ails the GOP
27 Mar 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Republicans have stripped down their constituency to only “the worst of the worst” Americans: “white supremacists, misogynists and other dead enders.” Obama’s Democrats have absorbed the rest of the GOP, to become the New Republican Party of…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
A Lil’ Bit ‘Bout Leo’s Legacy…
26 Mar 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner The “Leo” of this poem is the legendary Black longshore union activist Leo Robinson, who died this past January. “The deep, dark chocolate brown, booming / Baritone brother sportin’ black, Lenin-like / Greek Fisherman’s cap / comin’ Coltranish…
Solomon Comissiong
The War on White Supremacy
26 Mar 2013
by Solomon Comissiong White supremacy is a killer of plague-like dimensions, “responsible for well over 100 million deaths” of Africans and Native Americans, alone. For centuries, white supremacists have waged war on the non-white world. “In 2008 they selected their newest weapon – Barack Obama.”
Pascal Robert
The Peculiar Black “Politics of Redemption”
26 Mar 2013
by Pascal Robert When the oppressed seek to “redeem” themselves in the eyes of their oppressors, the struggle for liberation is lost before it begins. “The Black community must wake up out of the ‘hope and change’ induced stupor in order to mobilize effective oppositional politics.”
Auset Marian Lewis
Dr. Ben Carson: Send in the Clowns
27 Mar 2013
by Auset Marian Lewis The world-famous Black brain surgeon from Baltimore is nothing but a “Samuel L. Jackson-Django turncoat,” says the author. If the great Ida B. Wells encountered Ben Carson, “she probably would shoot him with her Winchester.”
Friends of the Congo
Congo Genocide: This Time Must be Different
27 Mar 2013
by Friends of Congo Bosco Ntaganda is “the third high-profile veteran of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and Rwanda-backed militia leader in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to have fled to Rwanda after having committed heinous crimes in the Congo.” He did not act…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Throwing BRICS at the U.S. Empire
27 Mar 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford History has placed the BRICS nations on the path of confrontation with a superpower in decline. Washington is prepared to strangle the world into submission, or drown it in chaos. “Objectively, the United States has positioned itself as the great and implacable…