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Wangui Kimari
Capital: The Only Winner in Kenya’s 2013 Elections
09 Apr 2013
by Wangui Kimari Multinational capital and its superpower enforcer, the United States, treated the recent Kenyan election like their own property. As it turns out, “Our new president is the biggest land owner in Kenya and our almost president has the support of American imperialism.”
Sally Chung
Fisher v. UT Austin: The End of Affirmative Action as We Know It?
09 Apr 2013
by Sally Chung The U.S. Supreme Court’s history of affirmative action rulings has led to a dead end, in which the University of Texas “has to argue in favor of the system it really ought to be arguing against.” The legal catch-22: “Those who want to advocate for racial consciousness can only do so…
Bill Quigley
Obama Aims To Cut Social Security & Other Federal Benefits? And This is a Surprise?
10 Apr 2013
President Obama's proposal to cut Social Security by "chaining" it to the consumer price index will cost seniors a good 10% of monthly benefits a decade from now. Republicans didn't force him into this, it's his opening proposal for negotiating. Is anybody even surprised?
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Is This Barack Obama's 2nd Term? Is it Bill Clinton's 3rd? Or Is It Ronald Reagan's 9th?
11 Apr 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon They say that elections do matter, and that there are real differences between Republican and Democratic presidents. But backing up the view to 30 years, that difference looks a lot more like continuity, both at home and in America's global empire.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin On De Offal Office
16 Apr 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Hail to the thief, and the office he thieves out of.
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Manchester, Texas: Tip of the Environmental Nightmare
16 Apr 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice as the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, should hear the children's voices in Houston’s Manchester community, whose life prospects have been shrunken by environmental racism. “We are…
Tom Stephens
Detroit: The Parable of the Banksters and the City
16 Apr 2013
by Tom Stephens The corporate takeover of Detroit is “a completely unprecedented spectacle” of infinite corruption and brazen bullying by the 1%. “Jones Day and its megabucks corporate client list are perfectly positioned to profit from Detroit’s ‘restructuring’ thru land speculation, privatization…
Carlos Martinez
A Tribute to Chris Hani on the 20th Anniversary of His Assassination
16 Apr 2013
by Carlos Martinez Chris Hani was a man of the people who saw the struggle for socialism and African liberation as inseparable. A leader of both the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress, Hani “realized that national liberation, though essential, would not bring about…
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
South Africa: Chris Hani Would be Angry at ANC “Adopting Our Class Opponents' Policies”
16 Apr 2013
by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa In the 20 years since the assassination of South African communist leader Chris Hani, the contradictions inherent in the agreement leading to electoral democracy have come to a head. "Comrade Chris would have condemned the brutal killing and…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
“Operation Ghetto Storm”: The New Face of U.S. Fascism
17 Apr 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The pace quickens in the killing of Black people in the U.S. Operation Ghetto Storm, a new report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, clocks the rate of extrajudicial executions of African Americans at one every 28 hours – up from last year’s report titled Every Thirty-Six Hours.…