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Pascal Robert
Barack Obama: Wall Street’s Perfect Manchurian Candidate
17 Apr 2013
by Pascal Robert Barack Obama has been in Wall Street's pocket since at least 2006, when he spoke to the fat cats who would bankroll his campaign and staff his government. The video tells the sorry tale and puts the present in context. “Listen to what he says about the antiquated programs from…
Physicians for a National Health Care Plan
Beyond Obamacare: How A Single Payer System Can Save Health Care in the U.S.
16 Apr 2013
By Physicians For A National Health Care Plan Published on April 15 at Physicians For a National Health Care Plan Unlike Medicare, which President Johnson had up and running eleven months after passage, the Obama administration cynically delayed the full effect of its “Affordable Care Act” also…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Big Nausea: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache
17 Apr 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Who will defend the indefensible Obama? Answer: There will be fewer and fewer Obamapologists, as each day passes. “For the monumentally dysfunctional Black Misleadership Class, the winding down of the Age of Obama is cause for frantic repositioning, and for the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin On The War On Terror
24 Apr 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Obama can find his anti-terror tools at the 99 cents store.
Chris Hedges
The Persecution of Lynne Stewart
24 Apr 2013
by Chris Hedges Lynne Stewart has served three years for the crime of zealously defending her client. Suffering stage 4 cancer, she sometimes sheds “a few tears at the love and intensity of those who have written to state their support.” Family and friends ask that she be allowed compassionate…
Omali Yeshitela
Fortress America Besieged: War Penetrates Imperialist Sanctuary
24 Apr 2013
by Omali Yeshitela The Who and Why of the events in Boston are by no means clear, given the machinations of the U.S. secret services. One thing is certain, however: “The Obama regime will use the Boston bombing as an excuse to initiate even more odious attacks on freedom within the U.S. with the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Every Day Terror
24 Apr 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Americans are like spoiled children, whining over their suffering, while showing no empathy for anyone else’s.” Worse, they give the OK to kill other people’s children all across the non-white world. They are easily frightened, throwing away…
Okello Oculi
Rebels and Love in Central African Republic
24 Apr 2013
by Okello Oculi The French and assorted European and Arab slavers loved the people of the Central African Republic to death. More recently, the country has repeatedly dissolved in lusty coups, abetted by her foreign lovers. It is time for the African Union to end the one-way embrace of the Central…
Seema Sadanandan
Police Brutality in DC Classroom
24 Apr 2013
by Seema Sadanandan The Newtown massacre generated reflexive calls for posting police in classrooms, a policy that has long been in place in inner city schools, with devastating effect. “In the matrix of policies and police ushering black and brown students out of classrooms and into courtrooms,…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Obama Legacy, Pt 1 of Many: Top Ten Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama
25 Apr 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Barack Obama leaves the White House in January 2017, what will black America, his earliest and most consistent supporters, have to show for making his political career possible. We'll have the T-shirts and buttons and posters, the souvenirs. That will be…