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by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
An African American Perspective on U.S. Exceptionalism
18 Sep 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Russian leader Vladimir Putin caused great consternation when he countered President Obama’s assertions of American “exceptionalism” in the pages of the New York Times. But the crimes of the United States are no secret to those who have been “invaded,…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Pipe Dreams…
17 Sep 2013
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner War addicts crawl ‘round Capitalist Hill on hands and knees…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider - Jimmy Carter and Israel's Apartheid
20 Dec 2006
by Margaret Kimberley Former President Jimmy Carter does everyone a service. Though he may be forced to back off eventually, its title tells an important truth rarely heard in American politics.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama or Cynthia McKinney -- Who Represents Black America Toward Palestine, Israel and the Middle East?
08 Jul 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has just returned from an Israeli jail where she was briefly imprisoned, along with human rights activists from several nations, for her second attempt at publicly running the brutal US-Israeli blockade trying to bring…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Apartheid is the Root of Israel’s Aggressions
22 Sep 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic below to download the MP3 audio of this commentary. Israel reacted with typical feigned outrage at the United Nations report on war crimes and human rights violations committed by its forces in Gaza, last…
Ali Abunimah
The Israeli State And Its Zionist Project Have Failed, Explains Ali Abunimah
17 Feb 2010
The Zionist project, the Israeli mission of occupation, ethnic cleansing, expropriation and colonial resettlement of Arab Palestine is untenable, and cannot succeed even in the short run. Just as in apartheid South Africa, Israel's native subcontractors cannot keep the natives in order,…
Bill Quigley
Obama (and Big Media) Turn Blind Eye to Israeli Apartheid
23 Jul 2008
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Israel is now an apartheid state, according to the publisher of Ha'aretz, that country's largest circulation daily newspaper. The occasion was the recent renewal of Israeli citizenship laws which refuse to recognize marriages and families among…
Motsoko Pheko
Are America and NATO replacing the UN?
24 Sep 2013
by Motsoko Pheko The United States and its allies behave as if their will is international law, in Syria and everywhere on the globe. “To trust such America and NATO investigators to be impartial in their search for chemical weapons and to identify who used them is like naively believing that…
Susan Hagen
Legacy of Slavery Still Fuels Anti-Black Attitudes in the Deep South
24 Sep 2013
by Susan Hagen A study at the University of Rochester attempts a statistical analysis of white southern racism and finds – surprise! – that slavery lies at the root. “The legacy of the plantation economy and its reliance on the forced labor of African Americans continues to exacerbate racial bias…
Bill Quigley
Racist Pot Prosecution in Louisiana
24 Sep 2013
by Bill Quigley Although whites and Blacks use marijuana at roughly equal rates, Blacks are far more likely to be arrested for possession. In Louisiana, the racial bias in prosecution is extreme. “In Tangipahoa Parish, blacks are 11.8 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than whites and…