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Cynthia McKinney
The World Needs Peace – But Not a Pax Americana
25 Sep 2013
by Cynthia McKinney “The war machine of the United States, Israel, and NATO will continue to roll until we stop it. The Bolivarian Alliance countries of Latin America are showing us the way – that we can achieve democracy and self-determination and liberation with ballots instead of bullets…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Crawling contradictions…
24 Sep 2013
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Tuesday he’s renaming Children “Collateral Damage,” Reducing family trees to charcoal
brian kwoba
who am i?
24 Sep 2013
by brian kwoba my father was a harvard-trained capitalist economist my mother was a consultant for the world bank and white-savior-industrial complex
Abayomi Azikiwe
Detroit Citizens Say No to Bankruptcy
25 Sep 2013
by Abayomi Azikiwe Detroit’s dictatorial Emergency Manager is attempting to railroad the Black metropolis into bankruptcy for the benefit of predatory bankers. However, the people of Detroit, in public hearings and in the streets, “are saying that the municipality is not a private corporation and…
Mark P. Fancher
Innocent Kenyan Blood Drips from Imperial Hands
01 Oct 2013
by Mark P. Fancher The carnage at a Kenyan shopping mall is a direct result of U.S. policy in Somalia. In 2006, Washington and Ethiopia invaded Somalia, overthrowing a moderate Islamic government and plunging the country into a war that has killed hundreds of thousands and left millions displaced.…
Nina Martin
The Impact and Echoes of the Wal-Mart Discrimination Case
01 Oct 2013
by Nina Martin Wal-Mart’s victory in a massive women’s class action suit, two years ago, has thrown a deep chill into employee civil rights litigation. “As the case goes on, the Supreme Court keeps drilling more nails into the coffin of effective civil rights law.” Mega-discrimination requires…
Paul Street
From Daley Plaza to Syria: Obama’s Forgotten, Fading Imperial Promise
01 Oct 2013
by Paul Street Purported progressives who claim to be shocked and appalled at President Obama’s warmongering have been willfully ignorant for a very long time. “Its’ a shame folks in leading ‘progressive’ circles didn’t look more seriously into the militantly imperial content of Obama’s speeches…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Disposable Killing Machines R US
01 Oct 2013
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner The wakeful sleep of the 1% is Haunted by long shadows of Conscious soldiers, progeny Of militant mass movements —
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Shutdown Game
02 Oct 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What’s at stake in the partial “shutdown” of government? Certainly not Obamacare, which was never in danger. It’s all an exercise in drawing fake lines in the sandbox, so that the bipartisan business of gutting entitlement programs can recommence. Next stop: Grand…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Common again…
08 Oct 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Making perpetual war, Disposable killing machines