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Danny Pforte
We Must Open Our Eyes to America’s Political Prisoners
08 Oct 2013
by Danny Pforte The United States, with by far the largest prison population in the world, denies that it holds even one person for political reasons. In reality, the very size and ferocity of the American Gulag sends a clear political message to all: “challenging the US imperial order, or merely…
Thomas C. Mountain
Ethiopia’s 10 Million Human Tsunami
08 Oct 2013
by Thomas C. Mountain Most of the millions of Ethiopians forced into the global limbo of displacement are Oromo or ethnic Somali from the Ogaden, victims of the Ethiopian regime’s genocidal policies. During the recent devastating drought, “all of Oromia and the Ogaden affected by this catastrophe…
Peter Hudson
Haiti, Antihaitianismo, and the Dominican Republic
08 Oct 2013
by Peter Hudson A Dominican Republic court has moved to strip as many as a quarter million Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship rights. The ruling “formalizes a process of exclusion, racism, and harassment that had already construed Dominicans of Haitian descent as second-class…
Veli
The Radicalization of Ray Richardson: Suspicion Still Surrounds Death of Black Activist TV Producer
08 Oct 2013
by Jeffrey B. Perry and Charles V. Richardson In January, 1971, the young producer of Boston public television’s groundbreaking program Say Brother, was found dead in a Mexican resort, along with his fiancé. Ray Richardson was the grandson of Harlem radical Hubert Harrison. The cause was listed as…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Wall Street Bets a Quadrillion of Everybody Else’s Money
09 Oct 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Americans are driven to panic at the prospect of a technical federal default, later this month – an event that could cost the public treasury billions. But Wall Street’s quadrillion dollar gambling obsession actually does threaten to bring down the whole system. “…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Bi-Partisan Disappearance of Race and Class
09 Oct 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The ruling elites in both parties are bent on reducing the power and living standards of labor and increasing the dominance of Wall Street. Pervasive racism makes their job that much easier. “We are not going to be able to reverse the four-decade-long assault on the working class…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Aaron Alexis, Miriam Carey and John Constantino
09 Oct 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The recent, strange and very public deaths of three Black people in the nation’s capital have spawned silly and useless conspiracy theories. The real conspiracies against African Americans are writ much larger: the forced bankruptcy of Detroit,…
Veli
Steve Biko and the Quest for Black Power Today
15 Oct 2013
by Veli Next April 27 marks the 20th anniversary of the first majority rule elections in South Africa. Many will be wondering what all the celebration is about, and what martyred Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko’s guidance would be. “We must locate Biko in the struggle against the state under…
Colin Jenkins
Confronting Columbus: Revisionism Versus Reality
15 Oct 2013
by Colin Jenkins The year 1492 marks the beginning of by far the greatest genocide in human history, and the inauguration of a global system of slavery. “The perpetrators of these crimes against humanity are magically transformed from conquerors to ‘explorers,’ from murderers to ‘adventurers,’ and…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on the Shutdown
15 Oct 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner For “po an’ wurkin’ folk,” the real shutdown begins when the two corporate parties come together for the Grand Bargain Feast.