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Margaret Flowers
Beyond the Spin, Some Facts About the Affordable Care Act
15 Oct 2013
by Margaret Flowers, MD President Obama’s market-based health care plan got off to a very shaky start, but the entire developed world already knows that private markets cannot deliver quality health care for all. “A single payer health system, also called Medicare for all, would both resolve the…
Kevin Berends
The EPA's Golden Fleecing: How the Agency Crushes Dissent
15 Oct 2013
by Kevin Berends At the Environmental Protection Agency, protection of the hierarchy is the prime directive and whistleblowing is the cardinal sin. Dissenters risk loss of livelihood, reputation, freedom and health. Take a walk through the corridors of a racist, corporate-dominated government…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obamacare VS Single Payer – Top 10 Things the ACA Gave Us VS the Top 10 We Gave Up
17 Oct 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most things have two prices --- the price you pay outright, and the opportunity cost, the negative value of what you gave up in order to do what you did. Were the “opportunity costs of the Affordable Care Act, the options we threw away to get it, actually worth…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Reparations Applications
22 Oct 2013
by Raymond Nat Turner Be needin’ 21st Century Socialist solutions
Solomon Comissiong
The United States of War: An Addiction to Imperialism
22 Oct 2013
by Solomon Comissiong The U.S. is Number One is weapons of war and domestic civilian gun deaths – and very little else. Historically, peace has not been a priority for the United States, which has waged war every decade since 1776. “The people must demand an end to war, not because it costs…
Tom Stephens
Don’t Let Jones Day Sell Out Detroit!: Rejecting Kevyn Orr’s Dickensian Vision for Our City
23 Oct 2013
by Tom Stephens The bankruptcy that Detroit’s dictatorial Emergency Financial Manager has in mind would “put the whole city in hock to Barclays so they can pay off Bank of America and its bankster cohorts.” The scheme goes before judge, this week, in a trial that could set the precedent for…
Jemima Pierre
Blacks & Drones
23 Oct 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Jemima Pierre Two organizations that give qualified support to U.S. adventures abroad, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have issued reports critical of civilian deaths by American drone strikes. However, U.S. foreign policy is rooted in domestic practice. “U…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Forgiving White People
23 Oct 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Too much forgiveness is an unhealthy thing. It allows the excessively forgiven parties to believe that they can do no wrong. Of course, there have been times when Negroes had little choice but to forgive white people – or pretend to forgive – or…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Remember the Grenada Invasion
23 Oct 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. pounced on the island nation of Grenada like an “elephant on a flea,” 30 years ago, to wipe out the remnants of a revolution. Adding insult to injury (and violation of international law), the U.S. pretended that Grenadians didn’t fight back. Instead, “for…
Todd Steven Burroughs
Ellis Haizlip and “SOUL!”: The Day the Blues People Created and Shaped “Black Power Public Television”
23 Oct 2013
by Todd Steven Burroughs Once upon a time, from 1968 to 1973, there was a public television show called “Soul!” that had the budget and the courage to present 360 degrees of “uncensored, undiluted Blackness.” A recent “Soul! Summit” explored ways to recreate a media miracle, brought forth by…