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Horace G. Campbell
South Sudan: Peace, Democracy and Reconstruction Instead of War
15 Jan 2014
by Horace G. Campbell The dissolution of the South Sudanese military and government into rival factions puts the future of the world’s newest country in question. We must ask “whether this scenario had been planned by the forward planners in Washington who felt that they had not profited enough…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Burglary and COINTELPRO
15 Jan 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Forty three years ago, a group of brave activists clandestinely liberated documents from an FBI office that proved the existence of COINTELPRO, the government program to destroy the Freedom Movement. A new book recounts how most of the media…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Moral Monday A Branding Exercise Blaming Republicans for Stuff Democrats Helped Them Do
15 Jan 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Is Moral Monday “sweeping the nation”? Is it the beginning of a new movement, or the revival of an old one? Or is it a sad, cynical and partisan attempt at renewing the brand of the black political class as fighters for justice and representatives of the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Obama-Paul Scam Zones
15 Jan 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama and his Republican friends agree that low-tax, low-wage, deregulated zones are the anti-poverty program for the 21st century. Both parties are engaged in a race to the bottom. Rand Paul, “the free market barbarian from Kentucky, dispenses his poison…
Bill Quigley
Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich and Corporations
14 Jan 2014
by Bill Quigley All told, pubic subsidies and props to the wealthiest Americans total in the trillions of dollars. Federal, state and local governments have become profit centers for corporations. “Each major piece of legislation contains new welfare for the rich and corporations.
Norman Richmond
Toronto And The Cultural Boycott Of South Africa
14 Jan 2014
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali Once upon a time, Africans from across the Diaspora and their allies united in a movement to abolish apartheid in South Africa. Toronto was a focal point of this movement.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
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14 Jan 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Still the syn-tactical surgeon With precision pen, atomic tenor, Suturing my severed tongue
Anthony Monteiro
Amiri Baraka Has Died: Long Live Baraka
15 Jan 2014
by Anthony Monteiro To truly honor Amiri Baraka, one must examine his travels, the political journeys he undertook in search of paths to self-determination for his people and all humanity. He sought a liberatory synthesis of culture and politics. “We need a Cultural Revolution in the US and…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Con-yay Wez
21 Jan 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner He go Wes’ You stay Eas’
Gregory Elich
A Call for Justice - Free the Cuban 5: An Interview with Netfa Freeman
21 Jan 2014
by Gregory Elich Marked as spies by the U.S. corporate media, the Cuban 5 are actually heroes in the fight against imperial terror. “U.S. official policy has been to wage a multifaceted and protracted war against Cuba and its people, which includes all forms of economic and political sabotage to…