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by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Let Them Eat Symbols: Obama’s Plan for the Long-Term Unemployed
05 Feb 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka A deep social crisis is upon us, and the rulers know it – their system created it. “Obama’s feel good rhetoric and his Administration’s minimalist program of 'promise zones,' corporate funded jobs programs that don’t actually employ anyone and…
Piero Gleijeses
Letter to Obama: America’s Selective Memory and the Cuban Five
05 Feb 2014
by Piero Gleijeses Washington’s selective memory of Cuba’s role in the world – and America’s own sordid past and present – prevents its leaders from seeing reality clearly. But President Obama witnessed first hand that Africa remembers who its friends are. “While the Cubans were fighting for the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
The Unemployment Question(s)
04 Feb 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Livin’ on nothin’, while hunger works full time No wonder, some brothers stumble into crime.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Operation Afro-Dilution”: Michigan’s Plan to Flood Detroit with Upscale Immigrants
06 Feb 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It is the general consensus among white people that Detroit’s problem is, too many Blacks. Michigan’s governor has a solution: flood the city with upscale green card holders. “An infusion of global migrants would enable Detroit’s corporate masters to market the…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Absurdity of Post-Racial Theory in Racist America
11 Feb 2014
by Danny Haiphong The very suggestion that the U.S. has entered a “post-racial” era, represents a racist assault. “The Commander in Chief and Attorney General may not have white skin, but their policies in relation to mass imprisonment and the economy have exceeded expectations for the white…
Ajamu Nangwaya
We Have an Anti-imperialist Obligation to the People of Haiti
11 Feb 2014
by Ajamu Nangwaya The arc of justice is made to bend through solidarity with the oppressed. Solidarity with Haiti means fighting for an end to “the cycle of Western military interventions, coups and/or propping up of anti-democratic, anti-people regimes; and an end to the local elite’s and foreign…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Boycott America, Not Russia
12 Feb 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama’s personal boycott of the Winter Olympics is the height of hypocrisy. Washington provides arms, aid and diplomatic protection to some of the most homophobic regimes on earth. “There are at least ten nations considered American…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
12th Man
11 Feb 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Where’s The 12th Man— All 137.6 decibels— For Mumia and Maroon?
Tom Stephens
Gangster Corporate Contract for Takeover of Detroit
12 Feb 2014
by Thomas Stephens Wall Street, corporate Republicans and Democrats and the lawyers that serve them have structured a contract that guarantees “a realigned, restructured, pillaged, decapitated and misruled” Detroit. The document, newly revealed in these pages, is a template for subjugation of urban…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Freedom Charter is Key to New Struggle for South Africa
13 Feb 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Marikana was the great shock to the national consciousness, and Mandela’s death brought a final end to the pretense of social transformation.” In the transition from apartheid, the ruling African National Congress chose Black capitalism and neoliberalism. But,…