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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
U.S. Prepares to Gas Russia Into Submission
20 Mar 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S., now number one in oil and gas, is preparing to destroy Russia’s economy. “Washington will move to crush, or at least seriously disrupt, Russia under its ‘sanctions as war by other means’ machine, by targeting its energy exports, while simultaneously…
Lemah R. Bonnick
Reinstate Dr Anthony Monteiro And Reclaim Our Spirit of Resistance
19 Mar 2014
by Lemah R. Bonnick The American Studies project cannot “continue without an energetic scholarship that aims to inform a commitment to social justice,” says the author, a Black educator teaching in London. Dr. Anthony Monteiro’s battle for truth in Black scholarship reminds us that every generation…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Beyonce: Poster Woman for Black Misleadership Class Collaboration with Imperialism
18 Mar 2014
by Danny Haiphong The Black Misleadership Class comes in all genders, and cares only for itself. Beyonce has forged a putrid class alliance with Condoleezza Rice, “a war criminal responsible for the deaths of millions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world.” Beyonce is a bipartisan suck-up to…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Long Dong Silver Laid the Foundation for Drone Man
18 Mar 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner “Negroz ain’t known for checkin’ facts Like Clinton’s sax, and other acts”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Kwadir Felton and Cory Booker
19 Mar 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Kwadir Felton, one of Sen. Cory Booker’s constituents, faces 30 years in prison for allegedly assaulting the Jersey City police who shot and blinded him. But Felton can expect no constituent services from Booker. Black people demand next to…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Striking GA Prisoners Name Names, Allege Sexual Abuse, Ongoing Threats, Maltreatment by Staff
20 Mar 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Not quite a month ago, I wrote that we at Black Agenda Report had received word of a new self-organized hunger strike among prisoners in Georgia's notorious Diagnostic & Classification Prison at Jackson, the same place where Troy Davis was murdered by the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: America’s Aggressions Rewarded
26 Mar 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States is a military superpower in economic decline. Consequently, its foreign policy resembles that of the mafia extortionist who “offers protection when it is in fact the only threat in the neighborhood.” Old bullies do not fade…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Make me do it…
25 Mar 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Make me do it, one Hellfire Missile each— They’ll all be in a better place: with you Lord, make me do it! Make me do it!
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Why We Are REALLY Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex In the Age of Neo-liberal Monopoly Capitalism
25 Mar 2014
by Danny Haiphong The ruling class deploys ostensible do-gooders as agents of social destruction and control. “Non-profits have played a large role in channeling revolutionaries into comfortable careers that promote liberalism and collaboration with monopoly capital.” Although…
Colin Jenkins
Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality
25 Mar 2014
by Colin Jenkins The endemic violence of a society born of genocide, slavery, misogyny and ruthless capitalism is institutionalized in modern American structures. “The equipment and machinery regularly utilized by local police forces across the US now mimics that of a war zone,” while the “violence…