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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama: Putin-Baiter and Preventive Detainer
27 Mar 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama has thrown international law into history’s dustbin, torn up the U.S. Bill of Rights, and is mapping millions for possible future detention. “One court order + one suspect number + three hops = everybody remotely involved in anti-war activity.”
Mark P. Fancher
Africa Beware of Imperialism’s Fatherly Advice
02 Apr 2014
by Mark P. Fancher Washington’s military tentacles daily tighten their grip on Africa, in ever deepening collusion with France. “Allowing the U.S., France and others to essentially take charge of Africa’s militaries creates or maintains an almost childlike dependence on imperialist forces.”
Solomon Comissiong
Escaping the Corporate Hip Hop Plantation: Building a Nation of Revolutionary Emcees
01 Apr 2014
by Solomon Comissiong It’s come-to-meeting time in the world of Hip Hop. “It is imperative that politically conscious and revolutionary minded Emcees of the Golden Era of Hip Hop, and of today, organize a closed-door summit.” Cultural and economic liberation should top the agenda.
Seema Sadanandan
Decriminalizing Small Quantities of Marijuana
01 Apr 2014
by Seema Sadanandan In the nation’s capital, police are now forbidden to cite the smell of marijuana has the basis for a search. “It is the first decriminalization bill in the country to prohibit police from stopping, questioning, and searching people based on the alleged smell of marijuana alone…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Lynch Law: The Root of US imperialism
01 Apr 2014
by Danny Haiphong Domestic U.S. lynch has morphed into imperialist terrorism. “Washington uses a nexus of intelligence and military institutions to lynch the world's people of their lives and resources.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
…Double life
01 Apr 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Accepted a prize The preacher paid his life for
Raúl Capote
Interview with Ex-CIA Collaborator: “The CIA’s Plans in Venezuela Are Far Advanced”
01 Apr 2014
by Raúl Capote U.S. intelligence agencies have long been engaged in their own brand of social engineering, conjuring up “color” revolutions energized by students in targeted countries – with Venezuela currently topping the list. “If you succeed in getting these youngsters to believe that savage…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Left-right White Solidarity? A comment on the New Face of 21st Century Neo-Fascism – Part One
02 Apr 2014
by Ajamu Baraka The U.S.-European “Left’s” tepid – and even supportive – response to NATO’s destabilization of Ukraine reveals the deep workings of white supremacy on the “western” mind. We face the specter of a “left-right convergence” to save the global imperial project. How else to explain…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Imperialism
02 Apr 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberly A dying empire is a dangerous place. “The western capitalists are trying to stave off their own economic collapse by destroying nations who may be strong enough to keep them and their designs at bay, namely Venezuela, Russia, China and Iran.” The…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
U.S. Deploys More Special Forces in Search of Kony, Africa’s Stand-in for Osama bin Laden
02 Apr 2014
by executive editor Glen Ford The latest deployment of U.S. Special Forces aircraft to central Africa is an escalation of an effective U.S. occupation of the continent, via AFRICOM and subservient indigenous armies. “AFRICOM’s mission is to lock the continent in a cage of steel, to imprison it in…