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by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
U.S. Discrimination Penalty Bill is $1 Billion and Counting: We've Got Their Number
10 Jun 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The U.S. would rather pay victims $1 billion in settlements, than root out racism in the federal government. That’s the first of what will be many revelations to ExposeFacts.org, “an electronic alternative for whistleblowers to disclose…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Working Families Party Betrayal
11 Jun 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley As the Democrats bear steadily rightward, their so-called “progressive” camp followers do likewise. In New York, the Working Families Party endorses businessman’s champion Andrew Cuomo and, in Chicago, an SEIU local donates $25,000 of the…
Mike LaSusa
Race, Class and the World Cup in Brazil
10 Jun 2014
by Mike LaSusa The Brazilian government and big business wanted the World Cup very badly. But the people wanted better public services – especially the majority that identify as non-white. “Government studies have shown that people who identify as black or brown make incomes that are less than…
Horace G. Campbell
The Menace of Boko Haram and Fundamentalism in Nigeria
10 Jun 2014
by Horace G. Campbell The hardline military approach to Boko Haram by the Nigerian government is inadequate. Boko Haram's challenge has economic, political and social dimensions that government ignores to the detriment of Nigerians. All progressive forces will now have to wade in to oppose both…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The White Right’s Impunity
11 Jun 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If a thousand armed Blacks had gathered in one place, pointing rifles at federal officers, and two of them later cold-bloodedly assassinated policemen, the federal response would touch every Black neighborhood in America. But the armed white Right gets a pass.…
John Oliver
HBO's John Oliver Explains Obama FCC's Internet "Fast Lanes"
10 Jun 2014
HBO's John Oliver Explains Obama FCC's Internet "Fast Lanes" VS Net Neutrality ;
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: America’s War Crime in Iraq
18 Jun 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley For the people of the Middle East, the American war never ended; it continued under the brutal, U.S.-backed jihadists who ravaged Syria, and have struck at Iraq with a vengeance. In the United States, George Bush gets the blame for the Iraq War…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Making the Case for an Election Boycott: Why the Left Should Refrain from US Imperialism's Electoral Charade
17 Jun 2014
by Danny Haiphong The left should not participate in, “and thus provide consent for, the rule of imperialism every four years.” Say “No” to the charade. “Barack Obama's two-term presidency has been a lesson for the entire left that voting for a Wall Street politician within the…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
We've Got Their Number: U.S. Discrimination Penalty Bill is $1 Billion and Counting - Part Two
17 Jun 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Rather than crack down on discrimination and illegal retaliation, the U.S. government spends megabucks to silence complaints. “Upwards of $1 billion have been doled out by federal agencies in settlement and judgment costs for discrimination…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
ISIS Iraq Offensive: Can the Empire Reassert Control of the Jihadists?
18 Jun 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “How can the U.S. bomb ISIS jihadists in Iraq and not bomb them in Syria?” The contradictions of the West’s reliance on Muslim fundamentalist jihadis to do their dirty work have become acute with the ISIS blitzkrieg in Iraq. Despite its vast weaponry, the U.S.…