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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
We Are Cornered: There's No Way Out Without A Fight
25 Aug 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A corporate offensive is rolling down upon us, aimed at wholesale privatization of the public sector. If the Left has learned anything in the last year and a half, it should be that President Obama is Wall Street’s guy, having “delivered the highest return on…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Charges Backward On Health Care
10 Jun 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama, like the little kids that used to appear on Art Linkletter’s TV show, says “the darndest things.” He has discovered that the “root cause” of America’s health care cost problem isn’t the insurance companies, or the drug barons, or the hospital…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Who Prosecutes the Prosecutors?
09 Jul 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley There are many tens of thousands of prisoners unjustly serving sentences “twice as long as any of the Central Park Five victims.” Mass Black incarceration is inseparable from official and societal corruption. Cops and, especially, prosecutors “…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Washington’s Corporate Media and the Imperial War on Korea
08 Jul 2014
by Danny Haiphong There is no limit to the slanders spewed by U.S. corporate media – from so-called journalists to filmmakers to comedians – against North Korea, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. “The racist and inaccurate discourse around the DPRK helps justify the almost…
Bill Quigley
Millions of Soldiers and Veterans in Trouble
08 Jul 2014
by Bill Quigley The most recent crop of veterans is in trouble, especially in terms of joblessness, homelessness and mental health. Is it because vets find it harder to re-enter society, or is the society they are re-entering an increasingly hostile and dysfunctional place?
Abayomi Azikiwe
The Illusion of Foreign Investment Growth? Africa Must Break With the World Capitalist System
08 Jul 2014
by Abayomi Azikiwe African economic growth may be irrelevant, if the fruits of its bounty never reach its people. “If Africa cannot effectively stabilize its own internal situation then no one can honestly say that actual progress is being made which is sustainable.”
Yash Tandon
Rethinking the Role of Global Investment in Africa’s Development
08 Jul 2014
by Yash Tandon So-called development “aid” from corporations and banks is inherently corrupt. Genuine development and independence can only be achieved by breaking as much as possible from the global capitalist web. “At the heart of the contemporary civilizational crisis is the reductionist logic…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Political Prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin in Declining Health, Urgently Needs Medical Care
09 Jul 2014
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Politcal prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin was one of the leading lights of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960s rural Alabama. Wrongfully accused and falsely convicted of murder in the shooting of two Atlanta deputies, he has been buried…
Arlene Eisen
Aftermath of a Venezuela-Style Lynching
08 Jul 2014
by Arlene Eissen The assault of white Venezuelan contra demonstrators on medical student William Muñoz doesn't tell us all we need to know about social cleavage and race in today's Venezuela, but it tells us plenty. Muñoz was apparently profiled a Chavista because of his dark skin, and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
After Years of Abuse, Obama Now Woos Democratic Base
08 Sep 2011
Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Having humiliated and marginalized the core constituencies of the Democratic Party in his first term, Barack Obama calls upon these same groups to give him four more years. For most, it would be difficult to even find the words to refuse. The…