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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Good, Bad Deal for Iran
27 Nov 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. acts as if its being magnanimous in coming to a nuclear agreement with Iran, but Washington offered Iran “only $7 billion in sanctions relief when American and European banks still hold more than $100 billion in assets.” President Obama…
The Public Archive
Radical Black Reading: Summer 2014
22 Jul 2014
by The Public Archive For your Summer edification: the works of “Black writers, scholars, artists, and activists” explore how “the policies of the Israel towards the Palestinian people mirror the historic regimes of apartheid in South Africa and Jim Crow in the United States.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Migrant Crisis and the Dead-end of US imperialism
22 Jul 2014
by Danny Haiphong “Deporter-in-Chief” Obama’s policies towards Latin American immigrants are incontrovertible proof that both major parties serve the same neoliberal master. Neither party tells the truth about the migration crisis: “US imperialism's dual military and economic assault in the…
Paul Street
Age of Liberty, Age of Slavery
23 Jul 2014
by Paul Street The “Age of Liberty” for whites was an age of expanding slavery and genocide for the New World’s Black and Native American victims. “Of the known 10,148,288 Africans put on slave ships bound for the Americas between 1514 and 1866 (of a total historians estimate to be at least 12,500,…
Karen B. Reynolds
Afro-Uruguay: A Brief History
22 Jul 2014
by George Reid Andrews Afro-Uruguayans have contributed to the construction of Uruguay as a consequence of enslavement. They have set up important organisations such as Mundo Afro to lobby the national government to recognise its black minority as an equal member of the national community.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Water, WMD – In Detroit…
22 Jul 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Rich terrorists taking vital chemicals away For these parasites their profits hold sway
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Siege of Detroit: A War of Black Urban Removal
23 Jul 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The “pause” in the draconian Detroit water shut-off is just a lull in “an escalating trajectory of systematically inflicted mass punishment and pain designed to make life in the city unbearable for a huge proportion of the population.” Wall Street has declared war…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Putin in America’s Crosshairs
23 Jul 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Margaret Kimberley Why did 300 people plummet to their deaths over Ukraine? The answer is not in the minutia of one small battlefield, but in the wild and frenzied behavior of the superpower that is intent on global rule. “There would be no BUK missiles in Ukraine, no…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
From Victim to Colonial Settler: Shifting the Paradigm on Israel
30 Jul 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka U.S. and western European popular support for Israeli aggression against Arabs is rooted in racist, colonial notions of “’white man’s burden,’ ‘manifest destiny,’ the ‘doctrine of discovery,’ and ‘American exceptionalism’ – expressions of the arrogant…
Wilmer J. Leon III
The Reaction to Donald Sterling, Double Standards in the Midst of a Racial Hierarchy
30 Apr 2014
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III It seems obvious that the NAACP is willing to give a pass to the vilest bigots in return for a monetary contribution. “Prior to Sterling’s recent comments coming to light, he was scheduled to receive his second NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles chapter…