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Bill Quigley
Why is Cornel West the only black face recognizable to US TV audiences with the integrity to speak against Israeli apartheid?
15 Aug 2014
Why is Cornel West the only black face recognizable to US TV audiences with the integrity to speak against Israeli apartheid & our role in sustaining it? While the Congressional Black Caucus was co-signing Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, Dr. Cornel West spoke against Israeli apartheid.…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Road to Ferguson and the Necessity of Anti-Imperialist Spirit
27 Aug 2014
by Danny Haiphong There’s a simple reason why the police that brutalize Blacks on the streets of the America look and behave much like U.S. occupation troops abroad: it’s all part of the same global imperial mission. The so-called “’War on Drugs’ was a dual war on the Black community and the…
The Real News Network
Ferguson Demands a New Black Politics
04 Sep 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If Ferguson represents a new beginning for Black movement politics, then any electoral efforts must aim to “create governments whose promise to the people is to cease cooperating with the machinery that enforces the New Jim Crow.” It emphatically does not mean the…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
No FEAR Coalition Rallies At Justice Department for Mike Brown and Against Police Brutality and Militarization
27 Aug 2014
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, No FEAR Coalition A host of organizations will gather in front of the U.S. Justice Department building, in Washington, to tell Attorney General Eric Holder “the militarized presence in Ferguson must be withdrawn immediately. Further, the national militarization of police…
Colin Jenkins
Undercover in White America: Why Black Rage is Conscious, Justified, and Long Overdue
27 Aug 2014
by Colin Jenkins The logic of Black rebellion is lost on much of the privileged white population and the corporate media, which perceive Black rage as irrational. However, the Black response to white supremacy “is not ‘senseless’ or ‘visceral’; it is the product of a life full of experiences that…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Ferguson – Past is Prologue
27 Aug 2014
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III No matter how you slice and dice the deliberately sparse data, the conclusion is inescapable: “Poor people of color are the enemy that white law enforcement officials must neutralize.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ferguson Versus the Counter-Insurgency State
26 Aug 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If the people of Ferguson, Missouri, had remained “calm” in the police killing of Michael Brown, the nation would not be discussing the “militarization” of the police forces. “All the nation’s police departments are following the same drill, with the same tools and…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
No Rights that a White Man is Bound to Respect: The Occupation and Ethnic Cleansing of Africa-America
26 Aug 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends "The illusion that white supremacy is dead and African-Americans integrated into US society is only sustained during periods of détente.” The people of Ferguson are saying NO to détente with white supremacy.
Thomas C. Mountain
The Real “Dirty Wars” in the Horn of Africa
26 Aug 2014
by Thomas C. Mountain While western progressives kept track of Obama’s drone wars around the world, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Somalis starved to death in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, as a consequence of state policy. The Ethiopian prime minister who engineered the genocide-by-famine “was…
Ajamu Nangwaya
“Organization is the Weapon of the Oppressed”: Ferguson, Mobilization and Organizing the Resistance!
26 Aug 2014
by Ajamu Nangwaya Event mobilizations may catch media attention, but history’s big footprints are left by large numbers of organized people moving in the same direction. “Our solidarity in action will emerge from us getting together in groups with a program of liberation.”