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by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Social Service Workers and the Grip of Neo-liberal Capitalism Part Two: Privatization and Austerity's Path of Destruction
26 Aug 2014
by Danny Haiphong People who become social workers hope to alleviate the conditions that bring misery to their fellow human beings. They soon discover that the system has other plans. “Capitalists have calculated that permanent crisis and the profit-motive cannot exist…
Bill Quigley
Ten Facts About Police Violence in Ferguson Sunday Night
26 Aug 2014
by Bill Quigley Police provocations against the people are creating a brand new cohort of freedom fighters.
Rosa Clemente
Rosa Clemente: On the Ground In Ferguson MO
26 Aug 2014
by Rosa Alicia Clemente Black Agenda Report is pleased to carry the first on the ground report from Ferguson MO from Rosa Clemente, the 2008 vice-presidential candidate of the Green Party, posted 6AM August 20.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: American Terror Lives On
26 Aug 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley After every police atrocity against Black people, white people react with surprise and ask, What went wrong? The answer lies in the central fact of American life and history: white supremacy. “In the absence of any desire to leave the past…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Liar in a Tan Suit
04 Sep 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama behaves as if he lives in an alternative universe, one in which ISIS and other jihadists in Syria were not armed and funded by the U.S. and its allies, and Russian-speaking Ukrainians did not rise up of their own volition against…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
What Divides Black America?
04 Sep 2014
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The eruption of outrage and protest in Ferguson has shown a spotlight on the out-of-touch attitudes and policies of Black political leaders. “When the Black political elite demand ‘change’ in Ferguson or other subjugated corner of this nation, the horizons for what change…
Jordan Flaherty
Deon Haywood: “Nine years after Katrina, it’s all about the takeover.”
04 Sep 2014
An Interview by Jordan Flaherty The meaning of urban recovery is subject to great debate. If the standard of progress celebrates expulsion of the Black and poor and welcoming of the affluent and white, then New Orleans is “recovering” from Katrina. But, “that would be a white supremacist framework…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Folks are Going Nowhere Until We Discard the Misleadership Class
28 Aug 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The movement in Ferguson has, once again, showed that the Black Misleadership Class acts as the “soft power” for the Mass Black Incarceration State, complimenting the “hard power” of the “world’s most formidable police and prison system.” This perfidious class “…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Ferguson and the Islamic State: Two Sides of Malcolm's American Nightmare
04 Sep 2014
by Danny Haiphong The rulers of the United States are duplicitous and racist in both their foreign and domestic policies. “Just as Washington won't admit its complicity in the occupation of the Black community by local police, it certainty will not and cannot admit its complicity in…
Solomon Comissiong
Perspectives and Concerns of Black Parents
04 Sep 2014
by Solomon Comissiong In addition to its many other failings, the U.S. educational system insults and devalues Black lives by force-feeding reverence for degenerate slave-holding monsters. “It should be considered mental cruelty to brainwash African/black students to revere slave masters like…