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Michelle Renee Matisons and Seth Sandronsky
All Rise: When Class Oppression Sows Democratization
10 Sep 2014
by Michelle Renee Matisons and Seth Sandronsky A people’s movement is stirring. Ferguson sets the bar higher for Black protest, fast food employees engage in civil disobedience, home health care workers come out of the shadows, and “families in Newark, New Jersey, reject the crappy…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: White American Solidarity for the Corporate Plantation
10 Sep 2014
by Danny Haiphong America’s rulers propagate the lie that the United States and its corporations lead the world in selfless generosity. If you believe that, you’ve probably got your head in an ice bucket. In reality, “the rich usually invest the most dollars in things like education…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: NATO Loses Ukraine
10 Sep 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama provokes one world crisis after another, most of which wind up leaving the U.S. weaker and more isolated than before. “The United States and its allies won’t give up the failing strategy because they have no other plan for…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Globalization Advocates Were Wrong: The US-NATO Alliance is the Heart of Imperialism
17 Sep 2014
by Danny Haiphong “Globalism” was a cute term coined as a cover for worldwide corporate expansion and penetration. With the U.S. has the sole superpower, globalism shows its true face: imperialism, a system that “is in permanent crisis and can only be maintained by the war-making…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Naming-and-Shaming the Black Caucus
17 Sep 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Silence implies assent, which is why activists in Washington, DC, will loudly and clearly denounce the Congressional Black Caucus for its collective crimes against Black people, social justice and the cause of world peace. The “Shame on the Congressional Black…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Black Political Class? The Congressional Black Caucus? These Joes Ain't Loyal
17 Sep 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why does the Congressional Black Caucus endorse Israeli apartheid? Why do our black mayors embrace gentrification, our civil rights organizations side with their funders, and our black generals and diplomats orchestrate genocide in Africa? Whoever, whatever…
Gerald A. Perreira
Coalition of Crusaders Join with al Qaeda to Oust Qaddafi and Roll Back Libyan Revolution
23 Mar 2011
The West – the former colonial powers and the United States – have not only coordinated their assault on Libya, but orchestrated the rebellion against Col. Qaddafi from the start, says the author. Qaddafi's claim that al Qaeda is involved is only dismissed by those who fail to understand that “al…
Randy Shields
The Honey Obadger: He Don’t Give a Shit
17 Sep 2013
by Randy Shields “Honey obadger has a silver tongue, really big ears for hearing everything said everywhere in the world, lives (politically) almost exclusively on killing Muslims and blends in well with whatever people want to believe they’re seeing.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Serial School Privatizer "Chainsaw Paul" Vallas Gets Ready For His Next Job
25 Jun 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Neoliberalism holds that all human interactions should to be disciplined and mediated by the market. Paul Vallas is the nation's neoliberal chainsaw man on public education. After savaging public education in Chicago, Philly, New Orleans and Bridgeport, he has…
Ralph Adamo
New Orleans’ Failed Education Experiment: Privatization Runs Amok
29 Aug 2007
by Ralph Adamo Almost as soon as the levees were breached, the predators that infest American business and government structures smelled a new opportunity: to reshape the educational system of New Orleans according to their own diabolical, profit-oriented, non-union, sink or swim…