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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
MOVIE REVIEW: The 3 Big Lies in the 'Won’t Back Down' Movie...
26 Sep 2012
by Julie Woestehoff The alleged “documentary,” Won't Back Down, universally praised in corporate media as the true-to-life inspiring story of big-city parents fighting bad teachers, worse unions and failed, unresponsive public schools is pure right-wing propaganda. Financed by the same right-…
Abdi Ali Diriye
Is AFRICOM Preparing for Another “Humanitarian” Military Intervention?
07 Nov 2012
by Abdi Ali Diriye The U.S. Africa Command bills itself as a force for “humanitarian” intervention in Africa – but the only humans it serves are outside the continent. “The US has recently pushed itself into Libya, Uganda, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere, and now has its eyes set on Mali…
Roberto Lovato
"Celebrating Hispanic Heritage" is Latino For "No Democrat Is Safe"
17 Sep 2014
by Roberto Lovato Candidate Barack Obama promised Latino voters an accessible road to citizenship for the undocumented. He has delivered 2 million deportations, and with his Latino enablers, nearly as many excuses. Will Hispanic Heritage Month be the time to call out the Latino political class for…
Paul Street
And Then Came Sharpton: Helping Keep Blacks in Their Place
17 Sep 2014
by Paul Street Al Sharpton polluted the air of Ferguson, Missouri, on a mission to restore peace and tranquility, i.e., the racist order. He castigated Blacks for indulging in self-pity, “as if engaging in days and nights of street battle with the forces of white supremacist order and marching in…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Theodore Roosevelt and American Racism
17 Sep 2014
By BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley As a settler state built with stolen labor on stolen land, the US has found it necessary to invent a fake history sanitizing and justifying its genocidal wars of conquest and empire. The currently airing PBS series Roosevelts: an Intimate…
Seth Sandronsky
Cities of Opportunity? When Walmart and a Mayor Meet
17 Sep 2014
by Seth Sandronsky The Black mayor of Sacramento, California, claims he runs an Opportunity City. But Kevin Johnson solicits big dollars from Wal-Mart, the anti-union megacorp, which is also a sponsor of his wife, Michelle Rhee, the fire-breathing hit-woman for school privatization. Opportunities…
FikreJesus Amahazion
Ethiopia: Desalegn’s distraction?
17 Sep 2014
by FikreJesus Amahazion Ethiopian strongman Hailemariam Desalegn, like the late dictator (and darling of Washington) Meles Zenawi before him, threatens to overthrow the government of neighboring Eritrea. The regime in Addis Ababa has plenty of reasons to divert attention from its internal problems…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why Our Black Political Class is Paralyzed and Silent on Gaza Massacres and Israeli Apartheid
23 Jul 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon How did the NAACP wrap up its national conference this weekend without saying a mumbling word about the genocidal bombing of Gaza? Why did Moral Monday's Rev. Barber appear on HBO's Real Time with notorious Islamaphobe Bill Maher and not speak to the morality…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Climate Change – Point of No Return
06 Aug 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Russian Arctic belches deadly methane as global warming pushes the biosphere beyond the tipping point. We have a choice: revolution or extinction. “The profit motive must be eliminated in favor of managed economies that limit growth, fairly…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Cowardly, Hypocritical, Subservient Congressional Black Caucus Endorses Israeli Apartheid and Current War Crimes in Gaza
31 Jul 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Only 2 of over 40 Congressional Black Caucus members voted against legitimizing the 2009 Israeli massacre of 1400 mostly civilians in Gaza, with seven CBC members abstaining. Last week, with the Gaza death toll climbing toward 1,000 not a single CBC member…