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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Code Black Alert: The Execution of John Crawford III – Killer Cops are Back on the Street
01 Oct 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo In 21st century America, cops kill Black people with both impunity and sickening regularity. A Green County, Ohio, grand jury recently issued a Kill-a-Black-Man-for-Free card to the officers who shot 22-year-old John Crawford III without…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Good Riddance to Eric Holder
01 Oct 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Blacks and very fuzzy liberals magnify outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder’s modest, mainly verbal, accomplishments while apologizing for his monstrous crimes against civilization and the rule of law. “The only thing more noteworthy than the…
Benjamin Woods
South Africa’s Unfinished Revolution
01 Oct 2014
A Review by Benjamin Woods Nelson Mandela’s rise South Africa’s presidency did not constitute a revolution, but simply a transition to nominal Black electoral political power. A new party promises to make good on the promises of the Freedom Charter, through socialism. “Even the red uniform of the…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Eric Holder: Like the Rest of the Black Political Class – Powerful But Powerless When It Comes to Black Interests
01 Oct 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The fulsome praise heaped upon Eric Holder at the announcement of his impending resignation is fake history. Some of it exposes the contradiction between the black political class's alleged mission to represent the black masses and its actual practice which is…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Eric Holder’s Damnable Legacy: Impunity for the Rich and the Death of Due Process
01 Oct 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Eric Holder and his boss have done incalculable damage to the life prospects of Black people.” Nevertheless, African Americans are eager to give high marks to a man who has demolished due process and the rule of law and given the white filthy rich impunity from…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Hate Speech
01 Oct 2014
My Wise Country Cousin on Hate Speech: by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner The Commander-in-Chief’s *Annual NASA Umph, umph, umph, de hate speech de Commanduh preach Soun’ lak, feel lak finguh nails on a chalkbowd, dat screech ‘Bout toxic as anything Dr Gobbuls an’ ol’ Striker teach—…
David Bacon
Rocketship to Profits: The Super-Rich Shape Education in Their Own Image
08 Oct 2014
by David Bacon The mega-profiteers of Silicon Valley market a privatized brand of education that “is predicated on paying minimal attention to anything but math and literacy, and even those subjects are taught by inexperienced teachers carrying out data-driven lesson plans relentlessly focused on…
Thomas C. Mountain
Eritrea: Doing Mining Right in Africa
08 Oct 2014
by Thomas C. Mountain Tiny Eritrea, which won a long war of independence from Ethiopia, has incurred Washington’s wrath because of its refusal to become trapped in western military and financial entanglements. Among the slanders is that Eritrea uses slave labor in its gold mines. The author asked…
Peter Erlinder
Kagame, the War Criminal: BBC Documentary Questions Popular Narrative of Rwanda's Calamity
08 Oct 2014
by Peter Erlinder Rwanda's Untold Story Documentary from RDI-Rwanda Rwiza on Vimeo. The United States and Britain have for 20 years covered up the true story of the genocide in Rwanda. Finally, a BBC documentary shows how Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame assassinated two Presidents and massacred…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Strangling the Axis of Resistance: Corporate Media Bashes Venezuela’s Maduro to get to Syria
08 Oct 2014
by Danny Haiphong The U.S. corporate press has stepped up its attacks on Venezuela, which is due to take a seat on the UN Security Council, next year. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro opposes the U.S. proxy war against Syria, insisting that only an alliance that respects Syria and Iraq “can…