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  • Pascal Robert
    Mario Cuomo: Governor of Mass Incarceration
    14 Jan 2015
    by Pascal Robert Mario Cuomo, mourned as a quintessential liberal, was first and foremost a champion builder of prisons. Mass incarceration “was not simply an agenda of the evil Republicans, but also the imperative of bleeding heart liberals like Mario Cuomo, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden.”
  • by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
    Herr come Count Ghouliani
    15 Jan 2015
    by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner “Step right up, Get your 9-11 shirts and caps 9-11 speeches, photos, maps Controlled demolition DVDs Why, I even sell 9-11 PhDs
  • by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
    The Charlie Hebdo White Power Rally in Paris: A Celebration of Western Hypocrisy
    15 Jan 2015
    By BAR editor and correspondent Ajamu Baraka As leaders of the Russia, China, and Western powers and their client states like Israel, all of whom persecute and lock up their own journalists, celebrated the protection of hate-speech cartoonists in France, the real deal as always was not freedom of…
  • by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
    Je Suis Who? The Obama Administration’s Selective Grief and Mourning
    15 Jan 2015
    by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo In the Obama administration’s hierarchy of worthy victims, unarmed Blacks slain by U.S. police rank far below French cartoonists. “When will politicians like President Obama or Attorney General Eric Holder condemn the murders of unarmed black…
  • by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
    Freedom Rider: Charlie Hebdo: “Je Suis White People"
    15 Jan 2015
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Millions of citizens of one of the bloodiest empires known to man – the French colonial state – this weekend pretended to be the most enlightened, yet maligned, people on earth. “The convenient selective amnesia of the French people is as…
  • by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
    A Real Socialist Party for South Africa?
    15 Jan 2015
    by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The rich Black capitalists of South Africa’s ruling party and their counterfeit communist partners will soon have to confront real socialists. The nation’s biggest union “is pressing ahead with a conference on creating a united front and, possibly, a political…
  • Dr. Johnny E. Williams
    Global Interlocking Oppressions from #Ferguson2Palestine
    15 Jan 2015
    by Dr. Johnny E. Williams Thanks to President Obama’s failures to defend Black rights and dignity, “black folks have taken to the streets because, for the first time since the modern civil rights era, we truly understand that ‘we are the ones we have been waiting for’ to bring about permanent…
  • by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
    Why Are We Afraid of Naming and Confronting Capitalism?
    15 Jan 2015
    by Ajamu Nangwaya Lots of “leftists,” “progressives” and even folks that call themselves socialists refuse to undertake a direct assault on the capitalist system, limiting themselves to a narrower critique of “crony,” or “unfettered” capitalism – or, simply, “greedy rich people.” Which just goes to…
  • by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
    Where the #BlackLivesMatterMovement, Cuba, and the DPRK collide: Self-Determination and the Liberation Agenda
    15 Jan 2015
    by Danny Haiphong The new year portends great possibilities of change. “The #BlackLivesMatter movement is a spark that, with continued organization, has the potential to revive revolutionary political thought and action in the US for the first time in decades.” On the international scene, “the…
  • Solomon Comissiong
    The Moment of Truth: African Americans’ Nonsensical  Support for Barack Obama
    21 Jan 2015
    by Solomon Comissiong  After January, 2017, “the delusional fantasy will be over for most African/black people in this country.” What will Black folks have to show for their near-absolute loyalty to Barack Obama? Nothing more than, maybe, a historically revisionist t-shirt “with Obama’s face…

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