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Christopher Black
Another Round of Imperial Lies on Kagame’s Crimes in Rwanda
21 Jan 2015
by Christopher Black There is no shortage of imperial operatives eager to defend Paul Kagame’s dictatorial Tutsi regime in Rwanda. Kagame’s role in the Rwandan slaughter and the Congo genocide that followed is thoroughly documented in the book, Enduring Lies: The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda…
Pascal Robert
What is the Real Reason Behind Obama’s New Cuba Policy?
21 Jan 2015
by Pascal Robert There’s nothing “enlightened” about President Obama shift in policy on Cuba. Growing U.S. isolation from Latin America has opened opportunities for Washington’s global rivals. Russia has proposed a raft of agreements with Cuba and other Latin countries, and “China has now strongly…
Michelle Renee Matisons
Making Movements Matter
21 Jan 2015
by Michelle Renee Matisons People talk about building mass movements, but which “masses” do they actually intend to mobilize? It’s a difficult, but central, question for serious organizers. “How do we balance the particular (group identity) and the universal (broader agenda) tensions inherent in…
This Is Hell
Police Unions VS the Public, Torture and Mass Incarceration VS Restorative Justice
21 Jan 2015
A radio interview by Chuck Mertz on This is Hell Radio. Flint Taylor, co-founder of the Peoples Law Office in Chicago, who has represented the victims of police and political violence for 45 years explains the role of police unions, public defenders, the problems of supposedly progressive…
Netfa Freeman
Movement Ferguson, Beware the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
21 Jan 2015
by Netfa Freeman A recent, but deeply flawed, article on George Soro’s foundation’s support of some organizations involved in anti-police violence campaigns nevertheless raises important questions about movement dependency on “philanthropic” funding. “No one – particularly those of us working in…
Sara Flounders
Charlie Hebdo, the Free Press and Racism
21 Jan 2015
by Sara Flounders If France is a citadel of freedom of the press, then why does it ban demonstrations against Israel and in support of Palestinians? “Charlie Hebdo is protected because it hardens the population against Muslim people in order to divide the population.” For its service to French…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Kymone Freeman: #DC Ferguson, Poet, Playwright and Guerilla Artist
21 Jan 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo As prime mover at Washington DC’s independent We ACT Radio station, Kymone Freeman wrestles with the burning issues of Black life, daily. “How do we enforce demands? How do we escalate the calls for justice? How do we protect ourselves? Who are…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Jeffrey Sterling: A Black Man and the CIA
22 Jan 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Former New York Times reporter James Risen got most of the coverage in the Obama administration’s latest espionage trial, but the defendant is a Black man. Jeffrey Sterling is not guilty of espionage – none of the defendants in Obama’s cases are…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
State of the Union 2015: Lethal, Predatory, Delusional
22 Jan 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama says things are looking up for America – which is exactly how Wall Street sees it. For the seventh time, Obama assessed the state of the nation from the perspective of a “center-right presidency whose real accomplishment has been to re-inflate the…
Pascal Robert
Why the Post-Trayvon Martin “Talk" Turns Black Kids Into a Pathology
14 Aug 2013
by Pascal Robert Brainwashed Black folks subject their children to the sick ritual of “The Talk,” to instill in them the “the necessity to attenuate their behavior to the expectations of a racist society.” They were wrong before Trayvon Martin’s murder, and they are wrong, today. “We should give…