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Elias Amare
Africa’s Cuba: Eritrea Endures 13 Years of Illegal Occupation and Sanctions
15 Apr 2015
by Elias Amare Eritrea, a thoroughly secular nation of six million people that won its independence from much larger Ethiopia, has been subjected to withering sanctions imposed at the behest of the United States. The U.S. and Ethiopia make the ludicrous claim that Eritrea has aided the Islamic…
Raul Castro
“Our America”: Cuban Leader’s Speech to the Summit of the Americas
15 Apr 2015
by Raul Castro “Why can we not seek together the necessary resources to provide the hemisphere with schools, hospitals, employment, and to advance in the eradication of poverty?”
Chris Hedges
Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons
15 Apr 2015
by Chris Hedges A coalition of organizations led by the Interfaith Prison Coalition has concluded that the only way to roll back the monstrous U.S. prison gulag is to boycott the corporations that profit from mass incarceration. “Since profit is the only language the involved corporations know how…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Imperialism's Policy of Mass Murder and the Black Panther Party's Analysis of Survival
15 Apr 2015
by Danny Haiphong The Black Panther Party was concerned with community development and sustenance as well as self-defense – a legacy that should be explored by today’s activists. “Community programs, independent of the non-profit industrial complex and armed with political education, must be a…
Heidi Boghosian and Johanna Fernandez
A Slow Death for Mumia Abu-Jamal and Thousands of Prisoners in America
15 Apr 2015
by Heidi Boghosian and Johanna Fernandez Political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal nearly died – and remains in grave danger – from a diabetic condition that the Pennsylvania prison system failed to diagnose in his decades behind bars. He is not alone. “The Bureau of Justice reported some 40% of prisoners…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Walter Scott, the Million Moms March and Stop Mass Incarceration: A Call to Resistance
15 Apr 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The drumbeat of protest continues – as do the murderous predations of the police. “Capitalist America is dependent on these paid killers to maintain power, social order and white supremacy which forces the Black community to accept low wage…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Cuba, Iran and American Lies
15 Apr 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley U.S. policies that were once thought to be written in stone have crumbled, over the years, in the face of the intended victims’ resistance. Vietnam triumphed, despite three million dead. Cuba has held out against empire for more than half a…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black People Must Police Themselves
16 Apr 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When police murder Black people on the streets of U.S. cities, they do not think they are behaving like “rogue” cops or “bad apples.” Rather, most of them believe – and are encouraged in believing – that they are protecting and serving their communities. The…
Solomon Comissiong
The United States Empire: Murdering People of Color Domestically and Abroad
22 Apr 2015
by Solomon Comissiong Dr. Martin Luther King said the U.S. is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” and his is words still hold true, today. “Complicity, complacency and pervasive apathy among the U.S. public allows these crimes to go on in perpetuity.”
Justin Podur
The Filimbi Affair and the #Telema Congolese “Rise Up”
22 Apr 2015
by Justin Podur The DR Congo’s people have suffered genocidal losses from both foreign and internal tormentors. Yet, the youth persevere in their fight prevent President Kabila from illegally extending his term in power. Scores of young people have been murdered and disappeared by police in service…