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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Russia Wins
20 May 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The leaders of the greatest land and people masses in Eurasia are forging a military, economic and political alliance that will fundamentally alter the world in both the near and long term. Meanwhile, the U.S. remains the bully that many fear,…
The Real News Network
Glen Ford on the Real News Network: Wary Cuba Calls For Lifting the Embargo
20 May 2015
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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama, Master of Diversion, Proposes Bogus Reforms of Militarized Police
21 May 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama’s “ban” on certain military hardware and gear is both fraudulent and a diversion from the real issue: the oppressive mission of the police in Black America. The cops who killed Michael Brown and Freddie Gray and countless others “weren’t wearing…
Solomon Comissiong
The American Liberal vs. The Revolutionary: Exposing the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
27 May 2015
by Solomon Comissiong Liberals, despite their protestations, remain wedded to U.S. imperial rule in the world. They wish only that it morph into a kinder, gentler imperialism. A Revolutionary knows that the only way change will ultimately come is by way of a sustained social revolution, one that…
Bill Quigley
2015 Memorial Day: Praying for Peace While Waging Permanent War?
27 May 2015
by Bill Quigley Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 declaration that the U.S. was the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” remains true, today. “We must commit ourselves and organize others to a true revolution of values and confront the corporations and politicians who continue to…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Susan Rice and Museveni Shake Hands on Crimes in Central Africa
27 May 2015
by Ann Garrison, with Milton Allimadi The U.S. project to make South Sudan an independent country has descended into catastrophe and mass death. Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, Washington’s hit man in the region, intervened in the South Sudanese civil war. “Now what we have in South Sudan is a conflict…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Gentrification and the Death of Black Communities
27 May 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Gentrification – the displacement of Black and brown urban residents by more affluent whites – is a function of the same forces that emptied the cities of much of their white populations, generations ago: the movement of capital. Capital wants…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Holder’s Legacy: Corporations Too Big to Jail, Mass Incarceration, Gentrification and Protection of Killer Cops
27 May 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The first Black U.S. Attorney General, like the president who appointed him, entered office with high expectations among Black folks. “We now know what to expect from the Obama administration – nothing.” After years of betrayal, “the families…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Cops Continued “Coon Huntin’” in Cleveland Despite 2004 Federal Consent Decree
27 May 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford No sooner had a Cleveland judge acquitted the only cop charged in the “mass firing squad execution” of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, than the Feds announced their second consent decree with the city in recent years. “It appears the Justice Department’s role…
Thomas C. Mountain
Obama’s Failed State Policy in Africa
03 Jun 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain President Obama’s is a state-destroyer, especially in Africa. Chaos, misery and failed states are his legacy on the continent. Obama’s fatal touch causes “already failing societies to begin to disintegrate, filling our screens with ever more scenes of death and destruction.”…