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by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Mass Protests Trigger Washington Post Study of Police Killings
03 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The federal government has never gathered meaningful statistics on police killings of civilians. Now the Washington Post has begun an ongoing examination of deaths at the hands of police, in cooperation with two existing web sites that have…
Patrick Bond
World Soccer Corruption, Africa’s “Illicit Financial Flows” and Elite Silences
10 Jun 2015
by Patrick Bond Corruption is built into the ruling structures of the United States, which has launched globe-trotting prosecutions of soccer bribery, and South Africa, which is suspected of paying bribes to host the World Cup. But the real costs of sports extravaganzas in South Africa could be as…
FikreJesus Amahazion
Empty Boxes – The West and Ethiopia’s Elections
10 Jun 2015
by Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion The ruling party in Ethiopia has gotten away with another sham election, this time with very little protest from the western powers, with whom the regime in Addis Ababa is strategically aligned. “The international community provides the regime with carte-blanche to…
Ajamu Nangwaya
“Am I free to go?”: The Refuseniks’ Campaign to Resist Police Street Harassment
10 Jun 2015
by Ajamu Nangwaya “Carding,” Toronto’s version of stop-and-frisk, is opposed by a huge and growing proportion of the city’s population, as well as influential actors among the corporate elite. Yet, the local police oversight body “has given the cops a virtual license to carry out street harassment…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Mass Protests Trigger On-Going Investigations of Police Homicides
10 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Washington Post’s effort to tabulate police killings of civilians has discovered that, “among the unarmed victims of police homicides, African-American and Hispanics represent 67% or 2/3rd of all victims.” So far this year, cops have…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: UNAC Shows the Way
10 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Early in the 21st century, the United States appeared to have a large anti-war movement. But, the huge crowds melted away when a Democrat took his turn as Imperialist-in-Chief. UNAC, the United National Anti-War Movement that was created in 2010…
Paul Street
Feeding the Frenzy: The Sanders Syndrome Hits Home Court
10 Jun 2015
by Paul Street Attending an Iowa event for Bernie Sanders, Paul Street notes that his crowd is mostly aging left white Democrats who shunned the 2012 Occupy movement, that Bernie Sanders denounces only Republican plutocrats, never Democratic ones or the military budget, and that Sanders' …
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Cleveland Championship?
10 Jun 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner BAR's poet in residence reminds us that Cleveland has been taking shots as well as making shots for a long time now...
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Democrats Hope to Bury Black Lives Matter Under Election Blitz
10 Jun 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Democrats hope the Black Lives Matter movement, like the Occupy Wall Street movement, will disappear amid the hype of the coming election season. “The Democrats have mounted a systematic cooption-repression response that will intensify as the election season –…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Cleveland OH and McKinney TX Show Electing Democrats Will Never Restrain or Control the Police
10 Jun 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Black lives don't matter to elected Democrats because the Democratic party is not a membership organization of Democratic “base voters,” it's a vehicle that uses those voters to legitimize the candidates of corporate donors, to whom black lives emphatically do…