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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Baltimore Fries
01 Jul 2015
by BAR poet in residence Nathaniel Turner No fries for Ferguson, no burgers For Baltimore—have it your way…
This Is Hell
Key Failures of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare an Obstacle to Universal Health Care
01 Jul 2015
Key Failures of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare an Obstacle to Universal Health Care by our friends at This Is Hell Radio Trudy Lieberman: “We are replacing a crisis of un-insurance with a crisis of under-insurance, and we’re going to find people with very high deductables and very high cost-…
The Real News Network
Yasmin Nair on the Mixed Blessings of Gay Marriage Victory
01 Jul 2015
by The Real News Network Yasmin Nair on the Mixed Blessings of Gay Marriage Victory
Your World News
Ajamu Baraka on Trans Pacific Partnership & Obama Disillusionment
01 Jul 2015
Ajamu Baraka on Trans Pacific Partnership & Obama Disillusionment UrWorld NewsMedia Ajamu Baraka on hymn singing preacher politicians, NAFTA-on-steroids global trade pacts. TPP Baraka explains, guarantees a corporation's right to "takings," a sort of reparations for any "anticipated profits"…
The Real News Network
Why Chicago Won't Go Bankrupt, and Detroit Didn't Have To
02 Jul 2015
Why Chicago Won't Go Bankrupt, and Detroit Didn't Have To The Real News Network
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Both Major U.S. Parties are Plagues on Humanity
02 Jul 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The two corporate parties have collaborated in knocking off countries targeted for invasion and regime change. They have both nurtured the jihadist international network that was created under presidents Carter and Reagan. And presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama are…
Filmon Zerai
An Eritrean in Mississippi: The Importance of Black Diaspora-Eritrea Solidarity
08 Jul 2015
The work of a Black lawyer named Lumumba from Detroit drew a young man from Eritrea to Jackson, Mississippi, last year. “I learned how Chokwe Lumumba valued Black diasporan engagement to build solidarity and power,” writes the author. “I experienced the egalitarian spirit of Eritrea in Jackson’s…
Mark P. Fancher
Dr. Che Guevara’s Prescription for Africa’s AFRICOM Headache
08 Jul 2015
by Mark P. Fancher With the United States military command in the lead, “western troops and advisors continue their forward march across African.” But continental liberation is still possible: it just requires the spark of a decisive example. “At least one African country should, pursuant to its…
Netfa Freeman
U.S. - Cuba Policy: A Goal by Any Other Strategy Still Smells As Sweet
08 Jul 2015
by Netfa Freeman Washington keeps harping about the benefits to Cuba of closer relations with the United States, but never considers “how Cuba might assist in transforming the social and moral essence of the U.S.A.” The United States and its people could learn a great deal from Cuba’s experience in…
Benjamin Woods
Six Lessons #BlackLivesMatter Can Learn From Amilcar Cabral
08 Jul 2015
by Benjamin Woods The emergent Black Lives Matter mobilization is nearing the juncture where it will grow into a true mass movement for liberation, or take some other fork in the road. BlackLivesMatter# should study the practice and writings of Amilcar Cabral, the great African revolutionary. “…