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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. “…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Liberalism Still the Left Flank of Oppression in the Coming Post-Obama World
08 Jul 2015
by Danny Haiphong It is already clear that the buzz words gay rights and the Confederate flag “will be used by the powerful to move as many disaffected people toward the Democratic Party as possible.” In reality, “the American flag is the global banner of white supremacy and oppression of LGBTQ…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
The 26th Friendshipment Caravan En Route to Havana, Cuba
08 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo For more than a quarter century, U.S. volunteers have delivered aid to the Cuban people, through the Pastors for Peace Caravan. Gail Walker, daughter of the late Rev. Lucius Walker, who initiated the caravans, speaks of the historical “link…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Salvation, or let the churches say, A man…
08 Jul 2015
by Raymond Nat Turner BAR's poet in residence examines the "hypnotizing, tranquilizing, narcotizing" antics of our preacher-in-chief, and the answers of those who will be neither fooled nor misled any longer.
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Self-Defense of Black Lives DOES Matter
08 Jul 2015
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga The stars and bars are not the substance of white supremacy itself. They are a deliberately odious signifier of the bloody suppression of black bodies, aspirations and lives from the end of Reconstruction and to the dawn of the Freedom movement of the 1950s and 60s. Some…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Self Determination Matters
09 Jul 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two generations of political decay, Black people finally realize they “need to find ways to protect themselves from the police agencies of the Mass Black Incarceration State.” The problem is, getting the police off the community’s back is often...illegal. “…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Greece, Debt and Democracy
08 Jul 2015
By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley From Athens to Detroit the financial crises used to justify privatizations, wage-and-pension-cutting, and general austerity are being created. Their purpose is always to transfer vast public wealth into the hands of banksters and investors.
Theogene Rudasingwa
UK Government Was Right in Arresting Rwandan Spy Chief
15 Jul 2015
by Theogene Rudasingwa President Paul Kagame threw a mighty tantrum following the arrest in the UK of his spy chief, Gen. Emmanuel Karenzi Karake. But the exiled opposition party Rwanda National Congress has welcomed the arrest, applauding the new efforts by some Western nations to demand…
John Pilger
The Problem of Greece is Not Only a Tragedy: It is a Lie
15 Jul 2015
by John Pilger The Greek people said “No” to the bankers in Brussels, but their supposedly “radical” Syriza leaders immediately said “Yes.” What is the true political nature of Syriza? “Tsipras and his impressively-educated comrades were not radical in any sense of that cliched label, neither were…