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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Iran Deal Reality
22 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. deal with Iran – based on assumptions about an Iranian nuclear weapons program that American intelligence agencies have twice concluded does not exist – allows the U.S. to concentrate on provoking Russia and China while continuing to…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Assassination of Sandra Bland and the Struggle against State Repression
22 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The Black Lives Matter movement has another martyr, as it prepares for a national conference in Cleveland, this weekend. Sandra Bland’s murder in Texas shows, once again, that “defending one’s dignity in an encounter with the police is a crime that that can…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
Black Unionists Try to Save South Africa from Becoming a Failed State
22 Jul 2015
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, editor and columnist “What the South African people fought for is not what they have received… it’s time that we continue the struggle for liberation,” said labor leaders Irvin Jim and Zwelinzima Vavi, meeting with activist allies in Washington, DC and New York City…
This Is Hell
Pretenders To Radicalism: How Syriza Betrayed Greece
22 Jul 2015
by our friends at This Is Hell Radio Remember the orgy of wishful thinking at the beginning of the Obama era? Did the Greek people invest similar unfounded hopes in a party led by pretenders? Journalist John Pilger explains.
Paul Street
Bernie Out of the Closet: Sanders’ Longstanding Deal with the Democrats
22 Jul 2015
by Paul Street Bernie may call himself a socialist, but since his terms as mayor of Burlington VT in the 1980s, the state's Democrats have never run anybody against him. In return "socialist" Bernie Sanders has supported every war and military intervention since the 1980s, just like every…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda's US-Backed Pit-Bull Regime Promotes Instability Through Violence in Burundi
29 Jul 2015
by Ann Garrison The US doesn't want stability in Africa unless it's the stability of a sweatshop, a mining camp in the shadow of a military base. In East Africa the Pax Americana is enforced by the US AFRICOM-equipped pit bull regimes of Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and of course Rwanda, which in…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
A Snapshot of Imperialism's Crime of Homelessness: Why Boston's Homeless Crisis Deepens Despite City Plan to End It
29 Jul 2015
by Danny Haiphong Homelessness in Boston has increased 40% since 2007, spurring the city's political elite to a plan to “end homelessness in Boston by 2018.” But the city's plan never mentions poverty and unavailability of affordable housing as causes of homelessness. So how likely is it to “end”…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Africa Hypocrisy
29 Jul 2015
By BAR editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The president's visit to East Africa has been the occasion for the same kind of hypocritical finger pointing Barack Obama usually reserves for his frequent hectoring of Black America, this time using "gay rights" as the standard, It's a…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
I believe in the machine of state
29 Jul 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner BAR's poet in residence considers the deaths of black women, allegedly suicides in the US Army and in police custody.
Dawn Gibson
Rockcat Stadium “Development” Blasted by Glen Ford
01 Aug 2015
Rockcat Stadium “Development” Blasted by Glen Ford by the editors Glen Ford blasts the development of the Rockcat Stadium. Ford asserts that the burden of the costs would fall on black and brown communities. Ford connects heavily funded projects like these to ethnic cleansing due to the…