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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…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Fake War on ISIS: US and Turkey Escalate in Syria
04 Aug 2015
by Eric Draitser Turkey has long been the most important supporter of both ISIS and the other al Qaida off-shoot, al Nusra. Indeed, “since at least 2012, Turkey has been the principal conduit for weapons flowing into Syria.” Therefore, Turkey’s claim that it is now at war with ISIS is a ruse for…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
The Only Issue in 2016 – the Legacy of 1776
04 Aug 2015
by Dr. T. P. Wilkinson The clowns are gathering for the circus that tours the U.S. every four years. There will be sideshows aplenty, but the central theme of the extravaganza – its sacred core – is worship of the right to private property, including the human kind, “the biblical ecumenical…
Paul Street
Bernie Sanders’ Top Five Race Problems: The Unbearable Whiteness of Nominal Nordic Socialism
04 Aug 2015
by Paul Street Bernie Sanders doesn’t understand the history and contemporary workings of race in the United States, and cannot, therefore, grasp the economics of race, either. His campaign lacks “a forthright acknowledgement of the special, vicious super-exploitation, torture and oppression…