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Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
BlackLivesMatter Activists: Targets of US Surveilence
05 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Obama administration’s spy agencies have been keeping track of the movements, communications and activities of the new crop of Black activists. Although not surprising, the recent reports should give rise to “new strategies and tactics to…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: A Dead Lion and a Dead Black Man
05 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When word reached the U.S. that Cecil the lion had been shot to death in Zimbabwe, much of white America was reduced to tears. But few of them know or care about Samuel DuBose, a Black man gunned down in Cincinnati by a white security guard. “…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Poll Shows Black People Have Begun to Recover Their Senses on Race Relations
05 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Finally, Black perceptions of the actual racial situation in the United States are catching up with reality, after years of collective delusion under The First Black President. “Black perceptions on race have swung 20 percent – from 48 to 68 percent negative – in…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US Imperialism’s Decline is the Driving Force of History, Not It’s Growth
04 Aug 2015
by Danny Haiphong The U.S imperial order is in a terminal state. Despite its overwhelming conventional military strength, the Empire needs the services of jihadist terrorists to promote its policies in the Middle East, “yet cannot allow them to take power as they did in Libya.” Latin America has…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Mississippi Stuntmen
04 Aug 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Our poet in residence reflects upon the unique and innovative skillsets deployed by those who allegedly take their own lives in police custody
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Where's the #BlackLivesMatter Critique of the Black Misleadership Class, or Obama or Hillary?
06 Aug 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon If #BlackLivesMatter is a movement, just what does that mean? Obama's 2008 campaign said it was “the movement” too. If modern movements are indistinguishable from brands, to whom are they responsible besides “creators” and marketers? Are some #BlackLivesMatter…
Sam Husseini
New Mural in D.C.: Shooting the “War Thug” Presidents in the Balls
05 Aug 2015
by Sam Husseini Some good citizen of Washington committed an act of street justice against the most fearsome gang of thugs imaginable: 11 U.S. presidents. The mass-killers-in-chief were hit with a fusillade of paint balls to the imperial crotch – a low blow to the low-lifes who have terrorized…
Alemayehu G Mariam
Barack Obama, Tell the Truth About Ethiopia!
12 Aug 2015
Alemayehu G. Mariam Last month, President Obama declared that Ethiopia has a “democratically elected government.” That is the country where, in May elections, the ruling party won all the 547 seats in parliament, thrashing all the 78 other parties. If there ever has been an election won by one…
Thomas C. Mountain
US vs China in Djibouti
12 Aug 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain China will soon station 10,000 troops in Djibouti, on the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa, alongside U.S., French and Japanese bases. When they wake up to the new reality, powerful members of the U.S. Congress can be expected to discover that “it is time for ‘regime change’ in…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Africa’s Problem from Hell: Samantha Power
12 Aug 2015
by Ann Garrison Barack Obama will likely be remembered by history as the president that honed “humanitarian” intervention into a favored weapon of regime change. Samantha Power is the trigger. The U.S. Ambassador to the UN has set her sites on Burundian President Nkurunziza, five of whose high…