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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…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US Imperialism's Corporate Media Circus: Lions, Rap Beefs, and the Psychology of Oppression
12 Aug 2015
by Danny Haiphong Social media, like conventional print and broadcast media, are tools in the hands of the owning class. Consumers of these media are distracted and miseducated with lies, irrelevant nonsense and phony battles between highly paid minstrels like Drake and Meek Mill, both of whom “…
Paul Street
Posing as the Great Emancipator: Obama’s Prison-Posturing is Nothing New
12 Aug 2015
by Paul Street President Obama likes to give the impression that he is shocked and surprised by the horrors of the U.S. penal system. But the author knew the president back in the day, in Chicago, and can vouch that State Senator Obama “was fully up on the facts of the U.S. racist prison state in…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Black WWII Soldiers Gassed by US Government and the Connection to Black Lives Matter
12 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The United States has always been a killing machine, slaughtering Black nonwhites by every means possible. “Human experimentation, mass incarceration, state-sponsored police murders are merely the symptoms of an oppressive white supremacist/…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Steven Salaita, Palestine and Free Speech
12 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Zionist power engenders “fear, silence and acquiescence” in every sphere of U.S. political life, making a mockery of freedom of speech and hallowed notions of professional ethics. Just ask Steven Salaita, a renowned Palestinian academic who…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How To Hold Prominent Movement Figures Accountable – With A Private Phone Call or a Public Discussion?
12 Aug 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I've been asked why I didn't pick up the phone to talk personally to #BlackLivesMatter leaders before critiquing their published statements. Last year I was asked the same about Jesse Jackson, and years before I was asked repeatedly why I didn't contact…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
August 144 hours
12 Aug 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond "Nat" Turner Our poet recalls the living memory of the Watts LA uprising a half century ago this week
The Real News Network
Black Lives Do Matter But Do They Move? Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon interviewed by Jared Ball on the Real News Network
12 Aug 2015
Black Lives Do Matter But Do They Move? by the Real News Network