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Bill Quigley
Ten Troubling Numbers Labor Day 2015
09 Sep 2015
by Bill Quigley U.S. workers are in bad shape. Two-thirds of poor people have jobs that don’t lift them out of poverty. Actual unemployment is at least twice as high as the official figure. Blacks are twice as jobless as whites, as they have been for generations. CEO’s make hundreds of times more…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Mom, Is it War Yet? – Part II: Two Suns in the Sunset
09 Sep 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson The United States has been under no threat from any other nation since the end of World War Two, but has invented various menaces to mask its own unrelenting quest for world domination. The Soviets, the “Red” Chinese, falling dominos, and now “terrorists” (created by the U.S…
Thomas C. Mountain
Remembering Dedon Kamathi
09 Sep 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain Dedon Kamathi, the former Black Panther and All African Peoples Revolutionary Party activist who educated listeners weekly on KPFK radio, touched many lives, including the author’s. “His spirit, embodied in the revolutionary consciousness of Pan Africanism and revolutionary…
Henry Giroux
Dark Waters: Hurricane Katrina, the Politics of Disposability and the Racism of Malcolm Gladwell
09 Sep 2015
by Henry Giroux Ten years after the Katrina catastrophe pushed 100,000 Black people out of New Orleans, it has become acceptable in polite society to advocate involuntary dispersal of Black and poor people. “This is the reasoning in support of creating the dehumanized Other, one that rationalizes…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Why George Jackson Matters Through the Lens of Blood in My Eye
09 Sep 2015
by Danny Haiphong George Jackson was a giant that U.S. State could not contain – so it killed him. “It was Jackson who developed a foundational theory of the prison state in relationship to the design of the imperialist system.” Jackson said revolutionary movements require three elements: “an above…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Da Man He Call ‘Rump’
09 Sep 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Rump playin’ “Great Wite Hope”, fo po lil’ wite men Trickin’ dey dum asses into thinkin’ dat he dey frien… ‘Cause dey jus’ too stooped, hatin’ Brouns an Blaks— Dummies stickin’ de 1% knife in dey own baks!
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Black Lives Matter: A Call to Pan-African Unity – Justice for Emmanuel!
09 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo A Nigerian mother started out at the bottom in the United States, raised and educated five children, and bought a spacious home in one of the nation’s wealthiest counties. But that didn’t stop a cop from shooting her son to death and claiming…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Refugees Flee American Aggression
09 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Americans are made uncomfortable by pictures of drowned refugee children, but most cannot accept that their own government’s “unrelenting effort at regime change in Syria is the cause of this crisis.” U.S. corporate media parrot Washington’s…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Why is Cornel West Sheep-Dogging for the Democrats – Once Again?
09 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Cornel West has thrown his support to Bernie Sanders, the nominal socialist – but unquestionable Democrat – running for president. Dr. West says Sanders “tells the truth about Wall Street, white supremacy, empire, patriarchy and homophobia.” Really? The…
The Real News Network
How One Chicago High School Became Ground Zero For School Privatization
09 Sep 2015
by the Real News Network