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Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
CBC Monitor Report Card Ranks Terri Sewell Worst Black Member of Congress
24 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford, with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor Black Agenda Report is once again publishing the annual CBC Monitor Report Card. The former all-time worst Black Congressman, David Scott of Georgia, has passed the torch to a new generation of corporate-bought politicians,…
Cynthia McKinney
American Capitalism: A Disaster With no “Moral Center”
30 Sep 2015
by Cynthia McKinney Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney see capitalism through different lenses. Reich thinks the system used to have a “moral center.” McKinney says that’s nonsense: “Business as usual in the United States IS the perpetuation of…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
My Name is Nobody: Religious Fanaticism is a Western Tradition
30 Sep 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson Europeans and white Americans like to believe that religious fanaticism is endemic to the non-white, non-Christian world, and that they are the guardians of secular civilization. In reality, the historical rise of the West is a saga of fanaticism. In modern times, it was…
Mark P. Fancher
Powerless Whites Want “In” On Chitlin’ Politics
30 Sep 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Why not a Donald Trump run for the White House? With corporations firmly in control of U.S. society, presidents don’t matter much. In recent decades, the job has been “eagerly accepted by: a Georgia peanut farmer; a politician known as “Slick Willie;” a retired actor who once co-…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Bernie and Trump Trap: Beyond the Dead-End of Imperial Politics
30 Sep 2015
by Danny Haiphong “Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are here to rescue the system with a dose of fear and hope.” Trump’s open-air racism instills fear in racial minorities and people who consider themselves “liberal" or “progressive.” Sanders gives them foolish hope that the Democratic Party can be…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Putin Trumps Obama at the U.N.
30 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley With Libya, Iraq and Syria in flames, the president of Russia confronted the world’s most dangerous man in the global hall of humanity. “I cannot help asking those who have caused the situation,” said Vladimir Putin, “do you realize now what you…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Blacks Cheer Venezuelan Leader – But Still Support Democratic Party Terror
30 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Carrying on a tradition begun by Fidel Castro in 1960, Venezuelan leader Maduro came to Harlem, this week, for the opening of the UN General Assembly. When he spoke of U.S. terror in the world, the crowd cheered. But will they break with a Democratic Party and…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why I Ain't Getting on the Bus for the MMM This Or Any Other Year
01 Oct 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Getting on the bus to DC this October 10? BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon wishes you safe travels, but he ain't coming. “Justice or Else” is a meaningless slogan, he says, and MMM continues a century old tradition of black leadership dependent on an…
Cynthia McKinney
Time to Imagine: From ‘Disaster Capitalism’ to a System of Our Own
07 Oct 2015
by Cynthia McKinney The fat cats of the world are getting nervous at the tremendous success they have had in siphoning most of the planet’s wealth into their own pockets. A revolt is brewing against capitalism of all kinds, since the system “has always been about the few and has never been about…
Norman Richmond
Al Prentice “Bunchy" Carter” Would Have Rode with Nat Turner
07 Oct 2015
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali October 12 is the birthday of one of the most talented and promising young men martyred in the massive State repression against the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. “Unlike Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver and George Jackson, Carter has almost…