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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
#BlackLivesMatter: Chat Partners with Hillary
14 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #BlackLivesMatter organization is now part of the 2016 Democratic Party election machinery, assuming its role as a power broker on behalf of Black people. It’s a familiar historical pattern, except for the speed with which the transition has taken place. “The #…
Solomon Comissiong
Massa I Won’t Tell: Why Many Black Athletes/Entertainers Remain Silent on Social Justice Issues
21 Oct 2015
by Solomon Comissiong We collectively cringe when they speak before the cameras: Black athletes and entertainers mouthing words designed to please racist white fans. “Why should any African/black person cheerlead for other African/black entertainers if they lack the moral courage to lend their…
Thomas C. Mountain
Climate Disaster Hammers Ethiopia
21 Oct 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain Western capitalists are all the rage about the phenomenal “success” of Ethiopia’s economy. Yet, Africa’s second most populous nation cannot feed its desperately poor people. Foreign money goes largely to prop up “the largest, best equipped army in Africa,” which acts as “the…
Didas Gasana
Like Syria, Burundi is a War Theater: The China-Russia Axis vs. the US-EU Axis
21 Oct 2015
by Didas Gasana There is no doubt that the U.S.-led unipolar global order is facing stiff competition from the East. The BRICS block, especially Russian and China, so far presents to the U.S. the most difficult challenge since the U.S. rise to global supremacy. “Deep down in the center of sub-…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Moderate Extremism and Extremist Moderation: Symptoms of Structural Illiteracy and Racism in the US-European Empire
21 Oct 2015
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children was “worth it” – meaning, a reasonable price to pay for continued U.S. global dominance. There is no price in “colored” people’s blood and sovereignty that the U.S. Empire is…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Christopher Columbus Lives On Today Through US Capitalism
21 Oct 2015
by Danny Haiphong Uncle Sam walks in the genocidal shoes of Christopher Columbus, laying waste to the people’s and resources of the world. “US capitalism's alliance of death is motivating many nations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to form a military and economic partnership with Russia and…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Militarization of U.S. Police is a Reflection of United States Foreign Policy
21 Oct 2015
by Abayomi Azikiwe “The militarization of U.S. society is as old as the American system itself,” but the policy kicked into a high gear in the mid to late Sixties, to crush Black urban revolt. In Ferguson, the cops revealed themselves as domestic shock troops for capitalism. “These are the same…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Reckless Eyeballing in the Former Chocolate City and Rise Up October in New York
21 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Until this decade, Washington, DC was the quintessential “Chocolate City,” where Blackness was normal and white folks acclimated themselves to the environment. No more. Jason Goolsby became the latest victim of reckless “eyeballing of a white…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Lives Don’t Matter in Israel
21 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If you want to observe a racist lynch mob, go to Israel, the “world’s worst apartheid state.” After being shot by police, an innocent Eritrean immigrant was pursued by an Israeli mob that “kicked him, threw chairs and benches at his head and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Blacks Will Transform America, and Free Themselves, But Not at the Ballot Box in 2016
22 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It is paradoxical that African Americans, who politically most resemble the Scandinavian social democrats Bernie Sanders claims to admire, are not supporting Sanders for president. Based on a “calculus of fear,” African Americans “cast their votes in national…