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Cynthia McKinney
Clinton and the Benghazi Committee: Dancing on a Tightrope
04 Nov 2015
by Cynthia McKinney Hillary Clinton, who takes credit for the invasion and regime change in Libya, claims to be blameless for the war’s consequences, including the spread of Islamic jihad in the region. “Hillary’s War” expanded to claim hundreds of thousands more lives. “After destroying Libya, the…
Dr. Walter C. Farrell Jr.
Public School Privatization Strategies: What Teachers, Unions, and Public Education Stakeholders Should Know
04 Nov 2015
The future of public education is not guaranteed. A corporate-financed “Cartel has infiltrated every level of the political structure by utilizing targeted campaign contributions and has cultivated major backing among public education’s traditional supporters.” The privatizers target heavily…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Miners Shot Down! The Marikana Massacre Represents the Beginning of the End of the ANC – Part II
04 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The bloodbath at Marikana was a watershed for post-apartheid South Africa. The compact between Big Capital and the ruling African National Congress is no longer acceptable to the workers that produce fabulous wealth for multinational…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
War, Repression and International Gangsterism: U.S. State Policy from Benghazi to Baltimore
04 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka When it comes to maintaining U.S. imperial power and the rule of the rich, impunity is absolute. The congressional Benghazi hearings exposed not a single official crime, while suppressing vast violations of U.S. and international law. The domestic Obama…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Americans are Poor
04 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If Americans understood how poor they actually are – on a par with Latvians and Romanians, according to newly released data – they would dump the Democratic Party. With “more black children in poverty than white children,” it’s past time for…
Jeremy Malcolm
The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
03 Nov 2015
By Jeremy Malcolm The TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership is a body of secret law so odious that the Obama administration seeks to enact it into law without its content made known to the public for 5 years afterward. The only way the public can know what it contains is for courageous whistleblowers…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Obama Education Legacy Part 2: Obama Appoints Another Privatizing Stooge Secretary of Education
04 Nov 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When president-elect Barack Obama announced Arne Duncan would be Secretary of Education in December 2008, Black Agenda Report called him an “underqualified stooge and privatizer.” The best thing we can say about his successor John King is that he's not…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Demand Nothing, Get Nothing: The Movement Needs to Say What It Wants
05 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The movement that emerged in Ferguson must define itself through the demands it makes of Power – “a truth that appears to have been widely forgotten in the two generations since Black America last experienced a mass movement.” “Black Lives Matter” is not a…
The Editors
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06 Nov 2015
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Will the West Create Its Next Failed State in Burundi?
11 Nov 2015
by Ann Garrison In the current era, states do not “fail” – they are targeted and destroyed. The tiny central African nation of Burundi appears to be next on the West’s list. U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, a close ally of Hillary Clinton, is leading the destabilization…