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Solomon Comissiong
Black Mis-Leadership Vs. African Revolutionaries: White Supremacy Elevates One, While Trying to Suppress the Other
18 Nov 2015
by Solomon Comissiong Black politicians (who are almost all Democrats) have no principles, no ambitions other than to “build their shacks of power within the Democratic Party’s political plantation.” Brainwashed Black Democrats care nothing for the universal values of social justice and peace. “…
Julian Cola
Rewind: Is Jazz America’s Greatest Artform?
18 Nov 2015
by Julian Cola The United States is expert at expropriating other people’s property: land, bodies and culture. It has expropriated jazz, alienating the art form from the people that created it, who are blandly labeled “Americans.” “This citizenry tag name, seemingly innocent and harmless at first…
Marilyn Kai Jewett
The People Demand Treatment for Mumia and 10,000 PA Inmates Suffering from Hepatitis C
18 Nov 2015
by Marilyn Kai Jewett Legions of labor leaders, elected officials and health professionals demand that Pennsylvania prison officials immediately begin treating Mumia Abu Jamal and approximately 10,000 other state prison inmates suffering from the Hepatitis C virus. The nation’s best known political…
Daniel Wedi Korbaria
I’ve Already Seen This Movie: Eritrea and the “War by Media”
18 Nov 2015
by Daniel Wedi Korbaria A U.S.-scripted drama demonizes Eritrea as a world-class “human rights” violator whose citizens are fleeing for their lives to Europe. The Europeans, on U.S. orders, create the human flood by “granting political asylum to Eritreans...beckoning more and more unfortunate…
Sukant Chandan
Beirut, Baghdad and Paris: The Colonial Racialized Hierarchy of Terrorism's Victims
18 Nov 2015
by Sukant Chandan When French, British or U.S. citizens die in terror attacks, the victims are humanized. However, when the West slaughters people of color, the victims are anonymous. ISIS behaves similarly. “The common thread between European racism and these assymetric mirror reflections of them…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
NATO and the Dangerous Escalation of US imperialism
18 Nov 2015
by Danny Haiphong If World War III comes, NATO will likely be the source of the conflagration. “The parasitic rulers of the imperial system have calculated that a march to war with Russia and China is a necessary precondition to US dominance.” NATO has become imperialism’s global…
Jemima Pierre
Zionism, Anti-Blackness, and the Struggle for Palestine: Jemima Pierre on the Boycott
18 Nov 2015
by Jemima Pierre The lynching of an African at an Israeli bus station, last month, was no isolated incident. The Eritrean immigrant was shot, kicked and beaten to death “just because of his skin color.” Last year, an “Israeli man stabbed an eighteen-month-old Eritrean girl in the head with…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Following the Underground Railroad: A Black Man Seeks Asylum in Canada
18 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ever since the founding of the United States, many Black people have clung tightly to their claim to citizenship in the racist Republic. However, Kyle Canty, a Black man from Oregon, is seeking asylum from U.S. white supremacist violence in…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Solidarity and the International League of Peoples Struggles
18 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It’s the age-old question: since the rich are so few, how do they oppress the rest of us, the many? One answer is that the masses are disorganized. “The purveyors of violence and theft depend upon a lack of solidarity and common ground…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Black Lives Matter” Groups Hoping for a Big Payday
19 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford This week, the billionaires that fund the Democratic Party and its satellite organizations will decide which of the “Black Lives Matter” groups will get paid to lead the Black “movement.” The #BlackLivesMatter network and Campaign Zero are eminently qualified for…