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Issa Shivji
Whither Africa in the Global South?: Lessons of Bandung and Pan-Africanism
11 Nov 2015
by Issa Shivji Africa’s comprador ruling classes and educated middle class are so compromised by imperialism that they are incapable of providing the revolutionary leadership required for the continent’s true liberation. The only possible alternative is that of the working people. They need an…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Self Determination: What It Is, What It Isn't
11 Nov 2015
by Danny Haiphong Malcolm X’s call for Black self-determination remains widely misunderstood in the United States, including among Black activists. Some even hold that Barack Obama’s election was an expression of Black self-determination. But self-determination is about people’s power, not voter…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The New York Times Covers Up American Role in Refugee Suffering
11 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Like its corporate media cousins, the New York Times uses the global refugee crisis to spread propaganda on behalf of the U.S. government, which created the crisis in the first place. The Times scrupulously omits the facts of U.S. complicity in…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Corporate Media is Never Your Friend
11 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After bringing the University of Missouri to its knees, Black students wanted some privacy in a “black space,” away from the peering eyes and suspect motives of the media. Media does, however, have its privileges. When Black activists and their allies challenged…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s Civil Rights Movement
12 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Shaun King and others like to compare today’s incipient movement to the civil rights era. But that’s a mistake. Today’s youth confront “a profoundly post-civil rights phenomenon”: the Mass Black Incarceration State, a national project that was created as a response…
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…