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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
What The Video Shows
01 Dec 2015
by BAR's poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Video, as police and military malefactors frequently remind us, is two dimensional.
amandla mobi
South African TV Breaks Promise to Marikana Widows
01 Dec 2015
by amandla.mobi Three years ago, police massacred 34 striking miners at Marikana, South Africa – a watershed event in the growing resistance to the African National Congress government’s neoliberal policies. With the ANC deeply implicated in the massacre, the South African Broadcasting Corporation…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda Conscripts Burundian Refugees into New “Rebel Force”: An Interview with Jeff Drumtra
01 Dec 2015
by Ann Garrison Rwandan Tutsi dictator Paul Kagame came to power as a leader of a Uganda-based rebel army that invaded Rwanda, plunging the nation a into civil war that ended in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Now Kagame’s Rwanda is recruiting refugees from neighboring Burundi into a rebel…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Reflections on Multiracial Identity on Another Thanksgiving Passed
01 Dec 2015
by Danny Haiphong The U.S. imperial domain floats on raw force and fairy tales. One myth “paints the U.S. as a safe haven for people of different backgrounds instead of the genocidal settler state that it is.” Another tale holds that multi-racial identity “carries with it new experiences…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Killer White Men and the People Who Love Them
01 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The usual suspects have once again gone on a killing spree, this time in Colorado. President Obama moaned, as usual, about too many guns. Anti-abortionists claimed their guy was mentally ill, and that they are not to blame. But white society…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Negroes Need Not Apply: The EU-Africa Malta Conference
01 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Desperate to stem the “blackening” of the white homeland, the European Union last month offered billions in bribes to African governments to keep their citizens at home. “The goal of the ‘cash on the table’ deal was to place the…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Neo-Liberal Assault on Black Lives from Baltimore to Buenaventura Colombia
01 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Black people in Baltimore, USA, and Buenaventura, Colombia, are oppressed by the same monster. “In both cases, the effects of capitalist globalization have resulted in massive displacement of black populations; increased poverty; economic marginalization of…
The Real News Network
Will Hillary Clinton Do More For Black America Than Did Obama? Is That A Low Enough Bar?
01 Dec 2015
The Real News Network's Jared Ball interviews Glen Ford on Michael Eric Dyson's fulsome endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the New Republic.
Nick Turse
AFRICOM: America's Empire of Military Bases in Africa
09 Dec 2015
AFRICOM: America's Empire of Military Bases in Africa by Nick Turse The Pentagon claims to have only a single US military base on the African continent. This is an outright lie. the number of US military installations, training missions, military exercises and deployments on the African…
The Real News Network
COP 21 in Paris: No Climate Reparations, No Economic Retooling, Militarization and Business As Usual
09 Dec 2015
by The Real News Network Even before the recent killings in Paris, reports Kali Akuno, the Un Conference on Climate Change in Paris was calculated to ignore input from civil society. President Obama declared there would be no climate reparations, no massive retooling of economies, nothing but…