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by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Chicago: Another Department of Justice Investigation?
09 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Deja vu all over again? The announcement of a pending Justice Department investigation of the Chicago Police Department, Dr. Coleman-Abedayo notes, should provoke yawns at best, and at worst outright suspicion of pending whitewash.…
Solomon Comissiong
The Dangerous Game of Identity Politics: How the Black Community Continues to Vote Against Their Interests
16 Dec 2015
by Solomon Comissiong Far too many Black folks will vote for their worst enemy, if he or she looks like them. That’s why identity politics, which masquerades as a Black Power strategy, winds up disempowering African Americans every election cycle. Identity politics makes Black people politically…
Cynthia McKinney
Democracy Denied: US Turning Haiti into Another Vassal State
16 Dec 2015
by Cynthia McKinney The goal of U.S. imperialism is to subordinate all other nations to the demands of capitalists, often destroying those nations in the process. U.S. foreign policy is deemed “successful” when the targeted nations and peoples are stripped of every vestige of national sovereignty…
Mark P. Fancher
Big Business, Big Guns and Big Lies in Africa
16 Dec 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Africa has been invaded and re-occupied, militarily and commercially. “Non-African superpowers are competing for and staking claims to Africa’s resources while Africans look on with helpless resignation.” The U.S. military holds sway from the Cape to Cairo. But, “in the 21st…
Eric Draitser
Assessing Venezuela’s Elections: The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent
16 Dec 2015
by Eric Draitser The unthinkable happened in Venezuela this month: Hugo Chavez’s party was decisively defeated in legislative elections. “The wealthy and middle class neighborhoods of Caracas erupted in cheers and celebrations, while the poor and working class sections of the city seemingly went…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Venezuela's Election Results Hold Global Significance
16 Dec 2015
by Danny Haiphong The stunning defeat of the Socialist Party in Venezuela is a threat to leftist governments and movements around the world, especially in Latin America. “The oligarchy would undoubtedly move to dissolve the ties of solidarity the Bolivarian movement has…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Why African Americans Should Stand with Muslims and Arabs
16 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The methods of repression that are now directed against Muslims and Arabs in the United States were developed to oppress Black Americans and will return tomorrow “when the state and public opinion turns against the latest expressions of black opposition…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Rich Countries Subvert Climate Change Talks
16 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The recent Paris talks on climate change failed utterly to slow the planetary slide towards extinction. The human-induced heat wave will continue to build. President Obama and other world leaders “say they want to reverse fossil fuel emissions…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Rotten Orchards Givin’ Apples a Bad Name
16 Dec 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Rotten apples aren't unique, points out our poet, and ain't caused by bad barrels. The rot's at the root, and roots run deep and true...
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How Democrats and Republicans Collude to Block the Vote -- And How We Can Un-Block It
17 Dec 2015
We hear lots of outrage about how Republicans block the vote. But blocking the vote by keeping third parties off the ballot with unjust laws in more than a dozen states is a project Democrats share with Republicans. Both capitalist parties know you can't vote against gentrification or mass…