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Paul Street
A Sacrificial Rahm? Mayor 1%, Racist Policing, and Metropolitan Disorder
22 Dec 2015
by Paul Street Black Chicago is fired up – which means that Corporate Chicago may be in a mood to fire Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whom they trusted to “keep ghetto residents pacified.” Protesters ruined Black Friday for Magnificent Mile merchants, teachers are threatening to strike again, and a mayoral…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: San Bernardino and Government Terror
23 Dec 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The official version of events lacks credibility in most cases of domestic “terrorism,” and the San Bernardino shooting is no exception. “Several eye witnesses described shooters or suspicious persons fleeing the scene as three white men wearing…
Warren Mar
Why NonProfits Can't Lead the 99%
22 Dec 2015
by Warren Marr A seasoned movement elder examines what happens left organizations are led exclusively by college-educated professionals answerable to self-perpetuating boards and philanthropic funders, what happens when union leaderships free themselves from their memberships, and when…
Hugh Esco
Low Hanging Fruit: Curbing Police Violence in Georgia Would Be A Good Start
21 Dec 2015
by Hugh Esco This weekend the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a front page report acknowledging the fact of police violence and impunity in Georgia. While the AJC didn't make the source data public, and didn't include strong and specific recommendations on how to curb killer cops and their…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Rahmbo Must Go, says My Wise Country Cousin
22 Dec 2015
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner With Chicagoans in the street almost every day meeting, marching, teaching-in and demanding the resignation of mayor Rahm Emanuel, the poet checks in with his wise country cousin.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Palestinians Resist Zionist Terror, Plus U.S., European, Arab Royal, Turkish and Nigerian Terror
24 Dec 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The West has forced millions to become wandering, destitute refugees, as it destroys nations and peoples that get in the way of Empire. Palestinians have lived this reality for 67 years. Beirut sits at the lip of the volcano.
Navid Nasr
Nigeria Massacre: The Islamic Movement and Its Discontents
06 Jan 2016
by Navid Nasr On December 12, as many as 1,000 people were gunned down in the streets and in their homes in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria. They were Shia Muslims, defenders of the rights of Palestinians and critics of corruption in Nigerian society and the brutality of the country’s military…
Bryan K. Bullock
And We are Not Saved: Blacks and Climate Change
06 Jan 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock Climate change will multiply the scourges that afflict Black people. “Black lives have always been vulnerable, expendable and exploitable under a capitalist, white supremacist, imperialist system, and climate change will exacerbate our vulnerability, expendability and…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
New Year, Same Crisis: Prepare for Imperialism's Terror and Carnage in 2016
06 Jan 2016
by Danny Haiphong “Happy New Year” means something totally different to the Lords of Capital and their military goons. “The ruling class's resolution for the New Year is to increase the misery of the people and enrich itself, even as the system moves more and more toward collapse every day.” Wall…
R.L. Stephens II
The Hidden Colors of Frances Cress Welsing’s Historical Legacy
06 Jan 2016
by R.L. Stephens II Many are mourning the passing of Dr. Frances Welsing, whose melanin-based genetic pseudo-science found an eager audience among several generations of Black Americans. Her theory of genetic warfare is, in fact, a profoundly counter-revolutionary “impediment to Black liberation”…