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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”…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Community Control of the Police and the Politicians
06 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Like macabre clockwork, prosecutors and their grand juries refuse to indict killer cops – most recently in the case of Tamir Rice. The Black response has been woefully inadequate. “Every announcement of a killer cop going free sets off a sad…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
A Minimal Demand: Roll Back Incarceration to 1970 Levels
07 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Prison populations have increased more than seven-fold since 1970, when the mass Black incarceration regime was set in motion. If incarceration was rolled back to 1970 levels, 86 percent of current prisoners would be released. Let’s demand it be done – NOW! “…
Devon Douglas-Bower
Usurious: Bank Overdrafts are Like Payday Loans
13 Jan 2016
by Devon Douglas-Bower The nation’s biggest banks make huge profits from checking overdraft fees that effectively force “the poor to subsidize the rich.” The policy actually amounts to a kind of payday loan scheme that avoids laws against usurious interest rates. “Those without enough money to…
Washington's Blog
Clinton Email Shows that Oil and Gold Were Behind Regime Change In Libya
13 Jan 2016
Hillary Clinton’s “private” email correspondence with Middle East wheeler-dealer Sidney Blumenthal discusses France’s motives in pushing for a NATO attack on Libya, in 2011 – including Muammar Qaddafi’s intention to use Libyan gold to “provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative…
Cecelia Reyes ProPublica and Jenny Ye
100,000 NYC School Children Face Airport-Style Security Screening Every Day
13 Jan 2016
by Cecelia Reyes, ProPublica, and Jenny Ye, WNYC Every day, more New York City public school kids pass through metal detectors and undergo head-to-toe pat-downs than the traffic through Miami International Airport. “The daily ritual is borne disproportionately by students of color; black and…