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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…
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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…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Using Lebron James and the Oregon Occupation to Understand White Supremacy
13 Jan 2016
by Danny Haiphong Super-rich Black athlete Lebron James “chose to protect both his privileges and those of his bosses by refraining to comment on the blatant injustice of the Tamir Rice case.” The “class character of white supremacy in the U.S.” is even more dramatically evident in…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The U.S. Starves Syria
13 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In preparation for talks on Syria this month, the U.S. corporate media is pretending to be concerned about the Syrians of Madaya, caught between the lines of a war deliberately begun by the United States and its allies. “Every time a…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Swan Song for a War and Austerity President (Who is Also Black)
14 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford This year’s State of the Union Address was a kind of swan song for Barack Obama, his last before “retiring” to three presidential libraries and tens of millions in corporate dollars. Thankfully, Obama was unable to achieve his “Grand Bargain” with the GOP, and “…
Dan Glazebrook
“Deadliest Terror in the World”: The West’s Latest Gift to Africa
20 Jan 2016
by Dan Glazebrook By engineering chaos in Libya with the violent overthrow of Gaddafi in 2011, NATO “effectively turned over the entire armory of an advanced industrial state to the region’s most sectarian militias,” including Boko Haram. Moreover, the success of Boko Haram is strategically…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda, the Enduring Lies: A Project Censored Interview with Professor Ed Herman by Ann Garrison
20 Jan 2016
by Ann Garrison Nowhere is The Big Lie more powerful than in the corporate and official Western version of events in Rwanda and the Congo, where Tutsi dictator and U.S. hit-man Paul Kagame is responsible for the worst genocides since World War Two. Scholar Edward Herman and a few others have…