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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…
Kali Holloway
The Massive Discrepancies Between Media Coverage of Mythical Crack Babies and Opiate-Dependent Babies
20 Jan 2016
by Kali Holloway Three decades ago, hysteria about “crack-babies” helped launch another wave of racial vilification and oppression. Today, most new drug addicts are white, and “we have not witnessed the pervasive vilification or scaremongering of drug-addicted mothers and their babies that we…
Bryan K. Bullock
MLK and the Black Misleaders
20 Jan 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The current crop of Black “leaders” ceremonially endorse Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and works – but he would not vouch for theirs. “They betray King’s legacy in their explicit and implicit support of U.S. imperialism and wars by condoning and making excuses for the current…
Kali Akuno
An Unbroken Line: New Afrikan Resistance from 1619 to the Present
20 Jan 2016
by Kali Akuno The current upsurge in Black “movement”-type politics has been in the making for a decade. Katrina “reawakened the Black radical imagination” in 2005. Like a wave, the momentum built through the Jena 6 campaign and the Justice for Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin actions, culminating in…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Power Ball and the American Psychosis of Capitalism
20 Jan 2016
by Danny Haiphong When capitalism is sinking, the working class is drowning, and flails about for a life raft – like Power Ball. “Workers, especially the increasing numbers thrown out of the labor force, must possess a strong hope of individual gain within the confines of the capitalist…
Frank X Murphy
Flint River Poison and Governor Snyder’s New Clothes
20 Jan 2016
by Frank X Murphy The whole world knows that Flint River water stinks and is full of lead. But, it is “the smell of Gov. Rick Snyder’s unprecedented, radically anti-democratic and cunningly racist ‘emergency management’ statutes” that has killed every vestige of democracy for cities like Flint. The…