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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Problem of Bernie Sanders and the “Left”
03 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Bernie Sander’s near-tie with Hillary Clinton in Iowa is fanning the fantasies of those who never cease to disbelieve in transforming the Democratic Party “from below.” What is certain, is that corporate evil-doers will still rule both wings of…
Asentewaa Nkrumah
Observations on Carrying Forward the Black Radical Tradition After Philly
03 Feb 2016
by Sis. Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture Organizers of the very successful Jan 7-10 Philadelphia conference on Reclaiming the Black Radical Tradition have pointed to “a pattern of disruption” by pursued there political elements who sought to undermine the conference's legitimacy and unity. Why? Who were…
The Real News Network
Flint, Atlantic City, and the Destruction of Democracy
03 Feb 2016
Flint, Atlantic City, and the Destruction of Democracy by our friends at the Real News Network Flint Michigan isn't the only place where local rights over infrastructure have been stolen and put in the hands of un-elected "emergency managers" whose first priorities are always repayment of wealthy…
This Is Hell
The Global Network of US Military Bases Provide the Infrastructure For Permanent War
03 Feb 2016
by our friends at This Is Hell For two generations now, the US has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed outside its borders. US troops are in more countries than the Mongols, the Romans or the Brit empires in their day, and the US maintains more military bases than embassies or consulates.…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Vector of Fear: Blacks and the Democratic Party
04 Feb 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Blacks in the South will probably not vote for Bernie Sanders, although they most resemble the “Scandinavian social democrats” of Sanders dreams. However, Black voters don’t express their politics through the ballot. Rather, “Blacks are drawn into the jaws of the…
Motsoko Pheko
The Shame of South Africa’s Black Political Prisoners
10 Feb 2016
by Motsoko Pheko More than twenty years after the end of formal apartheid, several African nationalists who resisted the inhuman system are still languishing in prison. Yet many apartheid agents who committed atrocious crimes against the African people were pardoned, some without even expressing…
Shane Burley
Portland Tenants United Leads a New Call for Organizing Against Evictions and Displacement
10 Feb 2016
by Shane Burley When renters band together, they can stop gentrification in its tracks, say tenants union advocates in Portland, Oregon. “Just as workers can have a union in their workplaces, tenants should have the same power of collective action, and bargaining, in their homes.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Pentagon Request of 582 Billion in 2017 another Indication of Imperialism's Desperation
10 Feb 2016
by Danny Haiphong Washington’s hyper-aggressive rhetoric is backed up by a Pentagon budget that promises never-ending war for the foreseeable future. The world will pay a horrific price. U.S. wars “no longer stimulate a recovery of imperialism’s economic base, but rather exacerbate crisis.” As a…
Mumia Abu Jamal
Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
10 Feb 2016
by Mumia Abu-Jamal The adage that there are different systems of justice for rich and poor, Black and white, is horrifically confirmed in Flint, Michigan, where the white supremacist, capitalist state poisoned a majority Black and poor population. Yet, in U.S. society there is no…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
EPA’s Deliberate Poisoning of Flint’s Children
10 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Flint, Michigan, was declared a “sacrifice zone” because its majority Black and poor population’s “presence is no longer required and their lives are considered a hindrance to economic progress,” writes the author, who blew the whistle on EPA…