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Drew Franklin
Why DeRay Mckesson's Baltimore Campaign Looks Like It Comes Right Out of Teach for America's Playbook
24 Feb 2016
by Drew Franklin Twitterist and Campaign Zero honcho DeRay McKesson’s mayoral campaign platform for the Baltimore public schools “seems modeled in part on corporate education reforms under big-city mayors like Rahm Emanuel and Michael Bloomberg." Teach for America alums like McKesson…
Shea Howell
No More Poisoned Babies: People Power vs. Corporate Emergency Managers
24 Feb 2016
by Shea Howell The corporate privatizers played the anti-Black race card to justify shutting off water to tens of thousands of poor Detroiters. But they can't play that game in Flint, Michigan, where the suffering cannot be denied or "explained away by easy racial stereotypes." Flint has…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
How the Corporate Media Uses Beyoncé to Co-opt the Black Radical Movement
24 Feb 2016
by Reggie E. and edited by Danny Haiphong "Beyoncé’s latest work has been described as 'subversive' and 'unapologetically Black,'"” when in reality it is 'both anti-black liberation and counter-revolutionary." She is a Black capitalist, and "there is no market in this industry for radical…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Forever and Ever
24 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Margaret Kimberley Obama is supposed to be a lame duck, but we are seeing a resurgence of his propaganda juggernaut. With the help of phony revolutionary Russell Simmons and shameless opportunist Van Jones, the Obama brand will be marketed in perpetuity. Obama enlists…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Bogus Power of the Black Vote Within the Confines of the Democratic Party
24 Feb 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford "Black Power" has been turned on its head on the electoral front, put at the service of corporatists like Hillary Clinton. "Paralyzed by fear of the White Man's Party, Black voters find a false sense of power in clustering around the perceived 'winners'" on the…
The Real News Network
Sanders Hits a Brick Wall with the Black Vote
23 Feb 2016
by The Real News Network Bernie Sanders is about to hit a wall. Polls show that the black vote in South Carolina, and across Black America is heavily skewed against him. The fearful lesser-evilism that pervades black politics will doom the Sanders candidacy long before the Democratic…
Joshua Hammer
The US Extends Its Drone War Deeper Into Africa With Secretive Base
02 Mar 2016
by Joshua Hammer The explosive growth of Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based Islamic jihadists that surged across the region after NATO’s war of regime change in Libya, has been a boon for the U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM. The once-sleepy airport at “Garoua represents the newest expansion of America’s…
International League of Peoples’ Struggle Commission No. 6
Oppose Massive Land Grabbing, Human Rights Abuses by Ethiopian Government
02 Mar 2016
by International League of Peoples’ Struggle Commission No. 6 The regime has killed over 140 students, teachers and farmers since last November. This is part of a crackdown on anti-government protests by farmers who are demanding to stop the implementation of the Addis Ababa Integrated Master Plan…
Bill Quigley
Public Defender Meltdown in Louisiana
02 Mar 2016
by Bill Quigley Equal justice under the law is a mere abstraction, or a cruel joke, if you’re a captive of the State and don’t have a lawyer. Louisiana’s public defender offices are broke, unable to provide the most elementary protections of defendants’ rights. “The constitutional guarantee…
Cynthia McKinney
What is America doing in the South China Sea?
02 Mar 2016
by Cynthia McKinney Washington gives endless lip service to notions of democracy and the rule of law, while relentlessly pursuing global domination. “The US has embarked upon a strategy of containing the rise of Russia and China, rolling back any gains made by states friendly with them and willing…