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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
A Republican Meltdown Won’t Make the Democrats Better
10 Mar 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The impending breakup of the Republican Party will not create more favorable conditions for Black and progressive electoral politics. Instead, it will compel the Democrats to build a “big tent” party, after the convention this summer. The strategy will “push Blacks…
Solomon Comissiong
Hillary Clinton: The Wicked Witch of the West
16 Mar 2016
by Solomon Comissiong Some evil is banal, some unspeakable. Hillary Clinton is wickedly evil. “Thanks to vile fork-tongued warmongers like her, Libya is a country that is now submerged in a quagmire of civil war, death and destruction.” Hillary brings death here at home, as well. “She has been a…
Patrick Bond
Austerity Gathers Pace in Schizophrenic South Africa
16 Mar 2016
by Patrick Bond The unprecedented contagion of what President Zuma has called “gossip and rumor” around his inner circle threatens the internal stability of the Pretoria regime. The loyalty of many key individuals is being tested. Indeed the ANC’s schizophrenia was amplified recently Zuma himself…
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement
16 Mar 2016
by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Nobody’s history – Black, white or brown – is taught in U.S. classrooms if COINTELPRO is not part of the lesson plan. Civics and social studies are defective and deceptive if they fail to inform students of the FBI’s campaign to “neutralize” dissidents by any means necessary,…
Bryan K. Bullock
Blacks Have Always Had to Fight to Make Their Lives Matter in America
16 Mar 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The simple, straight-forward assertion “Black Lives Matter” seems to jangle the sensibilities of millions of white Americans, who counter that “ALL lives matter” or “BLUE lives matter.” They feel assaulted by affirmations of the worthiness of Black life, yet claim to be non-…
Paul Street
Bernie, Black, and Blue: Reflections on Race in the Democratic Primaries
16 Mar 2016
by Paul Street If Black people are the most left-leaning constituency in the United States, why have they been voting for right-wing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the primaries? It is true that Bernie Sanders’ economic program is far better than Clinton’s. However, rising New Deal-type tides do not…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Empire’s Weapon of Identity Politics and the “Ghetto” Comment Controversy
16 Mar 2016
by Danny Haiphong President Obama’s political pit bulls have become attack dogs for Hillary Clinton. MSNBC pundit Joy Reid “has placed her career prospects” in Clinton’s camp, employing identity politics to snipe at Bernie Sanders. Neither wing of the corporate-bought Democratic Party can “change…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
McCarthy and Snyder to Testify before House Oversight Committee on the Poisoning of Flint’s Children
16 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Crimes against humanity have been committed in Flint, Michigan. Punishment must fit the crime. “It is time to remove all political actors both in the federal and state governments from public service and refer them to DOJ for criminal…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Protesting Trump and Hillary Too
16 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democrats want to make Donald Trump’s racism the only campaign issue, to divert attention from their imperial wars and the global race to the bottom. Trump is a GOP outsider, but the Democrats “eagerly conspire with Republicans on…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Hillary Wants a Crusade to Defeat Trump’s “Bigotry” – and Leave Her Bankers Alone
17 Mar 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If Hillary Clinton can make the general election into a crusade against “bigotry” and “intolerance” as embodied by Donald Trump, she can win with an otherwise issue-less campaign, thus shielding the 1% from harm. Black folks will be happy, imagining the election is…