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America's Preferred Jihadists and the Crisis in Syria
23 Mar 2016
This Is Hell
It Wasn't Just Republicans: How the EPA's own poisoned politics failed to protect the people of Flint
23 Mar 2016
EPA whistleblower Marsha Coleman-Adebayo explains how the regulatory body allowed internal politics and outright negligence to turn Flint into a sacrifice zone, and ties the current crisis to America's long history (and present) of ignoring environmental threats to communities of color. Marsha is…
Cynthia McKinney
America, We Have a Problem: Homelessness is Out of Control
30 Mar 2016
by Cynthia McKinney Cities throughout the United States, and especially up and down the west coast, are locked in a crisis of homelessness. Yet, “not one word is uttered about the criminalization of the poor” in this presidential election season. Luxury housing is booming, while rapacious…
Fidel Castro Ruz
Fidel’s Letter to “Brother Obama”
30 Mar 2016
by Fidel Castro Ruz In Havana, President Obama behaved as if the United States – and he, himself – were a gift to Cuba and the world. Fidel Castro disagrees: “We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and…
John Pilger
A World War has Begun. Break the Silence
30 Mar 2016
by John Pilger The United States is constantly preparing to launch a global holocaust, under the guise of “defense.” It is a country singularly unfit to hold the destiny of humanity in its unstable hands. America has put the whole species on a war footing. “At present, it is a war of propaganda, of…
Peter James Hudson
The Racist Dawn of Capitalism: Unearthing the Economy of Bondage
30 Mar 2016
by Peter James Hudson Capitalist historians and other political actors attempt to treat chattel slavery as a “pre-capitalist” system that was extirpated in the Americas by its supposed nemesis, the enlightened forces of the “free” market. But slavery created the riches that “kick-started”…
Benjamin Woods
Class Struggle and National Liberation in the Movement for Black Lives
30 Mar 2016
by Benjamin Woods The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) must recognize the dynamic relationship between race and class in Black America – contradictions that “can only be resolved through explicit, conscious class struggle” within the community. What’s needed is a socialist, mass-based Black…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Hillary Clinton: Predictably Zionist
30 Mar 2016
by Danny Haiphong The Republicans have no monopoly on warmongering and support for apartheid. “Hillary Clinton's stance on Israel is further to the right of the US left's primary target at the moment, Donald Trump.” Clinton vows to take the U.S.-Israeli alliance to the “next level,” through…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Investigation into Flint: Children in the Crosshairs
30 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The crime against humanity that was committed in Flint, Michigan, has been silently replicated in cities all across the nation. Investigations show 2,000 water systems in all 50 states register excessive lead levels, with Ithaca, New York’s…
Arnold August
Obama in Cuba: How “Political Prisoners” Made the Media Headlines
30 Mar 2016
by Arnold August The U.S. propaganda machine is always primed to attack Cuba. However, President Obama could not, himself, publicly raise the question of Cuban political prisoners, which would have been a breach of trip protocol. Instead, CNN’s Jim Acosta performed his imperial duty. Had Acosta…