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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…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Hillary Clinton is No Worse than Barack Obama
30 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Progressive enthusiasm for Bernie and antipathy for Hillary is impressive – until one recalls that most of these folks were ga-ga over Obama not so long ago, and that Clinton and Obama are political twins. Obama is revered like a saint, “despite…
The Real News Network
What Trump's Campaign Reveals About Race and Voting
30 Mar 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump Way to the Left of Clinton on Foreign Policy – In Fact, He’s Damn Near Anti-Empire
31 Mar 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford First, Donald Trump’s campaign showed that his white supporters couldn’t care less about the Republican elite’s economic agenda – in fact, they hated it. Now, “if Republican voters accept Trump’s assault on the ideological rationale undergirding U.S. foreign policy…
Thomas C. Mountain
Millions Starve as Ethiopia Rejects Aid Through Eritrean Ports
06 Apr 2016
by Thomas C. Mountain Ethiopians faces mass starvation. Drought is the immediate cause of the catastrophe, but the ruling minority regime has exacerbated the crisis by refusing to take up neighboring Eritrea’s offer of free use of its ports, to receive needed foodstuffs. “What kind of government…
FikreJesus Amahazion
Western Sahara: Another Misinformed Imperial Analysis
06 Apr 2016
Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion The same imperial nations that colonized most of the rest of the world now try to sit in judgement of which countries should be “allowed” their independence. U.S. operatives argue that Western Sahara should not be granted self-rule, because it would become a “failed state…
Zwelinzima Vavi
South Africa: The Hyenas are Gathering to Defend Themselves
06 Apr 2016
by Zwelinzima Vavi The author, the former head of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, says the ruling African National Congress has “hammered another nail in the coffin of the revolutionary morality and values,” and “cannot make the claim that it is a leader of society.” Corruption and…