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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Panama Papers Problem
06 Apr 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Panama tax haven leaks reveal a lot about the lawlessness of the rich, as well as the ideological bias of the western press. “Vladimir Putin’s name appears nowhere, but the corporate media used his image repeatedly to drum up interest in…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Mule Dung at the Apollo
06 Apr 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner The poet's wise cousin from the country offers his view from Harlem, where folks is linin' up to touch the yoke of ol' Hillree, Massa Willie's best mule..."
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No Trace of Dr. King's Politics in the 2016 US Political Scene
06 Apr 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Sports Bar Politics and Corporate Duopolies
07 Apr 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford You don’t have to feel “The Bern” to root for Sanders in the primaries, nor must you be a white supremacist to hope that Trump wins the GOP contest. Both campaigns have the potential to fracture the duopoly electoral system that “ensnares the whole U.S. electoral…
Farooque Chowdhury
Panama Papers: Denials Expose More Than the Original Exposé
13 Apr 2016
by Farooque Chowdhury The leak once again reveals how states collude with private interests to protect the criminality of the powerful. How could journalists uncover the Panama Papers while states which carry on surveillance on millions of people, listen to billions of phone calls and read billions…
Dr. Matthew Quest
Without Enchanted Followers: Eusi Kwayana’s Reconsideration of the Jonestown Fiasco
13 Apr 2016
by Matthew Quest The tragedy of Jonestown was not just an American saga. Most renditions of the Jonestown story tend “to obscure a sincere (but failed) effort at having faith in working toward a new society by one select group of American visitors to Guyana, while papering over the cooperative and…
Bill Quigley
No Lawyers? No Jail. Judge Demands Constitution Be Respected in Louisiana Public Defender Catastrophe
13 Apr 2016
by Bill Quigley The state that incarcerates more people per capita than any other is in blatant violation of the Constitution for failing to provide defendants with an adequate – or any – legal defense. So says a (Black) New Orleans judge, who has ordered the release of defendants that have…
Mark P. Fancher
O.J.’s Journey From Super Nigger to Bad Nigger
13 Apr 2016
by Mark P. Fancher In hindsight, the OJ Simpson trial – the real one, not the flurry of recent documentaries – marked a watershed for White America and its privileges. It was a time when a wealthy former super nigger with a “smooth-talking” Black lawyer won acquittal in the death of two whites over…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Why Self-Defense Must be Put Back into the Movement Equation
13 Apr 2016
by Danny Haiphong All peoples have the inherent right to self-defense against the violence of their oppressors. “From the first African slave rebellion in the colonies to the formation of the Black Panther Party, self-defense has been an essential component of the struggle for self-determination.”…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
$campaigns & $elections
13 Apr 2016
by BAR's poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner This week the poet briefly contextualizes the candidates and campaigns of the capitalist parties running for the White House in 2016.