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Will Lead Pipe Crisis Be The Excuse For More Water Privatizations?
13 Apr 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Barack, Hillary and the Libya Crime
13 Apr 2016
It took two warmongering politicians to unleash the “shit storm” that the U.S. created in Libya: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Yet, Clinton, the number two player in the aggression, takes all the weight, while Obama acts as if he was nowhere near the scene of the war crime. Obama takes no…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bill Clinton Insults Blacks in Order to Build Hillary’s “Big Tent” Party
14 Apr 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Bill Clinton’s premeditated assault on Black Lives Matter was part of the strategy to woo White Republican voters to his wife’s “big tent” campaign, in November. Bill jumped the gun, itchy for the Democrats to make their classic rightward shift. He and Hillary…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Bernie Sanders Has His Plan B. What's Yours?
14 Apr 2016
With a crushing Clinton lead in super-delegates it will take a string of miracles for Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination. Little children and true believers relying on miracles don't need a Plan B, but Sanders has one. If he doesn't win the nomination, Bernie has…
Sam Loewenberg and Allison Shelley
Can Cuban Medicine Help Solve American Inequality?
20 Apr 2016
by Sam Loewenberg and Allison Shelley Cuba, despite its poverty, has achieved its goal of becoming a medical superpower and a model for the world to follow. To date, 134 U.S. citizens have graduated from Cuban medical schools, with 50 more currently in residency. They get a free, humanitarian…
Chris Hedges
Hundreds Arrested in Washington’s “Democracy Spring”
20 Apr 2016
by Chris Hedges The corporate media has staged a blackout of massive protests against the rule of the rich, involving “the largest number of arrests at the Capitol in decades” – just one more example that the nation is in the grips of a “corporate coup d’état.” This “Democracy Spring” sets the…
Farooque Chowdhury
Libya: Hillary’s War, the Empire’s Mistake
20 Apr 2016
There is no question that Hillary Clinton was the main culprit in the destruction of Libya. However, it was the Empire’s war, not Hillary’s. She was simply the chief instigator in the Obama regime. One can also identify the Libya aggression as a part of Obama’s Africa War, which has claimed…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Was Libya a Mistake or a Planned Imperialist Catastrophe?
20 Apr 2016
The U.S.-led regime change in Libya failed to create a new regime, but did succeed in killing thousands of people and destroying the economy and infrastructure of Africa’s most prosperous society. “Imperialism’s Libya debacle ignited chaos throughout the region that it can no longer control.” Obama…
Linn Washington
Denying Discrimination: Clintonian Political Calculus and the Culture of Hooey
20 Apr 2016
by Linn Washington Jr. Bill Clinton has been talking B.S. – “hooey” – about race his entire career. At every political juncture, from his days as governor of Arkansas through his two terms as president and including his more recent “apologies” for his mass Black incarceration policies, “Slick…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Not Feeling the Bern
20 Apr 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democratic Party liberals that have rallied around Bernie Sanders see awesome meaning and world-shaking significance in their champion’s most mundane actions and mealy-mouth statements. It’s easy to root for anyone that runs against Clinton…