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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Sandernista Journey: An Epic Confrontation with Corporate Power, or a Slow Fade
20 Apr 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Will Bernie Sanders’ supporters “collapse from demoralization, or resolve to confront the corporate beast with ferocity” in Philadelphia and beyond? The real battle of 2016 is about the duopoly, which tells Blacks there is “no contradiction in being in the same…
The Real News Network
Margaret Kimberley on "The Quadrennial Duopoly Sham" and the Black Vote
20 Apr 2016
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Breathe the Bern…
20 Apr 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Our poet in residence muses upon the collective madness engendered by the quadrennial presidential election.
The Real News Network
Voting Rules and Big Unions Favored Clinton in New York Primary
20 Apr 2016
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda: Genocide Included Hutus Massacred by Kagame Forces
27 Apr 2016
by Ann Garrison The Rwandan Genocide is commemorated in Rwanda and at the United Nations as “the genocide against the Tutsi.” However, there is ample evidence that hundreds of thousands of Hutus, as well as Tutsis, died in the Rwandan massacres.
Peter Donatus
Ecocide in the Niger Delta
27 Apr 2016
by Peter Donatus The majority of refugees come from war and conflict zones, illegitimate states, areas of natural disasters and economically weak countries. In many cases, companies from the West destroy people’s livelihoods by acting ruthlessly. In Nigeria, the oil extraction and production…
Arnold August
Some Thoughts on Cuban Resistance to US Ideological/Political War
27 Apr 2016
by Arnold August What does it mean when American flags appear on the streets of Havana? Is President Obama winning his war against Cuban socialism by non-military means? “Obama confirmed once again that the US is dispensing with openly antagonistic tactics, in favor of diplomatic tactics that he…
Eric Draitser
Hillary Clinton’s Support Base as Bogus as US Democracy
27 Apr 2016
by Eric Draitser As some very perceptive men have written, the rich rule largely by “manufactured consent.” It turns out that much of Hillary Clinton’s consenting base of support is fictional: “the majority of her Twitter fans, and indeed her social media following in general, are completely fake…
Richard W. Behan
Black Lives Don’t Matter, Black Votes Do: the Racial Hypocrisy of Hillary and Bill Clinton
27 Apr 2016
by Richard W. Behan Seldom have a people given such huge support to a more duplicitous couple. Bill and Hillary Clinton have grown rich and powerful, largely on the strength of the Black vote. Yet, the Clintons are responsible for increased poverty and incarceration and much of Wall Street’s global…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Why Solidarity in the 21st Century Means Understanding Race and Class as One Entity, not Two
27 Apr 2016
by Danny Haiphong Capitalism is the scourge of the planet. “The basis of solidarity, then, should ultimately derive from an internationalist perspective. It means mutually working together with the peoples of the world in the struggle against the common enemy of imperialism.” Malcolm X understood…