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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Georgetown Should Pay for Slavery
25 May 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If ever there was a clear path to reparations for the descendants of slaves, it is in compensation to the progeny of the 272 men and women sold South to save the Jesuit school that became Georgetown University. The institution’s $1.5 billion…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Crime “Prediction”: The Algorithms of Racist Injustice
25 May 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Mass Black incarceration wound up ensnaring too many white people in the gulags, bringing forth calls from within the establishment for “reform” to spare those undeserving of imprisonment. Digital science came to the rescue. “The U.S. criminal justice system…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Seats on the 2016 Democratic Platform Committee Are NOT a "Political Revolution"
26 May 2016
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Sanders campaign named Cornel West, and 4 others to the Democratic party 2016 platform committee. But platform promises to Democratic voters have always been worthless. Bill Clinton's 1992 platform promised inner city job programs, reinvestment of military…
Henry Makori
Kenya Needs a People’s Revolution
01 Jun 2016
by Henry Makori Kenya is ruled by a “deep state” beholden to comprador capitalists, foreign interests, and ethnic-based politicians. “Nearly everyday there are fresh reports of mysterious murders, threats or arrests of human rights defenders, journalists, student leaders, bloggers, whistleblowers,…
John Pilger
Silencing America as it Prepares for War
01 Jun 2016
by John Pilger The superpower that seeks to dominate the world won’t even discuss foreign policy in its national elections. Barack Obama has begun a “second cold war,” building more nukes than any other president. Hillary Clinton gets cash “from all but one of the world's ten biggest arms companies…
Lorenzo Johnson
Is There a Cure for Wrongful Convictions?
01 Jun 2016
by Lorenzo Johnson The author has spent almost 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He asks, “Why has our government yet to intervene when there have been record numbers of exonerations for the past two years?” Incarcerating the innocent is a crime. “The main reasons behind…
Ashton Rome
Building a Socialist Movement in the Bernie Moment
01 Jun 2016
by Ashton Rome Some leftist organizations are betting that lots of Bernie Sanders supporters “will feel betrayed watching Sanders endorse a corporate Democrat,” Hillary Clinton, in Philadelphia this summer. Socialist Alternative, the party to which the author belongs, believes this election season…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Centrality of Africa in the Class Struggle to Come
01 Jun 2016
by Danny Haiphong Africa – it’s natural resources and the labor of its people – built the economies of the West, which has no intention of leaving. The West drains Africa of hundreds of billions each year, while strangling its nations in debt. The U.S. military occupies much of the continent. “The…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
South Africa’s EFF: Julius Malema and the Struggle to Continue the Revolution
01 Jun 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo For many South Africans, Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters are the answer to the neoliberal policies of the ruling African National Congress. The EFF charges that the ANC transitioned the country “from one phase of apartheid to another…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Who’s the Fascist?
01 Jun 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. public loves fascists; they elect them, constantly. Donald Trump, who “says he would raise the minimum wage and stop the endless efforts at regime change,” is called a fascist by some. But Hillary Clinton “is happy to bomb Libya or…