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by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Obama Legacy Part 1: Profits for the Monopolies, Healthcare for Those Who Can Afford it
29 Jun 2016
by Danny Haiphong Barack Obama is busy packaging his “legacy” as the First Black President – which is a fact – and as a “progressive” – which is patently false. His supporters tout the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as his crowning achievement. However, “from its very roots, the ACA was destined to…
Netfa Freeman
Brexit: A Nail in the Coffin of Neo-colonialism in Africa
29 Jun 2016
by Netfa Freeman Brexit is cause for celebration for the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The European Union is the historical heir to the Berlin Conference of 1884 that divided the world into Euro-North American spheres of dominance. Europe has inflicted immense suffering on the rest of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Good News of Brexit
29 Jun 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In calling for the vote on BREXIT, the British guardians of the financial powers-that-be have shot themselves in all four feet. Trillions have been lost in money markets, “the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is on hold for…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Why Didn’t Black People Protest the Acquittal of Accused Freddy Gray Killer? An Interview with Carl Dix
29 Jun 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo News media outnumbered protesters after a Baltimore judge acquitted the cop charged with murdering Freddie Gray. The judge, the cop, the mayor, and the prosecutor are Black. “If Black people get positions of power in the system and use those…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Say Her Name
29 Jun 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner She's implacable, unmovable and inevitable. She's the Democratic candidate. Deal with it.
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Paris, Orlando and Turkey: Displacing the Narrative of Western Innocence
29 Jun 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Far from innocent, the U.S. is complicit in ISIS outrages through its longstanding “strategy to bolster Islamic jihadist forces working with and through Turkey, the Saudi’s, and other Gulf monarchs and repressive states, including Israel.” ISIS is America’s…
Pascal Robert
On The Fourth of July, Thank the Most Important Founding Father: Haiti’s Jean-Jacques Dessalines
06 Jul 2016
by Pascal Robert The United States owes a large portion of its continental size to Haitian freedom fighters that defeated Napoleon’s army at the turn of the 19th century. Had the Haitian’s not succeeded in liberating their island from the French, Napoleon’s New Orleans-based forces might have…
Eric Draitser
Whitewashing Libya: House Report on Benghazi Reveals Nothing, Hides Everything
06 Jul 2016
Republicans in the House “investigated” Hillary Clinton’s involvement in the Benghazi attacks for years, but ignored “the connection between the CIA facility and mission in Benghazi and the smuggling of arms and fighters from Libya to Syria.” The real crime is that “the US harnesses terrorism,…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Obama Legacy Part 2: Economic Policy Wall Street Could Count On
06 Jul 2016
by Danny Haiphong Barack Obama has been Wall Street’s ace in the hole his entire presidency. He waged war against Social Security, food stamps and other entitlements and doggedly pursued a “Grand Bargain” with Republicans. Bankers, his main constituency, “were given a get out of jail free card” –…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Republicans Reject Trump
06 Jul 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley For all intents and purposes, the establishment GOP has dumped Donald Trump and joined Hillary Clinton’s corporate presidential campaign. Trump “shows all the signs of being headed for defeat,” but the Democrats hope to pile up huge majorities…