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Colin Jenkins
Why the Rich Must be Expropriated
20 Jul 2016
by Colin Jenkins From the very beginning of the system, "racialized chattel slaves were the capital that made capitalism." The author traces the origins of the present day imperialist order, and concludes that “all personal wealth in the world has been built on a foundation of murder, extortion,…
Steve Martinot
The “Fundamentalism” in Police Operations
20 Jul 2016
by Steve Martinot Police thinking resembles the circular reasoning of religious zealotry. “Against the pretense of an equality of persons, or equality of races, or a diversity of cultures, the police counterpose the law, but a law that has become the police as a law unto themselves through their…
Ken Peeples
“Black-on-Black Violence”: Red-Herrings and Mass Gaslighting
20 Jul 2016
by Ken Peeples In the U.S., homicide is largely segregated by race – except when police are involved. But “white-on-white violence is almost never discussed,” despite the fact that most mass killings involve white perpetrators and mainly white victims. There is a very important difference between…
Mark P. Fancher
AFRICOM: Ready to Sabotage the Revolution
20 Jul 2016
by Mark P. Fancher The U.S. Military Command in Africa, AFRICOM, is the West’s standing army on the continent, guardian of multinational corporations and the natural and human resources that keep the North America and Europe on top. AFRICOM claims its mission is “anti-terrorism” – a catch-all, “…
Paul Street
Micah Xavier Johnson and Gavin Long: Seventeen Reasons
20 Jul 2016
by Paul Street After having for centuries treated Black people, especially young Black men, as existential dangers to the (white) nation, U.S. rulers act surprised that the day of the Black American Sniper has dawned. There’s nothing complex about Gavin Long and Micah Johnson’s actions. They wanted…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Gavin Long’s Last Words
20 Jul 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley So-called “responsible” Black folks may dismiss the young Black veteran gunmen of Dallas and Baton Rouge as deranged, but who are really “the crazy ones” – those who believe the racist system will change under the pressure of peaceful protest,…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ready Or Not, the Black Movement Enters a New Stage
21 Jul 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Black youth in the U.S. have crossed a kind of Rubicon, and the rulers are fearful — and so are their henchmen in the Black Misleadership Class. “When a Black beauty queen calls Micah Johnson ‘a martyr,’ we know that the movement’s values have been internalized by…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Obama and Clinton Collude to Ram TPP through Lame Duck Congress
20 Jul 2016
by Ann Garrison and John Banister Barack Obama may get one last chance to arrive at a “Grand Bargain” with the Republicans, in the lame duck session of Congress following the November election. That’s when he might push a vote for his Trans Pacific Partnership corporate rights legislation, which…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Thanks, Mama Harriet
20 Jul 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner The finest young people of every era are always those most impatient with injustice. It is they who are the heirs of Harriet Tubman and the maroon leader Zumbi dos Palmares. On our behalf, the poet acknowledges them.
Colin Todhunter
Britain’s Scramble for Africa: The New Colonialism
26 Jul 2016
by Colin Todhunter Britain’s colonial empire may have passed into history, but the UK’s neocolonial grip strangles much of African, devouring the continent’s resources and leaving little of the profits behind. Most African countries are not even stakeholders in the companies that mine their land. “…