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Arun Gupta
The Financial Firm That Cornered the Market on Jails
03 Aug 2016
by Arun Gupta The financial services industry is ruthlessly exploiting America’s vast captive market of jail and prison inmates with fee-heavy cards. Corporate vultures have seized market shares in every sector of the prison gulag. JP Morgan Chase “has a ‘lock’ on the Federal Bureau of…
David Sole
Rev. Pinkney’s Appeal Denied
03 Aug 2016
by David Sole A Michigan court ruled that Rev. Edward Pinkney’s political activism was enough motive to send him to prison for 2 ½ to 10 years charges. By such warped judicial reasoning, courts “can condemn every political activist in the country to be guilty of any political crime just for being…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Stop Trump Fundamentalists Can Bite Me
03 Aug 2016
by Ann Garrison The duopoly electoral system causes shrinkage of the American mind, compelling otherwise intelligent people to conclude that critics of corporate Democrats must be supporters of Donald Trump. The author, who will vote Green, has a rhetorical question for the afflicted. “You trust…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Obama Legacy Part V: Waging War on Civil Liberties
03 Aug 2016
by Danny Haiphong Liberals and leftists supported candidate Barack Obama largely because they thought he would be good for civil liberties. Instead, Obama introduced “indefinite military detention without trial or cause,” increased wiretaps 34 percent in his first two years, imprisoned more…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Baltimore: Impunity for the Police and Prison for the Resisters
03 Aug 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka President Obama’s justice department intervened to bring the full weight of federal law down on those that resisted killer cops in the streets. “The real ‘America’ is the America of Baltimore where six cops escape accountability for severing the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump, Russia and Democratic Lies
03 Aug 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The real story was that the Democrats rigged the primary elections. The manufactured story that has dominated corporate media is that Russia may hack the U.S. elections and Donald Trump is a “fascist” guilty of “treason” for failing to demonize…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Coalition Declares Black Self-Determination Back on the Agenda
03 Aug 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two generations of “Black social disintegration, economic retrogression and political confusion” ushered in through the collaboration of the Black Misleadership Class, “Black people have rediscovered and revived the Black Radical Tradition, with self-…
Ramor Ryan
Anatomy of a Neoliberal Racist Killing Machine
10 Aug 2016
by Ramor Ryan The U.S. exports to the rest of the world an industrial-strength strategy of policing that is rooted “in counterinsurgency campaigns.” The “Broken Windows” philosophy of policing dramatically expands the number of people “churned through the criminal justice system,” more deeply…
Eric Draitser
Hillary Clinton and the Big (Neoliberal) Lie
10 Aug 2016
by Eric Draitser Although she tries to deny it, “Hillary Clinton has for more than two decades been one of the loudest and most resolute voices championing neoliberalism and free trade.” Beginning with NAFTA, Clinton has been the High Priestess of the Church of Free Trade and Neoliberalism, a…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Obama Legacy Part VI: The Destruction of Libya and the US military Invasion of Africa by Danny Haiphong
10 Aug 2016
In his two terms in office, President Obama has put nearly the whole of Africa under U.S. military sway. He was the first U.S. president to bomb an African country -- Libya, whose “nationalized oil reserves and plans to use gold as the chief reserve currency in Africa threatened US capitalist…