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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Police State Fascism
10 Aug 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black people live under a fascist system, whether the occupant of the White House is a “fascist” or not. For Blacks, the “rule of law” does not exist. “It matters not whether a victim complies, or has hands up, or is armed, or is unarmed, or…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Hillary Stuffs Entire U.S. Ruling Class Into Her Big, Nasty Tent
11 Aug 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford While Democrats scream “fascist” at Donald Trump, actual fascists with real histories of mass murder at home and abroad gather in Hillary Clinton’s “Big Tent” Democratic Party. The melding of GOP and Democratic fat cats is “the most dramatic effect of the breakdown…
FikreJesus Amahazion
Politics of Fear: The Crisis in Ethiopia and the Role of the International Community
17 Aug 2016
by Fikrejesus Amahazion A massive government crackdown on protestors and dissidents is underway in Ethiopia, but the international community has turned a blind eye to this reign of terror. The first, and possibly most far-reaching and effective, response by the international community should be to…
Ronnie Kasrils
Snakes Alive! The ANC is on a Slippery Slope
17 Aug 2016
by Ronnie Kasrils The unpalatable reality the ANC needs to confront, if it is to mend itself -- and there are those who maintain the rot is too far gone -- is that the strategic initiative which it had in abundance in 1994 has passed to the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Fighters…
Jeff Cohen
TV Networks Should Open Up The Presidential Debates
17 Aug 2016
by Jeff Cohen The two-party duopoly not only have a stranglehold on the voting process, they control the televised debates that dominate the political conversation, despite the fact that only the barest majority of Americans are Democrats or Republicans. The TV networks should include all four…
Bakari Kitwana
Arresting Development: The State Targets Activists to Derail a Movement
17 Aug 2016
by Bakari Kitwana The movement against police terror is spawning another generation of political prisoners, many of them virtually unknown and without organizational support. “Unknown numbers of people have slipped through the cracks and are still sitting in jail” in Ferguson, Baltimore and other…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Obama Legacy Part VII: The Deporter in Chief
17 Aug 2016
by Danny Haiphong Donald Trumps racist rants against immigrants have overshadowed the fact that “more undocumented immigrants have been deported under Obama's rule than any other in history” -- and that Hillary Clinton “has championed militarization and the deportation of Central American…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Liberal Hate for Stein and Baraka
17 Aug 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley So-called liberals and “progressives” have caught the Mad Democratic Cow Disease, frothing at the mouth at those who would resist the coronation of the corporate warmonger, Hillary Clinton. They flail with McCarthyite fury at both Donald Trump…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Operation Kool-Aid: 2yr Long PSYOP AKA $campaigns & $elections…
17 Aug 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner In the long presidential campaign, a racist clown can run a war criminal can win. With eighty-some days till election day our poet in residence surveys the electoral landscape.
The Real News Network
Rebellion in Milwaukee – The Worst City in the Country to be a Black Man
17 Aug 2016
BAR executive Glen Ford on The Real News Network No one should be surprised at the furious community response to the shooting death of a young Black man by Milwaukee police, this weekend. Glen Ford reports that Wisconsin has the highest Black male incarceration rate in the country, and Milwaukee…