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Do Black Lives Matter to the Green Party? A Real News Interview with Bruce Dixon
17 Aug 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Yes, Obama and Clinton Created ISIS – Too Bad Trump Can’t Explain How It Happened
18 Aug 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Clinton supporters rejected out of hand Donald Trump’s charge that she and Barack Obama “created” the Islamic State -- and even Trump seemed to retreat from his statement. But, a solid case can be made that Obama and Clinton were, indeed, the "most valuable players…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Why Ajamu Baraka? Why Vice President? And Why the Green Party?
18 Aug 2016
What does the Green Party nomination of longtime Black Agenda Report contributing editor Ajamu Baraka for Vice President mean for the Green Party and the 2016 presidential election? Is he just a black face on the ticket, or is it really time to begin organizing in black and brown communities…
Bill Quigley
Katrina Pain Index 2016 by the Numbers: Race and Class Gap Widening
24 Aug 2016
by Bill Quigley When much of Black New Orleans was forced out of town in the wake of Katrina, the powers-that-be welcomed the opportunity to make the purge permanent. Today, “there are 95,625 fewer African Americans living in New Orleans now than in the 2000 Census.” The state of Louisiana “…
James Kilgore
Is This the Beginning of the End for the Private Prison Industry?
24 Aug 2016
by James Kilgore The Obama administration’s announcement that it would phase out private federal prisons is symbolically important, but will affect only a small slice of the nation’s huge incarcerated population. “Bodies will simply be relocated to existing federal prisons.” The biggest impact of…
Mumia Abu Jamal
Black August
24 Aug 2016
by Mumia Abu-Jamal August is a month to assess and build upon the legacy of Black people’s resistance to the armed repression of the U.S. state and its agents. The author, the nation’s best known political prisoner, wrote this article August 4, 1993.
Eric Draitser
Ajamu Baraka, “Uncle Tom,” and the Pathology of White Liberal Racism
24 Aug 2016
by Eric Draitser CNN’s Chris Cuomo acted as if Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka had committed a crime in calling President Obama an “Uncle Tom.” However, “even a cursory analysis of the term, the context in which it was used, and Cuomo’s intent in raising the issue, not only…
Bryan K. Bullock
Assuming the Risk of Blackness
24 Aug 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock The purported “risks” that police voluntarily take are transferred to their Black and brown victims, who have no practical protections. Legal settlements do not balance the scales. “They only serve to transfer the risk of policing onto the backs of tax payers or unto the…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Obama Legacy Part VIII: The War Summation
24 Aug 2016
by Danny Haiphong By any rational measure, Barack Obama has been the consummate War President, having “accelerated the growth of the US military state in all regions of the globe.” Obama “mastered the murderous art of drone warfare in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and surrounding nations to an…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Clinton and Powell War Criminal Charade
24 Aug 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Hillary Clinton, with help from her collaborators in corporate media, is trying to shift the blame for her email crimes to her predecessor, Colin Powell. The two exchanged private server notes at a “reunion of war criminals,” including Madeleine…