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Jon Jeter
ESPN’S Journal of Black Respectability Politics
07 Sep 2016
by Jon Jeter Michael Eric Dyson is up to his corporate tricks, this time in ESPN’s black-oriented web site The Undefeated. Dyson personifies the surrender of the Black middle class, in total synch with The Undefeated’s typical narratives “in which history is inert, racism exists only inasmuch as it…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Activists Owe No Apology for Solidarity with Palestinians
07 Sep 2016
by Darializa Avila Chevalier and Khury Petersen-Smith The Movement for Black Lives has voiced its unequivocal opposition to Israel’s genocidal policies in Palestine, prompting harsh attacks from Zionists. “That Zionist organizations are willing to reject the current battle for Black lives raging in…
Jeffrey Blankfort
Congressional Black Caucus: Deep in the Israel Lobby’s Pocket
07 Sep 2016
by Jeffrey Blankfort The Congressional Black Caucus is a bought-and-paid-for political ally of the planet’s last remaining apartheid state, Israel. “That the CBC has consistently, as a bloc, voted to send billions of US taxpayers dollars to provide weapons for a foreign government that oppresses…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Obama Legacy Part X: How Obama's Past Played a Role in the Insurgency of the Present
07 Sep 2016
by Danny Haiphong “Although austerity, war, and state repression are nothing new to US imperialism, the last eight years saw these modes of exploitation perfected under a Black Democrat.” President Obama saved the banks from the “pitchforks” of an enraged public, failed to protect Black lives…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Anthem of Banksters & War Profiteers
07 Sep 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Why does San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick choose to sit when the Star Spangled Banner is played before football games? Evidently he is one of many who know the real intention and import behind those bombs bursting in air...
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Young Blacks are Learning the Nature of the Duopoly Beast
08 Sep 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford While Hillary Clinton runs rightward at breakneck speed, attempting to suck every stray Republican into her nasty Big Tent, Black Democrats worry that young African Americans have rejected both major parties. Black Millennials, correctly, tend to see no difference…
David Swanson
Talk Nation Radio: Maurice Carney and Harvey Wasserman on Racism, Environmentalism, and Ending War
07 Sep 2016
Edward Curtin
The Façade of “Humanitarian Intentions” in Libya: A Review of Paolo Sensini’s Book
14 Sep 2016
“The US/NATO forces armed and supported all sorts of Islamist terrorists, including the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, led by a close Afghan associate of Osama bin Laden,” reports Paolo Sensini’s new book, with a forward by Cynthia McKinney. Sensini explores Washington’s motives for regime change…
Malcolm Harris
A Future History of the United States
14 Sep 2016
A book review by Malcolm Harris Ned and Constance Sublette’s book indicts the ruling class of the United States for the sins of slavery, the institution that made them rich. “In so doing they recast the [Founding] fathers as, first and foremost, members of their class.” Slavery was the key to…
Thomas C. Mountain
The African Union: The West’s Gendarme in Africa
14 Sep 2016
by Thomas C. Mountain The African Union has become an appendage and agent of western powers, providing foot soldiers for the imperial occupation of Africa. It’s headquarters country, Ethiopia, is itself a colonial power, still waging war against its former colony, Eritrea, while occupying and…