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Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Sporting News: The International Olympic Committee and FIFA as Corporate Rod and Gun Clubs
14 Sep 2016
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson The essence propaganda is not in the skill of the lies, or the slogans, but in the power to provide the context and interpretation of events, real and fictional. A guiltless president is impeached by a thoroughly corrupt legislature, while Olympic games provide the money…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Latin America at a Cross Roads: The Right's Resurgence
14 Sep 2016
by Danny Haiphong President Obama would like to count the fall of left-wing governments in Brazil and Argentina, and the weakening of the socialist government in Venezuela, as part of his “legacy.” He is a master of subversion. “The resurgence of the right-wing in recent years threatens to…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
South African School Girls provide leadership for the On-Going Revolution
14 Sep 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo and Siki Dlanga Refusing to straighten their hair or submit to white supremacist standards of beauty and comportment, 13 year-old South African Black schoolgirls braved police dogs and arrest to join a growing youth movement. Students have also…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Standing with Syria
14 Sep 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama has gotten a pass for almost eight years from self-styled anti-war elements that back his proxy war against Syria. Phony anti-warriors blame the Syrian government for resisting jihadist head-hunters in the pay of Washington and…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Feet Won't Fail You Now: Vote With Them!
14 Sep 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Whatchu do on election day might be important, our poet affirms, but it's by no means everything. Changing the world calls for a lot more stuff before, during, after and often enough in spite of elections, candidates and campaigns.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Clinton’s Basket of “Deplorables”
15 Sep 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Hillary Clinton should include herself in her basket of “deplorables.” She’s got “racism” and "sexism” covered through her endorsement of mass Black incarceration and welfare “reform.” Killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Syria surely qualifies as…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Journey to No FEAR: 9/11
14 Sep 2016
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo The author and her colleagues were congratulating themselves on the Capitol building steps, for their victory over injustice in government service. :As we started moving toward the Capitol steps, a large plane flew over the building—so low that I…
Leonida Odong
Climate Change and Human Rights: A Call for International Solidarity
21 Sep 2016
by Leonida Odongo Overproduction and overconsumption in the rich, northern parts of the planet have “imbalanced the world as far as climate change is concerned.” The poor of the Global South fight for mere survival, with the vulnerable populations losing the fight. “In the past we used to have…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Uganda: A Brilliant Genocide
21 Sep 2016
by Ann Garrison The U.S. deploys demons to justify imperial conquest. In central Africa, the demon’s name is Joseph Kony, the guerilla who served as an excuse for Yoweri Museveni, the dictator of Uganda, to commit genocide against the Acholi people, with U.S. support. Museveni “drove nearly two…
Lindsey E. Jones
Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense
21 Sep 2016
by Lindsey E. Jones Recent scholarship in the history of black women and the carceral state illustrates the extent to which systems of criminal justice and law enforcement have both historically failed to protect black female victims of domestic violence and criminalized black women who rise up in…