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Pascal Robert
Why America Deserves Donald Trump as President
28 Sep 2016
by Pascal Robert Trump is “simply a political manifestation of all America has ever been: arrogant, belligerent, dishonest, and motivated by sheer avarice.” The Democrats offer only “vapid identity politics” in which “Black, female, gay, and transgender comprador brothers and sisters of American…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
System Meltdown: How US Imperialism is Whitewashing Crisis on Multiple Fronts
28 Sep 2016
by Danny Haiphong The fantastically-timed new Census figures showing large income advances, based on recently altered measuring sticks, cannot mask the deep crisis afflicting capitalism and its political parties: the Republicans and Democrats. The decaying economic order produces gross inequalities…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Winnie Mandela Turns 80, Vows to lead Marikana Campaign
28 Sep 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the indomitable heroine of the South African freedom struggle, celebrated her 80th birthday surrounded by friends and enemies, including the once-revolutionary, now-capitalist Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Vote Green
28 Sep 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A vote for the Green Party is not a protest gesture -- it is a vote for a platform of peace, social justice and a livable planet, and against the Parties of Lies. The Democrats “continue to be seen as the antiwar party even as they use regime…
Paul Street
The Roots are in the System: Charlotte and Beyond
28 Sep 2016
by Paul Street Police violence provides the “spark” that draws crowds instantly to the streets, but apartheid and inequality are the “underlying tinder that fuels the fires of rage across Black America today.” It may also have “sunk in with millions of Black Americans that the symbolic election of…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Only WE Can Save US…
28 Sep 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner As the farcial and nightmarish presidential contest winds into its final month, we try to make sense of the senseless, and point to the only avenue of possible salvation...
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Hundreds of Cops Divert and Foil Thousands of Protesters Outside NY Presidential Debate
28 Sep 2016
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon While inside the debate moderator Lester Holt failed to ask questions about joblessness, medical care, student loans, police murder or mass incarceration, New York police outside the debate showed the world how to suppress free speech with a soft hand,…
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Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Answers Debate Questions in Real Time
29 Sep 2016
Green Party's Jill Stein Answers Debate Questions in Real Time 2016 Presidential Debates
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Great Debate That Never Was
29 Sep 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If the Green Party’s Jill Stein had been allowed in this week’s presidential debate, it would have transformed the discussion and altered the race. That’s why Democrats and Republicans kept it a duopoly-only affair. “The only circumstances in which either Trump or…
Emily Williams and William Minter
Making Violence Visible: From #BlackLivesMatter to #StoptheBleeding Africa
04 Oct 2016
by Emily Williams and William Minter The violence plaguing Africa remains far too invisible to most Americans and the world. Unlike the pillage of Africa in earlier periods of the slave trade and colonial rule, illicit financial transactions are most often hidden from public view. They happen…