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Jamie Kalven
Watch Your Back: How Chicago Cops Enforce Their Code of Silence
12 Oct 2016
by Jamie Kalven The conventional wisdom is that Chicago’s Blue Code of Silence operates at the lower ranks, on the cop-to-cop level, and has now been exposed to the public glare. But the weight of evidence from key cases shows that corruption reaches to the highest levels of police department…
Chris Hedges
The New Slave Revolt
12 Oct 2016
by Chris Hedges Severe state repression and a near-total press blackout make it impossible to determine how many prisoners are continuing the national work strike that began on September 9th. The core demand is an end to prison slavery: the forced low-or-no-wage employment extracted from inmates. “…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Ruling Class Food Fights: Trump vs. Bushes
12 Oct 2016
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo It would be nice if the old adage, “What goes around, comes around” applied to the larger world of gross inequality and race and class oppression. However, the ruling classes do have the resources to exact pay-back within their ranks. Donald Trump may…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Anti-Trump Hypocrisy
12 Oct 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley By immensely helpful coincidence, Donald Trump’s 11-year-old sexist rant tape surfaced on the same day that Wikileaks revealed Hillary Clinton’s support for hemispheric “free trade” and cuts in Social Security. But Trump’s campaign may be doomed…
Mark P. Fancher
Will U.S. Troops Become the Ethiopian Government’s Thugs?
12 Oct 2016
by Mark P. Fancher Ethiopia’s authoritarian regime, dominated by elites of the Tigrayan ethnic group, faces growing protest by the Oromo and Amhara people, who together make up the majority of the population. Even the U.S. admits that the regime is a serious violator of human rights, yet the U.S.…
Thomas C. Mountain
Eritrea; The African Cuba
12 Oct 2016
by Thomas C. Mountain Eritrea and Cuba have a great deal in common. Both are relatively small countries attempting to build socialism in the crosshairs of imperialist embargoes, sanctions and constant military threats. In both nations, the basic means of production “belong to the people,…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Left-Wing Paralysis and the Decay of Lesser Evil Politics
12 Oct 2016
by Danny Haiphong Lesser-evilism has rendered the U.S. Left incapable of resisting the forces of imperial war and bankster rule when they come in the form of Democrats. “What is most important is not where the Democratic Party and Republican Party differ, but how both parties work in…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Apocalypse Hillary
13 Oct 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump is a dead racist walking; there’s no reason for “progressives” to vote for Clinton for fear of Trump. But everyone “should be terrified of Hillary Clinton getting the kind of landslide that she will interpret as a mandate for war with Russia.” Even…
The Real News Network
The "Ferguson Effect" and Minimizing Demands for Police Reform
13 Oct 2016
The "Ferguson Effect" and Minimizing Demands for Police Reform by the Real News Network
Horace G. Campbell
Why East Africa Should Reject an Economic Deal with Europe
19 Oct 2016
by Horace G. Campbell Europe is in crisis, and yet countries in East Africa are ready to sign on a poorly understood trade agreement with the EU whose overall impact will be disastrous for years to come. The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will favor trade in the direction of Europe and stunt…