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Leah Fried
In Chicago, Teachers and Black Lives Matter Activists Partner to Build a Bigger Movement
08 Nov 2016
When the Chicago Teachers Union goes on strike, it doesn’t walk alone; Movement 4 Black Lives organizations have their back. And, when young Black activists campaign against police terror, the teachers union is with them. When it comes to the school-to-prison pipeline, the teachers and Black Youth…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Clinton Is the Most Dangerous Person Alive – An Interview with Edward S. Herman
08 Nov 2016
by Ann Garrison The just-concluded election revealed as much about the corporate media, which has broken every rule of journalism to support Hillary Clinton, and the fraudulence of much of the American Left, which turns out to have no real problem with war or capitalism, than it did about the…
Bryan K. Bullock
Black American Anti-Imperialism: an Invisible Subject for the New York Times
08 Nov 2016
by Bryan K. Bullock To read the foreign policy pages of the New York Times is to enter a world of whiteness. “Whites are the only ones who are presumed to have an opinion on such issues that is worth mentioning.” Although Black America is the nation’s most anti-imperial constituency, foreign policy…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Margaret Flowers’ Retrospective on Running as a Green for the U.S. Senate
08 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo The major parties are more concerned with preserving their duopoly than with defeating each other. So-called “progressives” help preserve duopoly rule, failing “to understand that as long as they are complicit with the Democrats, they have no power.”…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Anatomy of Crisis and the Decline of US Empire
08 Nov 2016
by Danny Haiphong There are multiple dimensions to the crisis that afflicts U.S. imperialism. The latest election is evidence of a crisis of legitimacy for the ruling parties. Americans are estranged from a government that spies on every one its citizens – and on the rest of the world, too. “…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Dump the Democrats for Good
09 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Donald Trump, the white nationalist that claimed to oppose the corporate establishment, appears to have won the U.S. presidency. But, “even the victory of the openly bigoted Trump poses an opportunity to right our political ship.” The Democrats…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Tuesday Takeout
08 Nov 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Terror Tuesday is what the White House calls the basement meetings at which the First Black President profiles and targets individuals and groups of people for summary assassination anywhere from Somalia to Standing Rock. Before Donald Trump even assumes…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
America Might Not Deserve Trump, But Dems and Hillary Deserved To Lose
10 Nov 2016
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon President Donald Trump? How did such a thing happen? A competent and purposeful Clinton campaign should have beaten Donald Trump. How did Hillary Clinton and one-percenter Democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of certain victory?
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Democratic Debacle – The Day After
10 Nov 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The GOP won at the polls, but Black, brown and working class Democrats have been taking a beating from their own party for decades. “The Democratic Party has failed to deliver even small net increments of social justice to its base constituencies, always giving…
The Real News Network
There is Little in Obama's "Legacy" Worth Defending
16 Nov 2016
The Ford Report, on The Real News Network There is Little in Obama's "Legacy" Worth Defending