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Caleb Maupin
The Oil Siege Is Over, “The Cartel” Looks East
14 Dec 2016
by Caleb T. Maupin The western-backed collapse of oil prices has abated, and most of the targeted governments are still standing, partly because China has not cooperated with the siege. “The intention with the drop (siege) was to put Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Ecuador, and Bolivia out of business.”…
Arnold August
Fidel’s Legacy to the World on Theory and Practice
14 Dec 2016
by Arnold August People who know nothing about history or politics try to frame Fidel Castro as a stereotypical doctrinaire communist. The opposite is true: Castro has been described as “the anti-dogmatist par excellence.” He had an extraordinary ability to link theory and practice “like no other…
Ajamu Nangwaya
Can the Black Panthers Offer Jamaicans Lessons on Checking Police Violence?
14 Dec 2016
by Ajamu Nangwaya The Caribbean is the source of many voices of liberation -- Franz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Kwame Toure, Bob Marley -- but Jamaica, in particular, might do well to study the experience of the Black Panther Party, which began as an armed cop-watch program. Tivoli Gardens, where police…
Shea Howell
Trump’s Education Pick Will Continue Chartered Destruction of Detroit Schools
14 Dec 2016
by Shea Howell A fabulously rich white woman who has never been a public school parent or student -- and who seems to despise public education – has been tapped for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos is largely to blame for the fact that 80 percent of Michigan charter schools are for-profit. She…
Samir Amin
The Election of Donald Trump and the Implosion of Liberalism
14 Dec 2016
by Samir Amin Trump’s victory signals the inevitable implosion of the liberal order. This will pave the way for construction of the alternative, which comprises: at the national level, the abandonment of liberal economic management for the benefit of sovereign projects, giving rise to social…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
A Lesson from Standing Rock
14 Dec 2016
by Danny Haiphong There have been very few people’s victories under the Obama administration. His corporate policies have prevailed mainly by default, due largely to the failure of progressives to confront the First Black President. “The anti-war movement has been buried in the Democratic Party…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Fighting for Southern Human Rights
14 Dec 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The South, where more than half of the Black U.S. population lives, has based its economic appeal on the stinginess of its social safety net, the relative poverty of its people, and the savagery of its criminal justice system. Capitalism truly…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Corporate Democrats Stir Up War Fever Against Russia to Turn Election
15 Dec 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The orchestrators of the anti-Russian war hysteria “have shown over the past several weeks that they are willing, and even eager, to bring down the whole edifice of U.S. social and political ‘checks and balances’ -- freedom of speech and other civil liberties -- to…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Red Alert
14 Dec 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Now that Democrats are practically out of office, corporate donors are sponsoring empty spectacles of their own design, including another Climate March.
This Is Hell
Don't believe the Russia hype: Who profits from the new Red Scare?
21 Dec 2016
Don't believe the Russia hype: Who profits from the new Red Scare? by our friends at This Is Hell Radio It's an old habit for us. We inflated the threat of Russia for years and years to justify spending untold billions on the military, and that went away when the Soviet Union fell apart. But now…