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Ama Biney
What Should Reparations for Slavery Entail?
21 Dec 2016
by Ama Biney In the light of the former British Prime Minister’s dismissal of reparations, activists must push the debate further by detailing what reparations should entail. Fundamental to a reparations program must be the fact that we transform the system of capitalism which slavery gave birth to…
Michael Z. Muhammad
Sundiata Acoli – “They are Determined to Bury Him Alive”
21 Dec 2016
by Michael Z. Muhammad He will turn 80 in January, but a New Jersey parole board wants to keep Sundiati Acoli in prison another 15 years. Just two years ago, a panel of judges ordered the parole board to “expeditiously set conditions” for the release of the former Black Panther, arrested with…
Ezili Danto
Haitians Say “No” to the Imperialists and Their “Banana Man”
21 Dec 2016
by Èzili Dantò Five years ago, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imposed a criminal right-wing regime on the militarily occupied people of Haiti. Now the U.S. and its allies have rigged yet another Haitian presidential election. “The CIA and US government have been busy creating new gangsters…
Ron West
U.S. Corporate Media: Liar, Liar, with Pants on Fire
21 Dec 2016
by Ron West Among the multiplying fables and fake news eagerly disseminated by U.S. corporate media is the claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered the alleged hacking of U.S. Democrats. Sources within U.S. intelligence agencies are cited. Why anyone would believe anything out…
Norman Solomon
Under Amazon’s CIA Cloud: The Washington Post
21 Dec 2016
by Norman Solomon When the national political “newspaper of record” is owned by a business partner of the CIA, every word on its pages should be suspect. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is in financial bed with a cloak and dagger agency that tells lies for living, yet the public is expected to…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US Imperialism is at a Dead End, But Why?
21 Dec 2016
by Danny Haiphong Imperialism is stuck in a rut, and can’t get out. “Every time the imperialist system attempts to expand economically, the sheer impoverishment of the exploited classes ensures that such maneuvers will lead to a loss in the overall rate of profit.” War used to be the answer, but no…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Syria, Russia and American Desperation
21 Dec 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Legions of people will protest Donald Trump’s inauguration. The Democratic rank and file “are anxious about racism, immigration, Islamophobia, judicial appointees and voter suppression,” but their leaders have a different agenda. War Democrats…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Democratic and Republican Paths to Fascism
21 Dec 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The masks have come off, revealing the face of fascism among the Democrats. With War Fascism supreme in one party, and White Supremacist Fascism at the helm in the other (also warlike) party, it appears that “the winner of the 2016 election was the bipartisan,…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Grand Theft Electoral: Aborted Recount Effort Shows US Elections Are Broken, Recount-Proof and Audit-Proof
22 Dec 2016
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Before judges and state officials aborted it, the attempted recount initiated by Green Party candidate Jill Stein revealed and confirmed specific patterns of widespread interstate electoral tampering in the presidential election just past that zero in on black…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Oh, what a night…
21 Dec 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Our poet shares a scene from a late nite NYC subway ride home from this years' holiday party of the National Writers Union.