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Norman Richmond
The Untold Story of the Black Radical Tradition in Canada
11 Jan 2017
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali The author is a veteran of the Black political struggle on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, having emigrated to Canada in the Sixties. He points out the similarities -- and differences – in Black radical politics in the two countries. For example, early…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Journalism and Pornography: Real Crime is Always Organized
11 Jan 2017
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson Douglas Valentine latest study of the CIA shows him to be “an excellent history teacher” – which is high praise from the reviewer, an excellent teacher, himself. The CIA is a banditry on a huge scale, “invented not simply as an advisory and coordinating instrument for spying…
Mark P. Fancher
The New Black Maroons to America: “We Quit!”
11 Jan 2017
by Mark P. Fancher Just as slave runaways made common cause with Native Americans in resistance to white settlers, U.S. Blacks should reciprocate the solidarity offered by Cuba, Venezuela and Palestinians, as well as providing whatever assistance is possible to progressive and revolutionary forces…
Cornel West
Pity the Sad Legacy of Barack Obama
11 Jan 2017
by Cornel West One of the few Black public intellectuals to break with the First Black President early on, Dr. Cornel West notes that “those Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibility” for the impending Age of Trump. Obama ignored pleas to “break with Wall…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Awakening, Class Rebellion
11 Jan 2017
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and George Ciccariello-Maher “The Black movement has been and will continue to be the foundation for the emergence of other liberation movements” in the U.S., says Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, whose Black Awakening in Obama’s America has been described as “the most important…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Some Guidance on the Russia Question
11 Jan 2017
by Danny Haiphong Barack Obama, “has spent its last days in the White House laying the basis for World War, claiming that the Russian government had directly interfered in the 2016 elections.” The corporate media and the Democratic Party have joined in the hysteria, along with far too many so-…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Contradiction in the Time of Trump
11 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The cacophony of pre-inaugural madness is full of lies against Russia, wild exaggerations about Obama’s accomplishments, and a weird and shameful alliance of so-called “progressives” and the CIA. Anti-Trump protests turn out to be props for…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
As the Democrats Press for War, the Left Must Demand Peace and Social Transformation
11 Jan 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Democrats are whipping up war hysteria and “cynically seeking to harness people’s well-founded fears of Trump’s domestic policies in order to sabotage the possibility of a relaxation of international tensions.” Some folks have taken the bait. “Leftists that…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Who Owns the Movement, and Where Are They Taking It?
12 Jan 2017
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon As funders of the nonprofit industrial complex, the one percent of one percenters literally own what most of us call the movement. Last summer the “Ford Foundation and anonymous donors” pledged to invest $100 million to “strengthen the next generation of social…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
A Poet's Proposal for DT's Inauguration
10 Jan 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Word is that president-elect Donald Trump still has performance openings for next week's inaugural. In the selfless and noble spirit of public service, our poet kindly offers his own services, and anxiously awaits a response from Rump tower.