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20 Killed In Protests Demanding Congo President Step Down and Respect Term Limits
22 Dec 2016
by the Real News Network
The Real News Network
Greg Palast on Why Clinton Didn't Push for Michigan Recount - Part 1 of 2
22 Dec 2016
by the Real News Network
The Real News Network
Greg Palast on Why Clinton Didn't Push for Michigan Recount - Part 2 of 2
22 Dec 2016
by the Real News Network
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
War Abroad, Equality at Home? Bernie Sanders and the Sandernistas
29 Dec 2016
by Ann Garrison Is there such a thing as a War Progressive? “Jeffrey St. Clair has tracked the sordid trail of every pro-war stance that Senator Sanders took and every pro-war vote he cast on the way to his failed crusade for equality at home and war abroad.” However, St. Clair has praise for…
Ron Jacobs
Democracy is Gone in the USA
29 Dec 2016
by Ron Jacobs The CIA’s Phoenix assassination program slaughtered 50,000 Vietnamese, and was considered a new benchmark in international state terror. Today, the U.S. conducts a globalized kind of Phoenix Program, using high- and low-tech methods of covert and overt mass murder. Douglas Valentine’…
Tianna Paschel
Walter Rodney and the Racial Underpinnings of Global Inequality
29 Dec 2016
by Tianna Paschel While inequality has become a topic of increased popularity and politicization in recent years, most of the attention has focused on how 1% own an increasingly large share of the world’s wealth, rather than on inequalities between nations. In a global context in which national…
Spencer Woodman
A Quarter of Florida's Black Citizens Can't Vote. A New Referendum Could Change That.
29 Dec 2016
by Spencer Woodman A Florida court may allow the voters to throw out the state’s lifetime ban against allowing convicted felons to vote – a prohibition that had disenfranchised nearly a quarter of the Black population. The court’s approval clears the way for a grassroots coalition “to move to the…
Dana Bazelon
This Cruel New Policy Makes It Near Impossible for Kids to See Their Incarcerated Parents
29 Dec 2016
by Dana Bazelon Adding yet another cruelty to the world’s most monstrous system of mass incarceration, federal prison officials restrict visitation to immediate family members. Yet, relatively few prisoners are legally married. “The practical impact of the policy for most of my clients,” says the…
Jon Reynolds
Delusions Shattered: How Democrats Lost Claims to a Moral High Ground by Ignoring Obama's Transformation Into Bush
29 Dec 2016
by Jon Reynolds In defeat, Democrats now cast themselves as defiant “fascist-fighters” and saviors of civil society. Yet, they were silent or supportive when Barack Obama spent eight years committing the same crimes as George Bush, and adding his own atrocities to the record. Donald Trump’s victory…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Message to the Movement Against Donald Trump: Let the Empire Die
03 Jan 2017
by Danny Haiphong The Democrats are attacking from the Right, desperate to stir up war fever. “The destabilization of Russia is critical to finance capital's agenda of self-enrichment from the chaos of political catastrophe.” When Wall Street demands that the country be put on a war footing, the…