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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Democrats Attack Trump from the Right
25 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democratic Party has devolved into complete irrationality and irrelevance, sucking its Black followers into the idiotic abyss. “Years of capitulation to corporate interests and to Barack Obama have killed black politics,” and turned the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump Will Probably Dump Police Department “Consent Decrees”
26 Jan 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump is unlikely to approve of any more “consent decrees” to “reform” police departments. But this will be no great loss. As practiced, “the scheme very much resembles former Attorney General Holder’s coddling of criminal banks, under which the offending…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Imagine a Women’s March Against Black Genocide and the Struggle of Tennie White
25 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo The myth of Barack Obama’s concern for Black people masks the reality of his administration’s cynical service to corporate criminals. Tennie White, a heroic whistleblower, was railroaded to prison by Obama’s EPA for defending her community from…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Cory Booker, Corporate Hooker: The Perfect Establishment Opposition to Donald Trump
26 Jan 2017
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon After losing the White House to the most unpopular president in history, Democrats have lots to say, but even more to avoid saying, lest they expose themselves as every bit as much corporate tools as their Republican foes. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is…
The Real News Network
Glen Ford Says Democrat-CIA McCarthyism Threatens Planet Earth
26 Jan 2017
Thomas C. Mountain
An Afar Wedding in Eritrea
01 Feb 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain Eritrea, a small African nation on the Red Sea, is surrounded by sectarian religious strife, yet maintains a remarkable amity and unity among its various peoples. Roughly half Christian and half Muslim, Eritrea shuns military alliances and economic dependency on the West. To…
Werner Lange
A Lesson on Peace in our Troubled Trump Times from W.E.B. DuBois
01 Feb 2017
by Werner Lange In the last chapter of his brilliant life, W.E.B. DuBois was a leading anti-war activist. At the height of McCarthyism, DuBois and his comrades in the Peace Information Center were denounced as “traitors” and “anti-American” for declaring that first-use of nuclear weapons is a crime…
Patrick Bond
The State of Revolutionary Movements and Marxism in South Africa
01 Feb 2017
by Patrick Bond In South Africa, even the neoliberal Black ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), speaks the rhetorical language of Marxism. The ANC is challenged by NUMSA, the continent’s biggest union, which vows to launch a United Front for genuine socialism, while the Economic…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Inauguration Amnesia: The Context of Obama's Failure to Pardon US Political Prisoners
01 Feb 2017
by Danny Haiphong Barack Obama commuted the sentences of a few political prisoners, but pardoned none, leaving countless activists behind bars on trumped up federal charges. The very existence of political prisoners is not only a crime, but also a product the “rise of the mass incarceration…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Why White Folks Love Hidden Figures
01 Feb 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo Hidden Figures is based on a vintage Hollywood formula of uncomplaining black victims and white saviors. “The idea of glamorizing the fact that these women didn’t complain plays into the narrative that ‘free will’ was involved in their decision,” when…