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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump is the Less Effective Evil
01 Feb 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Donald Trump’s predecessors, Bush and Obama, paved the way for President Chito’s persecution of people from Syria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, and Iraq, all of which “have been attacked with military action, proxy wars and sanctions.”…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Ancestral Thoughts, Aloud…
01 Feb 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner The first full week of the Trumpacolypse behind us, our poet consults the ancestors...
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
If Americans Truly Cared About Muslims, They Would Stop Killing Them by the Millions
02 Feb 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Americans welcome only token numbers of people from countries devastated by U.S. wars of aggression. Donald Trump’s current ban on travelers affects nations that were already targeted by President Obama, “a perfect example of the continuity of U.S. imperial policy…
Solomon Comissiong
Obama & Trump/Democrats & Republicans: Exposing the Similarities to Break Dependence on the Corporate Political Parties
08 Feb 2017
by Solomon Comissiong “Many who voted for Hillary Clinton, and who are now protesting, would have never protested her actual imperialist legacy, had she been elected.” The same goes for Obama supporters. Democrats and Republicans are joined in their subservience to corporate masters, and to…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Canada Out of NATO! Québec City Murders of Muslims Rooted in War on Terror
08 Feb 2017
by Ann Garrison Canadians demonstrated in Ontario, to expressed both their revulsion to the private terror of the man that murdered six Muslims in Quebec City and their opposition to Canada’s complicity in U.S. state terror against the Muslim world. These U.S.-led wars are designed to steal…
Yash Tandon
It’s Time for an African Politics of Resistance and Solidarity
08 Feb 2017
by Yash Tandon The Trump phenomenon points to a civilizational shift; namely, the slow, painful demise of the Western Empire. If this shift breaks down the European Union, dismantles NATO, weakens the Empire’s financial control over the global South, and opens a space for a new moral and political…
Garza, of Movement4BlackLives: Our Cynicism Will Not Build a Movement. Collaboration Will
08 Feb 2017
by Alicia Garza Before she decided to take part in the Women’s March on the nation’s capital, the author was “conflicted” about the project. Like others, she wondered “where were all of these white people while our people are being killed in the streets, jobless, homeless, over incarcerated, under…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Undressed Empire: An Analysis of the First Weeks of the Trump Era
08 Feb 2017
by Danny Haiphong Contradictions abound in the mass protests against Donald Trump’s whirlwind of proclamations. While Trump's executive order banning many Muslims should be categorically rejected, we must also reject “the Democratic and Republican parties for creating the conditions…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Apples Don’t Fall Far from Trees: The Nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
08 Feb 2017
by EPA Editor and Columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo If you think President Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, is a raving right-winger, check out his mother. Ann Gorsuch’s administration of the Reagan era EPA was “marked by sharp budget cuts, in-fighting with career civil…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: "Resist Trump, Resist the Democrats"
08 Feb 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Any “resistance” to Trump that allies itself with Democrats, is futile. The Democrats are “unprincipled scoundrels” who “have no desire to move away from their corporate sugar daddies.” If the same people that now declare themselves foes of…