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Paul Bermanzohn
“Fake News” Crisis Covers Deeper Crisis of Legitimacy
25 Jan 2017
by Paul C. Bermanzohn The deepening crisis of an illegitimate system that only serves the rich has caused a section of the ruling class to charge a sitting president -- one of their own! -- with the political crime of illegitimacy. The “fake news” imbroglio is phony excuse for keeping the United…
Good Journalism Requires Openness to Foreign Sources of Information
25 Jan 2017
by Steve Cunningham  Since when has journalistic ethics prohibited accepting accurate and valuable information from foreign sources? Wikileaks has done the American public a great service by exposing corruption among high officials, including a would-be president, and in the workings of a major…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Women’s March in Washington D.C., as Broadcast
25 Jan 2017
by Ann Garrison If you watched it on TV, the Women’s March on Washington seemed to be a Democratic Party, Hillary-Is-My-President affair. “It was all about protection and equal opportunity for women and all racial and religious minorities, but that didn’t include protection from predatory…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Cuba and Our Common Future
25 Jan 2017
by Danny Haiphong With the Left in the U.S. in such obvious disarray, it is more critical than ever to examine the experience of the Cuban revolution. “It was power in the hands of the working class and oppressed that gave Cuba the ability to assist national liberation struggles in Angola…
Kali Akuno
Build and Fight: Beyond Trump and the Limitations of the United Front
25 Jan 2017
by Kali Akuno and Doug Norberg At this time of great crisis, there are fevered calls for the Left to forge a “united front.” However, “these calls rarely take into account the inequality or lack of political parity of the ‘uniting’ forces,” or the difference between strategic alliances and the…
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