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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 Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Democrats Manipulate the Movement that Should Leave Them Behind
01 Feb 2017
by Ann Garrison Much of what passes for the Left in the U.S. is either an extension of the Democratic Party or a project of non-profit organizations funded by the One Percent. As BAR’s Bruce Dixon told author Ann Garrison, the genuine left needs “to create a movement that will not be hijacked by…
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…
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…