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March 7, 2017 Judge Accepts Class Action Lawsuit Against Use of Slave Labor in Private Detention Centers
09 Mar 2017
The Ford Report on the Real News Network Does $1 a day forced labor amount to slavery? A judge has certified a class action suit by immigrant detainees that could also bolster challenges to involuntary servitude in federal and state prisons.
Shehryar Fazli
He's My Death, Too
15 Mar 2017
by Shehryar Fazli For Blacks in the United States, it was arguably the most influential murder of the first decade of the modern civil rights movement. “The lynching of Emmett Till was caused by the nature and history of America itself and by a social system that has changed over the decades, but…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Anti-Imperialism, Pan-Africanism and Nkrumah’s Ghana: The Historic Role of Shirley Graham Du Bois
15 Mar 2017
by Abayomi Azikiwe A longtime leftist, Shirley Graham Du Bois had as much influence on her famous spouse he did on her. Both their lives ended in exile. Shirley Graham Du Bois explained to Africans: “Not only have the imperialists and racists robbed, plundered and ravaged this fruitful continent,…
Steve Cunningham
Would the CIA frame Russia in DNC attack, yet wiretap Trump Tower?
15 Mar 2017
by Steve Cunningham The new release from Wikileaks shows the CIA has all the tools it needs to leave “Russian” footprints behind its own hacking jobs. The spooks at Langley can pretend to be “Cozy Bear” and “Fancy Bear” at will. Therefore, “the question we ought to ask is, would the CIA frame…
Yash Tandon
What is Fascism in Our Times? A Global South Perspective
15 Mar 2017
by Yash Tandon In this final essay of a seven-part series, Yash Tandon depicts fascism as a systemic phenomenon arising from the incompatibility of democracy and capitalism. For capitalism to persist, as is the case now, democracy is dispensed with. Hegemonic imperialist powers embody fascism in…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Kagame's Economic Mirage in Rwanda, an Interview with David Himbara
15 Mar 2017
by Ann Garrison If you believe Paul Kagame, his minority Tutsi government has created unprecedented prosperity since seizing power in 1994. Economist David Himbara, who once served as secretary to Kagame, says that his old boss’s “economic miracle is in fact an economic mirage.” Rwanda subsists on…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Most Important Lesson of "Get Out:" Expose the Ruling System in its Totality
15 Mar 2017
by Danny Haiphong The Democrats offer a racial horror show much like the movie Get Out on a society-wide scale. “There are many white liberals who have become energized to ‘Dump Trump.’ while “aligning themselves with US intelligence in the process.” The CIA connection should prompt folks “to ‘get…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: When America Interfered in a Russian Election
15 Mar 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. is the unchallenged champion of hijacking, fixing and subverting elections around the world. On every inhabitable continent – from Italy to Iran to Accra to Tegucigalpa -- Washington has stolen people’s rights to elected leaders of…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Politics of the Bethesda African Burial Ground and the Montgomery County National Lampoon
15 Mar 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo and Kevin Berends A Black burial ground lies under a parking lot in Montgomery County, Maryland, a wealthy suburb outside Washington, DC. Developers want to place more layers of concrete over the bodies of African American ancestors, while their…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Valedectorian
15 Mar 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Lynne Stewart was a a diligent and resourceful peoples lawyer, a movement lawyer, the kind of attorney who defended the poor and indigent, and unpopular and hopeless political cases and always went the last mile for her clients and her principles. …