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New Mike Brown Footage Discredits Ferguson Police Account
15 Mar 2017
The Glen Ford Report on the Real News Network
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The U.S. Deep State Rules – On Behalf of the Ruling Class
15 Mar 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The various organs of the Deep State, including the corporate media, work hard to convince the public that the Deep State does not exist. (Kind of like that story about the Devil.) In fact, the Deep State runs the show. “The truth is that an oligarchy rules, and…
Aidan O'Brien
The Empire’s Fifth Column in Africa: Morocco
22 Mar 2017
by Aidan O’Brien Morocco’s newfound interest in Africa is linked to NATO’s attack on Africa and the murder of Muammar Gaddafi. NATO’s destruction of Libya completely humiliated the African Union. It tore the heart out of an alternative African future, and left Africa seriously exposed once again to…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda: The Absolutist Truth of Human Rights Watch
22 Mar 2017
by Ann Garrison Human Rights Watch acts as an arm of U.S. foreign policy. This phony “rights” organization backs the deportation and prosecution of Rwandan dissidents like Joseph Nkusi, who dared to maintain that Hutus were also massacred in the Rwanda bloodbath. Under a minority Tutsi dictatorship…
Jeff Mackler
The Extraordinary Lynne Stewart
22 Mar 2017
by Jeff Mackler The author, a comrade of Lynne Stewart for well over half a century, celebrates her passion as “a movement fighter, a champion of all that is beautiful in the human soul.” Stewart put her life in service to the people. “Would it be that we all had that courage and expressed it…
Vijay Prashad
The Crimes of Israeli Apartheid
22 Mar 2017
by Vijay Prashad A new UN report “argues that Israel is a ‘racial regime’ because its institutions are premised on maintaining a Jewish nation by techniques of suppression and expulsion.” That’s apartheid by definition, a crime against humanity. What exists is one state, “with Israel having…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Bethesda African Cemetery: Protests Trigger Government Response
22 Mar 2017
by BAR Editor and Columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo African descendants have forced a delay in further eradication of ancestral burial grounds in Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, DC. “The African graves were totally eradicated and the memory of the African River Road community erased.” The…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Why Syria Still Matters in the Age of Trump
22 Mar 2017
by Danny Haiphong Much of the U.S. “left” is confused or on the wrong side of Washington’s war against national sovereignty and self-determination in Syria. Publications like The Intercept attempt to conflate Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Donald Trump, “thus delegitimizing Assad in the eyes…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Hillary Returns
22 Mar 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley How long should one stay in rehab after losing to Donald Trump? In Hillary Clinton’s case, forever. Clinton’s recent “coming back out” party in Scranton, Pennsylvania, shows that “there will be no deviation from the failed strategies which put…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Capitalism: Unregulated Disaster…
22 Mar 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner The Gospel of the Invisible Hand instructs us that regulations are evil because they impede the holy quest for extreme profits which underpins the capitalist American Way of Life.