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Cameron Duodu
Xenophobia: South Africa is Disgracing Itself and Its Friends
08 Mar 2017
by Cameron Duodu Attacks against resident non-South African Blacks are particularly disturbing, given the great assistance poor Black nations gave to South Africans during their struggle against white rule. One wonders if African “outsiders” are being “used by politicians who have become unpopular…
Bill Quigley
How to Reverse Incarceration in Louisiana: Thirteen Steps to Stop Being First in Being Last
08 Mar 2017
by Bill Quigley Louisiana is the world capital of incarceration, with more prisoners than China. Racial profiling is endemic, sentences are draconian, and jury decisions need not be unanimous. Not coincidentally, Louisiana has the worst record of providing its citizens with the means to defend…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
When the Fox Becomes a Wolf: Understanding the Election of DNC Chairman Tom Perez
08 Mar 2017
by Danny Haiphong Neither the wolves nor the foxes of the corporate parties can offer any real relief from the crisis their capitalist masters have created. Donald Trump offers only racist rhetoric against immigrants, while the Democrats are “equally, if not more responsible, for the crisis…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump and Russia, the Perfect Lie
08 Mar 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The latest New York Times article is proof that outgoing president Obama “was looking not for intelligence he knew didn’t exist, but anything that could be used against Trump and his team.” When it comes to intrigue, Donald Trump is grossly…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Corporate Media Counting Cadence to Fascism
09 Mar 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The ruling class/War Party/corporate media campaign for regime change in Washington has moments of pure silliness, with grown men claiming that U.S. presidents don’t have the power to wiretap people. Someone should have informed Dr. Martin Luther King. But, if…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Blitzkrieg
08 Mar 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Blows and kicks are raining thick and fast, though many miss their mark their mark. But the intention of the 45th president is plainly to take us somewhere we really don't want to go, in a hurry or at all. Are we prepared to resist?
The Real News Network
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…