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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Don't Give the Black Misleaders Your Vote (They'll Just Cash It In)
23 Mar 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Democratic Party acts like it owns Black America. It certainly owns most of the Black political (Misleaderhip) class, who “have used their local, state and national offices to facilitate the mass Black incarceration regime at every stage of its deployment.”…
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The Ford Report: Neil Gorsuch's Abominable Record on Civil and Human Rights 2 of 2
23 Mar 2017
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The Ford Report: Neil Gorsuch's Abominable Record on Civil and Human Rights 1 of 2
23 Mar 2017
Mark P. Fancher
The AFRICOM Snake Slithers into the Lake Chad Basin
29 Mar 2017
by Mark P. Fancher Ever since NATO’s 2011 regime change in Libya, the U.S. military command, AFRICOM, has had free rein in most of the continent. Boko Haram “terrorism” provides an excuse to intervene, but AFRICOM’s real aim is to secure U.S. control of African economic resources. “It took only the…
Top Israelis Have Warned of Apartheid, So Why the Outrage at a UN Report?
29 Mar 2017
by Medhi Hasan In the United States, it is all but forbidden – a “slander,” a “smear,” a “despicable” and “blatant lie,” and a “new form of anti-Semitism” -- to call Israel an apartheid state. Yet, numerous Israeli leaders have used the A-word to describe what the Zionist project has become. “Are…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Brother Harvey Matthews: “I’m Fighting for My Ancestors.” The Bethesda African Cemetery: Part I
29 Mar 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo More than half a century ago, developers paved over a Black cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland. Now the county claims the ancestral bones may no longer be there. Some accounts from the Fifties “describe construction crews carving a ditch in the hillside…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
No Tokens with Trump, No time for Fear: These are Revolutionary Times
29 Mar 2017
by Danny Haiphong The corporate media would have you believe that stark differences divide the duopoly parties. The opposite is true. Democrats and establishment Republicans “have united on questions of war, austerity, and state-sponsored surveillance.” If anything, the major parties have…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Israel’s African Darling: Paul Kagame: An Interview with Robin Philpot
29 Mar 2017
by Ann Garrison Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame, who recently addressed AIPAC, in Washington DC, is Israel’s favorite African, a man the Zionists permit to use the term “genocide.” Both nations claim their wounds give them a special status in the world. “Rwanda and Uganda could be called mad dog…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Is Trump the DNC Hacker?
29 Mar 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If the Democrats are intent on living at the Vast Conspiracy Hotel, they ought to widen their list of suspects in the leaking of embarrassing Democratic documents. Roger Stone and Nigel Farage -- men much closer to Donald Trump’s brand of…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
I’m just a patsy; Don’t let me be patsy…
29 Mar 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Some are called for the job, while others are chosen. Some folks practice and study and audition, while others stumble into it blindly. Some are coerced and some more are prepped and primed and meticulously prepared for their few minutes of infamy...