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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. …
The Real News Network
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…