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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.
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.”…
The Real News Network
The Ford Report: Neil Gorsuch's Abominable Record on Civil and Human Rights 2 of 2
23 Mar 2017
The Real News Network
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…