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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump, Moved by Blond-Haired Victims, Surrenders to War Party
13 Apr 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It’s a doomsday combination: Donald Trump, the raging racist who, nevertheless, claimed to oppose regime change and eternal tensions with Russia, has thrown in big time with the War Party – in hopes that the Deep State will spare him. Trump “will pursue the…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
#BlackLivesMatter Introduces a New Visa Debit Card, and Revives the Toxic Old Myths of Black Capitalism
13 Apr 2017
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The old myths that African Americans are poor because we don't spend wisely invest or save enough have been demolished many times. Black unemployment and poverty are core features of US capitalism and can’t be cured by black banking or shopping with black…
FikreJesus Amahazion
Justice Deferred: The 15 Year Anniversary of the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission Verdict
19 Apr 2017
by Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion With the backing of the U.S., Ethiopia has “continued to militarily occupy large swathes of Eritrean territory and sustain a policy of unremitting aggression and hostility toward Eritrea.” Washington promotes turmoil, imposing unjust sanctions on Eritrea -- sometimes…
Ajamu Nangwaya
Caribbean Reparations Movement Must Put Capitalism on Trial
19 Apr 2017
by Ajamu Nangwaya The English-speaking Caribbean is seeking reparations for slavery from the colonial powers. But why stop there? “If we are going to throw the book at capitalism for chattel slavery, we are morally and politically obligated to do the same for the wage slavery of capitalism under…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Which Side Are You On? The Western Left's Obsession with Empire
19 Apr 2017
by Danny Haiphong The left has always been small in the U.S., but now much of it cannot be called “left” at all. Jacobin throws its weight behind the jihadists waging holy war in Syria on behalf of US imperialism and its junior partners” – a reflection of “the infantile state of the anti-war left…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama and Clinton Brought Slavery to Libya
20 Apr 2017
According to international observers, “African migrants are being openly bought and sold in Libya” – yet another consequence of “R2P,” the pernicious doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” No one is protecting Black Africans from the bestial forces let loose by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
MIT Professor Says Top U.S. Officials Fabricated Intelligence to Justify Attacking Syria
19 Apr 2017
by Ann Garrison A top scientist in weaponry and the physics of explosions at the nation’s foremost institution of technology says the chemical event that the U.S. used as a pretext to attack Syria could not have happened the way the White House says it did. MIT Professor Emeritus Theodore Postol…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
For the Planet and Humanity to Survive / can't make this up
19 Apr 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner This week our poet in residence offers a brief meditations upon where and what sorts of bombing ought to be allowed, if any, and upon the lapse of White House mouthpiece Sean Spicer's descent from manufacturing fake news into promulgating fake history…
This Is Hell
A report from the Brazilian protest movement you won't read about in the New York Times.
18 Apr 2017
by our friends at This Is Hell While 500,000 Brazilians march in protest of post-coup legislation which will impoverish the elderly and families by raising the retirement age to 74, well beyond the country's life expectancy, the NY Times and establishment coverage in the US ignores and distorts…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Maxine Waters Loses Her Mind to “Anti-Russia Dementia” – Like the Rest of the Black Caucus
20 Apr 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Not one Black member of Congress seems prepared to challenge the fraudulent U.S. pretext for bombing Syria – or the war, itself. Maxine Waters is the saddest case. “Who knows how Maxine Waters would vote on Trump’s air strike on Syria, since she is under the crazed…