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Remembering South African Struggle Hero Chris Hani: Lessons for Today
12 Apr 2017
by Arianna Lissoni South African communist leader Chris Hani was assassinated by white racists 27 years ago, removing him from the scene during the nation’s transition to Black rule. Hani fought careerism and corruption in the revolutionary movement. Today, the “tradition of internal debate” that…
Deportation of African and Other Black Immigrants Is Quietly Increasing And No One Is Taking Note
12 Apr 2017
by David Love “Fully one-third of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers are African” – the fastest growing immigrant group -- and deportations of Black immigrants are expected to soar under Trump. The White House has placed bans on three countries -- Somalia, Libya and Sudan -- that account for…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Community Had a Duty to Shut Down the Montgomery County Hearing on the Bethesda African Burial Ground
12 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo Black community members attempting to preserve an ancestral burial ground charge they were “deceived, misled and ambushed” by officials in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. The Bethesda African Cemetery was already buried under a parking lot. Now…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Anti-Russia Madness Attempts to Suppress the Bi-Partisan Triple Evils of Capitalism, Racism, and War
12 Apr 2017
by Danny Haiphong Washington’s “anti-Russia madness” has distracted attention from every other issue, including what Dr. Martin Luther King called “the triple evils” of war, capitalism, and white supremacy. As Trump surrenders to the “Deep State,” working class and poor folks sink deeper into…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump Joins Democrats in the War Party
12 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Trump who upset the War Party with his stated opposition to regime change and willingness to lessen tensions with Russia has combusted in orange fireballs of war. In the wake of the attack on Syria, Bernie Sanders “proves himself to be a…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
God Squares Off with the Devil in Syria and Rwanda
12 Apr 2017
by Ann Garrison The propagandists of imperial war come in many packages, trailing the slime of mass death behind them. The Canadian ex-general Romeo Dallaire proudly bears the “white man’s burden” to punish Rwandans who were on the wrong (not the U.S.) side in their country’s civil war. He cites…
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…