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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Big Lie Goliath
26 Apr 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner On the presence, and likely not the passing of Bill O'Reilly....
Africa Has No Stake in the French Election
03 May 2017
by Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe From de Gaulle in 1958 to Hollande in 2017, and for all members of the French establishment, the operational principle of the French towards Africa has been: “invade, intimidate, manipulate, install, antagonize, ingratiate, indemnify, expropriate.” Nothing in this election will…
Global Capitalist Crisis and Trump’s War Drive
03 May 2017
by William I. Robinson Human extinction by war becomes more likely because the transnational capitalist class has militarized the process of accumulation. “The so-called wars on drugs, terrorism, and immigrants; the construction of border walls, immigrant detention centers, and ever-growing prisons…
Who Is Behind the Assault on Public Schools?
03 May 2017
by Howard Ryan The author believes that school privatization, in the guise of “reform,” is primarily “led by organized coalitions of major corporations, who seek a curriculum suited to their own economic and political hegemony.” Corporate groups like the Business Roundtable took the lead early on…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Bruce Dixon: Don't Let Democrats Drive You to Desperation
03 May 2017
by Ann Garrison Noted Black public intellectual Dr. Cornel West recently gave the nod to backers of a new, People’s Party. But Green Party activist and BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon says that trying to build a new progressive electoral force by “poaching” Democrats is the wrong way to go. In an…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Gets Paid
03 May 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Obama opposed reparations for Black slavery, but gladly pockets payback for his work in ensuring that banks are “too big to jail.” Obama has been on the Lord’s of Capital’s payroll, coming and going, having won the presidency with the largest…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Whiteness and the Legitimacy Crisis of Global Capitalism
03 May 2017
by Salvador Rangel – Jeb Sprague-Silgado “The Trump-right,” say the authors, “has sought to make up for the loss in the material wages of white workers through an increase in their ‘public and psychological wage’ (as W.E.B. Du Bois described it) —via the promotion of racism and xenophobia.” Since…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Trump's First 100 Days: The War Party Lives On
03 May 2017
by Danny Haiphong Donald Trump has been brought to heel, as Hillary Clinton might say. “Trump has learned in his first 100 days in office that war is the primary marker of Presidential legitimacy.” The War Party’s anti-Russia campaign has crushed any hopes of lessening international tensions. “…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Study Shows School Vouchers Hurt Students – But Trump and DeVos Couldn't Care Less
04 May 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are old school “segregation academy” politicians with strong ideological investments in private school vouchers. They will not be deterred by a new study that shows the Washington DC school voucher program…
Dale T. McKinley
Zuma and the Real Story of the Capture of the ANC and the State
10 May 2017
by Dale T. McKinley The continuity of corporate capture, of corruption, of the arrogance of state and executive power, of the demobilization of the grassroots, is crucial to understanding what Zuma has done and will continue to do. And this rot did not start with the rise of Zuma to the throne. It…