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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…
I Feel Blessed to Have Encountered Darcus Howe
26 Apr 2017
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali Darcus Howe, the Trinidad-born nephew of C.L.R. James, touched many lives. A member of the British Black Panthers and an organizer of street protests in London, Howe became a noted broadcaster and writer. The author first met Howe in New York in that crucial…
From Colonialism to Trumpism: Remembering Aimé Césaire
26 Apr 2017
by Abraham Ramirez Americans and Europeans speak of the drift towards fascism, as if the empires they have built on the tombs of the non-white peoples were not the incubators of Hitlers -- and incarcerationist Clintons, bombing Obamas and Trumps. “They tolerated Nazism before it was inflicted on…
Thomas C. Mountain
Africa’s War Lord Queen; The Bloodstained Career of Liberia’s Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson
26 Apr 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain If all you know about Liberian President Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson is what you read in the U.S. corporate media, you probably think she is a Nobel Prize-winning reformer. In fact, Sirleaf is a U.S. imperial puppet whose hands are steeped in blood, the “right hand woman“ of…
A New Agenda in Jackson, Mississippi
26 Apr 2017
by Sarah Jaffe Chokwe Antar Lumumba wants to finish the work his father began as mayor of Mississippi’s capital city. “No longer should we just buy someone’s agenda, listen to how they are going to do all these great things for us, only to find ourselves disappointed in the end result,” says…