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Bill Quigley
Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
26 Apr 2017
by Bill Quigley Former Obama education chief Arne Duncan declared that Katrina was the best thing that ever happened to New Orleans schools, which switched to a nearly all-charter system. But, Black students, parents and teachers told an entirely different story to an NAACP hearing. Charterization…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Massacre of Hutu Refugees in Rwanda: An Interview with Rene Mugenzi
26 Apr 2017
by Ann Garrison Thanks to lies told by U.S. presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama, much of the world believes only Tutsis died in the Rwandan genocide. No one has been prosecuted for “the systematic massacre of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus.” Instead, the West lavishes praise, weapons and…
Cornel West
The Democrats Delivered One Thing in the Past 100 Days: Disappointment
26 Apr 2017
by Cornel West The nation’s best known Black public intellectual says it’s past time to dump the Democrats and build a real opposition to Trump. A new party is needed. “If a class-conscious multi-racial party attuned to anti-sexist, anti-homophobic and anti-militaristic issues and grounded in…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Purity Over Principle: The Left's State of Purgatory
26 Apr 2017
by Danny Haiphong It is difficult to speak of a “left” in the U.S., given the inability of people who call themselves leftists “to lend critical support to oppressed nations under siege” – the sacred duty of any genuine Left. Instead, pseudo-leftists join in dehumanizing the victims of U.S.…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Do Americans Have No Shame?
26 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Putting aside the lack of any proof of Russian interference in U.S. elections, Americans have some nerve complaining about outside meddling when they have violated the sovereign rights of much of the planet. Americans owe the world heartfelt…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s New Job: Guardian of Official Lies
27 Apr 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Having spent eight years telling lies about who the U.S. was fighting in its so-called “War on Terror” (secular governments) and who it was allied with (jihadists), ex-president Obama must now ensure that these lies become part of the “common base line of facts”…
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…