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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…
Review: Black Subjugation in America
10 May 2017
by Kim Scipes On a recent visit to Ho Chi Minh City’s (Vietnam) War Remnants Museum I was reminded Americans have never come to grips with our invasion and war on Vietnam. They have also never come to grips with our own history, specifically how Europeans stole this land from Native Peoples and…
Linn Washington
An Opening to Challenge Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Conviction
10 May 2017
by Linn Washington and Dave Lindorff Thirty-five yeas after his conviction in the death of a Philadelphia policeman, Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, may have a shot at overturning the verdict, A judge has begun a process that could throw out the results of the original…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Bernie Sanders: Loyal Democrat, Stalwart for Empire
10 May 2017
by Danny Haiphong Bernie Sanders will never break with the Democratic Party and its finance capitalist masters. Progressives have no choice but “to take the genuine demands for a living wage, socialized healthcare, and free higher public education out of the two-party duopoly and into the streets…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Democratic Party Death Spiral
10 May 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democrats are locked in a fatal contradiction: they cannot serve the people and their rich paymasters, too. The people want higher wages, affordable education and the right to healthcare. Instead, the Democrats “engage in wishful thinking…