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by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Peace Activists Confront Amy Goodman on Biased Syria Coverage
17 May 2017
by Ann Garrison Amy Goodman, the producer and host of Democracy Now!, has long angered much of her progressive audience with her biased coverage of the proxy U.S. war against Syria. A Veterans for Peace chapter wants to give Goodman a piece of their minds. “The warmongers in Washington seem…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Jeff Sessions, Eric Holder and Mass Black Incarceration -- Revisited and Revised
17 May 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Attorney General Jeff Session is a nightmare, but Eric Holder, his Black predecessor, was among those that opened the door to racial profiling, “pretext” traffic stops, and mandatory minimum sentences during the Clinton era. The vaunted criminal justice “reforms”…
Thomas C. Mountain
Hail Emmanuel Caesar! The Bankster Macron and Pax Francais in Africa
23 May 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain The blood of millions stains France’s colonialist hands, crimes that dwarf and mock its claims to authorship of “liberty, fraternity and solidarity.” The new bankster-in-charge in Paris is dedicated to wealth accumulation through looting, understanding that “the continued…
Soft Coups in Latin America: The Cases of Ecuador and Bolivia
23 May 2017
by Chicago Alba Solidarity The U.S. government has manipulated indigenous and environmental organizations for its own, regime-change purposes in Latin America. “The US seeks to overthrow democratically elected presidents through media campaigns of lies and half-truths, inciting social discontent,…
Mark P. Fancher
In the Light of African Liberation Day Imperialist Rats Will Run Away
23 May 2017
by Mark P. Fancher The heroic African guerilla struggles against colonialism are history. The African present is dominated by AFRICOM, the U.S. military octopus with tentacles deep in the militaries of supposedly independent African states. “If Africa’s enemies have retreated like cowardly rats to…
National Strike in Buenaventura, Afro-Colombia
23 May 2017
by Esther Ojulari Black people in the Choco region of Colombia marked the National day of Afro-Colombian Heritage, May 21st, with massive protests against economic and political violence. The community around the port city of Buenaventura “has been on general strike demanding that the government…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Never Mind the Real Russia, It’s All about Trump: An Interview with David Swanson
24 May 2017
by Ann Garrison   Anti-war activist and author David Swanson told the author that party partisanship fuels the anti-Russian obsession among rank and file Democrats. “If the Democratic Party had made a grand cause of friendship with Russia and disarmament and ending nuclear weapons madness, then…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Cuban Revolution: Still in Motion
24 May 2017
by Danny Haiphong The author’s recent trip to Cuba confirmed his confidence in the power of people to transform their lives. It is also clear that “the US government has not stopped its ceaseless attack on the Cuban Revolution and probably never will as long as the US possesses an imperialist…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Karen Spellman and the SNCC Legacy Project –Black Power Chronicle Part II
24 May 2017
by BAR Editor and Columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo From her vantage point in SNCC, Karen Spellman saw the birth of the modern Black Power Movement. She says “most Black people equated the concept of Black power with Black pride, Black consciousness, self-determination, controlling our own destinies and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Endless Propaganda
24 May 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Big Lie works. The Democrat/War Party concocts several howling lies per week, amplifies them endlessly in the corporate media, and then repeats the process the next week with a new batch of lies against targeted states and Donald Trump’s…