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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Ra Was Right
24 May 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Some artists write poems and novels. Others paint and perform. Some build imaginary worlds you can immerse and lose yourself in. Some bring messages from the future, prophesying, fortelling the fates of this one. Our poet recalls…
Palestinian Prisoners Hunger Strike Enters Day 37
23 May 2017
by SAMIODUN, the Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network Completely unnoticed by US corporate media, 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners are engaged in a hunger strike, a literal fast to the death demanding human rights in Israeli prisons and jails. As with most actions undertaken by…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Margaret Kimberley: "Just Be Left"
24 May 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Hillary Clinton’s Syria Revenge
24 May 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Had Hillary Clinton been elected, she would likely have turned the Syrian war into a global conflict within weeks of taking the oath. However, Clinton may yet prevail. “With Donald Trump now dutifully in synch with the War Party, the U.S. has countered the Syrian-…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Africa at the Crossroads: the Fate of the African Union
30 May 2017
by Abayomi Azikiwe History is not as far removed from the crises afflicting Africa today as many people seem to think. Imperialism has fought against the continent’s genuine independence and socialist development over the last five decades. As Nkrumah said, independence was only the prelude to a…
How Privilege Politics Erases Radicals of Color
30 May 2017
by Matthew Kovac Reformists claim they are protecting marginalized populations by supporting Democrats and avoiding real confrontation with Power. But Blacks have historically been in the vanguard of resistance in the U.S., and need no paternalistic “progressives” to do their strategizing for them…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
10 Examples of How US imperialism Continues to Kill the People and Planet
31 May 2017
by Danny Haiphong The capitalist narrative, aggressively fronted by the Democratic Party in 2016, holds that “conditions in the U.S. were never better.” But all the objective facts say otherwise. “Imperialism's contradictions have been pushed to their natural limit.” By every social, economic and…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda: Starvation in the Shadow of a Star 
31 May 2017
by Ann Garrison Paul Kagame, the dictator that presides over Rwanda’s minority government, is the darling of the U.S., the former colonial powers, and Israel. Bill Clinton claims “the economic and social gains in Rwanda have been nothing short of astonishing under Kagame.” So, it may surprise his…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama vs. Trump
31 May 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Barack Obama sold Saudi Arabia record amounts of weapons, joined its murderous war in Yemen, and interfered in European elections by supporting Angela Merkel in Germany and Emmanuel Macron in France. Yet the corporate media pretends…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black-Hating Negroes and Their Uses: David Clarke at Homeland Security
01 Jun 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Black sheriff from Milwaukee is a cartoon character whose elevation to Homeland Security is intended as an insult to Black people and a sop to the most bigoted elements of Donald Trump’s base. Clarke’s “talent is to cultivate a crude and shameless contempt for…