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by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Russia’s Vladimir Putin v. NBC’s Megyn Kelly
07 Jun 2017
by Ann Garrison Vladimir Putin mopped the floor with NBC’s Megyn Kelly last weekend, responding to her canned anti-Russia spiel with the contempt, and even humor, it deserved. NBC failed to broadcast a far more newsworthy interchange between Kelly and Putin, doubtless because it called attention to…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Dumb Donald Thinks He’s Pulled the Plug on ISIS and Al-Qaida (and the CIA?)
08 Jun 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump appears to think he’s convinced the Saudis “to reject jihadist terror and to punish Qatar for its support of ISIS and al-Qaida.” Trump is not very bright. The Gulf kings and emirs back jihadist terror for self-preservation, and the U.S. supports al-…
Jeffrey B. Perry
100th Anniversary of Hubert Harrison’s Founding of the Militant “New Negro Movement”
13 Jun 2017
by Jeffrey B. Perry The modern Black liberation movement can be said to have begun with the founding of Hubert Harrison’s Liberty League, in Harlem, a century ago. The League demanded that lynching become a federal crime, and that Blacks defend themselves from racist attack. “Harrison advised ‘…
America's Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration
13 Jun 2017
by Candice Bernd, Zoe Loftus-Farren and Maureen Nandini Mitra Most people realize that prisons are bad for the bodies and minds of the inmates. However, the vast U.S. prison gulag is also a huge source of pollution for surrounding communities. “Federal environmental regulations bar many of the…
What’s Hidden Behind the Walls of America’s Prisons?
13 Jun 2017
by Heather Ann Thompsom The U.S. penal system is like a cosmic Black Hole: far more massive than its counterparts anywhere else in the world -- with 2.3 million behind bars, 4.5 million on probation or parole, and up to 100 million U.S. citizens with a criminal record – yet largely invisible to the…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Jeremy Corbyn Wants to Lay the White Man’s Burden Down
14 Jun 2017
by Ann Garrison There was a time when the sun never set on Britain’s aggressions and thefts around the world. But Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbin rejects that role for his nation. Is that quaint or corny? “Not to the Yemeni families dying of cholera, U.S.-made cruise missiles, British-made…
Victory for the Black Struggle in Buenaventura, Colombia
14 Jun 2017
A Report from the Black Alliance for Peace The three-week strike in Buenaventura was a collective human rights struggle which challenged neoliberalism head on. “The strike involved 117 social organizations, from cargo boat operators, to taxi drivers, to business people, evangelical churches, women’…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
What is "the Resistance," Anyway?
14 Jun 2017
by Danny Haiphong Who is “resisting” what, and on whose behalf? Among folks that claim to be leftists, resistance has become a catch-all term that is “useless” – or worse – “without definition.” Much of the so-called resistance owes allegiance to Hillary Clinton, a true champion of the One Percent…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Under the Democrats’ Bus
14 Jun 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democrats continue their decades-long lurch to the right. The party funds right-wing congressional candidates in hopes of appealing to Trump voters, but resists its own supporters’ calls for single payer health care and other reforms. The…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Why Bernie Sanders is an Imperialist Pig
15 Jun 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Leftish Democrats insist they can reform the corporate-run, Russia-obsessed Democratic Party from the inside, but most pay little attention to war. However, “War is not a side issue in the United States; it is the central political issue, on which all the others…