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Norman Solomon
“Think Through the Implications of Our Actions”: an Open Letter to Rep. Barbara Lee
11 Jul 2017
by Norman Solomon Et tu, Barbara Lee? The only member of Congress to vote against the invasion of Afghanistan appears to have gone over to the dark side with a tweet expressing outrage at President Trump’s willingness to meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The author urges Lee not “to participate…
Jahi Issa
Reparations is Dead: How to Resurrect It
12 Jul 2017
by Dr. Jahi Issa and Reggie Mabry The moral case for Black reparations has effectively been made, but the legal argument has met much frustration in the courts. The authors believe that the period after 1808, when U.S. participation in the international slave trade was outlawed, is key to clearing…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Israel and Rwanda, Partners in Persecution
12 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison The world’s greatest human rights abusers have seats on the UN Human Rights Council, including Rwanda which, along with Israel, claims “genocide” privileges to trash other people’s rights. Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame is soliciting help from Israel to fight Islamic…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
July 4th and the Crisis of US Exceptionalism
12 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong U.S. imperialism has finally found the enemies it has been searching for all these years. Most of the world’s people are already in some form of resistance to Washington’s bullying. Love of war is what makes the U.S. truly exceptional. Domestically, “only an…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Leave North Korea Alone
12 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley U.S. presidents treat other nations like Dred Scott – as having no rights that the United States is bound to respect. North Korea is called “rogue” – the U.S. term for a country that “dares to exist on its own terms.” The dignity of peoples is…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
In Healthcare Battle, Corporations Continue to Win While Public Loses
12 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Both Trumpcare and Obamacare are privatized insurance systems tailored to the needs and greed of healthcare corporations. Corporations wrote the Affordable Care Act, and only the rich benefit from Trumpcare. “The only rational objective for the majority of…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Democrats Gone Mad: The Year of Living Stupidly
13 Jul 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Nobody voted for the War Party in November of 2016, but that’s who’s in power. Which is why both Democrats and Republicans talk of virtually nothing but Russians and war. Polls show most voters think there’s no evidence that Trump “colluded” with Russia, and they…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How Did Berniecrats Claim the Jackson Mississippi Movement? Do They Want To Be Claimed? Should They?
13 Jul 2017
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Jackson's mayor-elect Chokwe Antar Lumumba stepped to the podium at the cynically misnamed "Peoples Summit", the annual June pilgrimage of Berniecrats, he carried with him the credibility of a half century's organizing and struggle in…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Mengele Medicine… Free
12 Jul 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raynmond Nat Turner This week our poet examines the links between the blankets settlers distributed among Native Americans and capitalism's reckless disregard of human, environmental and medica ethics.
Zwelinzima Vavi
South African Communist Party is “Pro-Capitalist and Anti-Socialist”
18 Jul 2017
by Zwelinzima Vavi The newly-formed South African Federation of Trade Unions rejected an invitation to attend a congress of the South African Communist Party (SACP), which is a stalwart ally of the ruling African National Congress and, until recently, President Jacob Zuma. Trade union leader…