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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Low Regard
19 Jul 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Yesterday's news was that Donald Trump wishes he hadn't hired Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to be Attorney General. Sessions, who happens to be a lawyer actually read, or had somebody on his staff read the DOJ guidelnes which say the AG has to recuse…
Yash Tandon
G20: The Second Berlin War Against Africa
25 Jul 2017
by Yash Tandon With German bankers in the lead, the West is waging economic war against Africa, as was evident at the latest G20 meeting. “The conference’s real effect is to deepen Europe’s colonization of Africa.” Africans must demand that the continent’s resources be used to develop the people of…
US Occupation Has Already Begun and Is Being Conducted by ExxonMobil
25 Jul 2017
by Mision Verdad The U.S. and the world’s largest corporation, ExxonMobil, have prioritized the overthrow of Venezuela’s socialist government. Venezuela and neighboring Guyana claim sovereignty over “one of the biggest oil discoveries of the last decade.” ExxonMobil already finances much of the…
Joe Lauria
Hiding US Lies About Libyan Invasion
25 Jul 2017
The author seemed surprised that the U.S. corporate media ignored a story “that undermined the U.S. government’s entire rationale for its unjustified attack” on Libya, in 2011. The basis for the one-sided war against Libya was entirely false, yet the corporate press repeated each lie like it was…
Thomas C. Mountain
Free Speech or Terror TV? Al Jazeera’s Support for ISIS and Al Qaida
25 Jul 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain People calling themselves “progressives” defend Al Jazeera as a beacon of “freedom of speech” in the Middle East, ignoring its service as a mouthpiece for the genocidal aims of Al Qaida. Untold numbers of Africans were lynched as rapists based on the lies spread by Al Jazeera…
Intel Vets Challenge “Russia Hack” Evidence
25 Jul 2017
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) A group of former U.S. intelligence officers have informed President Trump that the “purported ‘hack’ of the DNC by Guccifer 2.0 was not a hack by Russia or anyone else, but was rather a copy of DNC data onto an external storage device.”…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Will the CIA Obey a Trump Order to Stop Funding Terrorists? An Interview with Rick Sterling
26 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison President Trump seems so afraid of the War Party, he almost whispered his recent cancellation of CIA sponsorship of jihadist fighters in Syria. Whatever Trump’s intentions, progressives should support Tulsi Gabbard’s ‘Stop Arming Terrorists’ bill. The corporate media…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Unraveling of the US State
26 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong Born in genocide and slavery, the U.S. state “can neither reform itself out of economic crisis without attacking the poor, nor manage the exploitation of the oppressed without intensifying state repression.” U.S. imperialism has devolved to a permanent state of war…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Democrats Smear Jill Stein
26 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democratic Party’s Grand Inquisition has move leftward, targeting 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, whose political crime was to attend an RT dinner in Russia, the year before. The Democrats are trying to yoke her into…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump Faces Down the CIA and Co-Opts the Pentagon on Syria (for the time being)
27 Jul 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The crazed, racist, stupid, boorish man in the White House “this summer defied the War Party and its corporate media mouthpieces, negotiating a cease-fire with the Russians in several regions of Syria, and possibly ending the CIA’s not-so-covert role as Grandmaster…