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Oscar Wailoo
Canada Pays and Fails Omar Khadr
01 Aug 2017
The Canadian courts have acknowledged the wrong done to Omar Khadr, a 15 year-old child soldier who was tortured and imprisoned as an “enemy combatant” at Guantanamo for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Khadr received a monetary settlement, but the Canadian government has never…
Timothy T. Schwartz
How Haitian Earthquake Relief Efforts Pulled Off a Huge Con Job, with the Help of Mainstream Media
01 Aug 2017
In the space of a year, donors contributed $13.1 billion to Haitian earthquake victims – enough money to finance the national budget for 13 years. But the Haitian government got only 1% of it. The world’s richest “aid” outfits and their contractors got most of the rest. “Money that was promised to…
Resumen Latinoamericano
Despite the Efforts of the Opposition, Over 8 Million People Voted for the Constituent Assembly in Venezuela
01 Aug 2017
The government of President Nicolás Maduro claims more than 41 percent of registered voters went to the polls to elect candidates for a National Constituent Assembly that will rewrite Venezuela’s Constitution. The right-wing opposition attempted to disrupt the process. “Polls were open until 10pm…
Chris Hedges
Trump and the Christian Fascists
01 Aug 2017
Donald Trump, the authoritarian billionaire liar, has lots in common with the mega-preachers of the far Right, who run despotic fiefdoms and “prey on their followers by extracting ‘seed offerings,’ ‘love gifts,’ tithes and donations and by selling miracle healings along with ‘prayer clothes,’ self-…
Norman Richmond
Black August, George Jackson and Marcus Garvey
01 Aug 2017
August is a politically charged month in the Black world: the month Marcus Garvey was born and when Black Panther George Jackson and his younger brother, Jonathan, were killed. George Jackson and Huey Newton considered themselves to be scientific socialists, but both men were once also students of…
Rob Seimetz
Justice and Reparations on the Ballot in St. Petersburg, Florida
02 Aug 2017
The Uhuru Movement is running a serious race for mayor and a city council seat in St. Petersburg, Florida, on a platform of social justice and reparations to the Black community. The Black south side of St. Petersburg “is getting pushed out via gentrification.” The two rich white establishment…
Tasasha Henderson
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks About Black Lives Matter and Police Violence
02 Aug 2017
A new book of essays by Mumia Abu Jamal sheds light on the historical roots of police violence. “The state will always utilize its ‘law" as a tool of repression, but movements must create and expand the space to raise contradictions.” Huey Newton, says Mumia, “called for deep transformation of…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
US and UK Fund Kagame’s Killing Fields: An Interview with David Himbara
02 Aug 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame will stage sham elections, this week, to keep himself in power for another term. He has already arranged to stay in office until 2034, if he chooses. Those who challenge the vote count often wind up dead, or in prison, like Victoire…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Washington: A One Party State
02 Aug 2017
The two corporate parties agree on almost everything of substance. “The one-party state doesn't negotiate police brutality, mass incarceration, or any other manifestation of white supremacy. Nor does it think twice before enforcing sanctions on Syria or Venezuela.” They can’t change Obamacare,…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Lie of Academic Freedom
02 Aug 2017
Scholars of color have become easy targets for right wing internet trolls and “any whining white person with a gripe.” University campuses claim to be bastions of freedom of speech and inquiry – unless you are of the wrong political persuasion, color or religion. “People who call out white…