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Paul Street
The Abandonment: Reflections on James Foreman’s "Locking Up Our Own"
19 Jul 2017
by Paul Street James Forman’s new book is indispensable “for those who want to get the whole story on the rise of the “the New Jim Crow.” The Black middle and upper classes, which have been largely exempt from the mass Black incarceration regime, “actively participated in the rise of the racist…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Jay-Z and the Rest of his Class Belong in the Dustbin of History
19 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong Jay-Z’s album 4:44 confirms his deep loyalty to the capitalist system and profound disdain for the people that buy his records. He is a parasitic preacher of I-gotta-get-mine politics, like other celebrities whose existence does “nothing to alleviate the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris and America’s Oligarchs
19 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley California’s new senator is actively being vetted as the “next Obama, “ or “Obama 2.0” -- a youngish, biracial corporate Democrat and a woman. Democratic honchos are betting that “white people will consider her exotic enough to be acceptable and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Women in the Killing Fields
20 Jul 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A white woman from Australia was gunned down by militarized police in Minneapolis – part of the collateral damage that flows from the U.S. mass Black incarceration regime. The intended targets are Black women like Charleena Lyles, killed by Seattle cops, last month…
The Venezuelan Constituent Assembly: Pillars of a Communal Culture
19 Jul 2017
by The Philosophical Gathering of The Poor The U.S.-backed opposition has played its cards, unleashing terror and economic sabotage against the Bolivarian revolution. Now it is the people’s turn, with the convening of a National Constituent Assembly with “the option of eliminating the old laws…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
White Liberal Guilt, Black Opportunism and the Green Party
20 Jul 2017
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Building a new kind of left party isn't easy, or it would have been done a long time ago. The Green party's annual meeting in Newark last week revealed some of the deep problems caused by liberals whose goal is "diversity." Diversity creates token blacks…
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…