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by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Congo Genocide, 5.4 Million Dead: An Interview with Sylvestre Mido
09 Aug 2017
It's Congo Genocide Week, the anniversary of the 1998 invasion of the Congo by the US puppet armies of Rwanda and Uganda. Since then 5.4 million Congolese have perished. Africa reporter Ann Garrison talks to Sylvestre Mido of Genecost about the invasion and its consequences almost two decades on.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Defeat of American Workers
09 Aug 2017
Capital is winning every round of the class war. Nissan scared Mississippi auto workers out of joining a union, and Foxconn extorted $3 billion to locate a plant in Wisconsin. Republicans cheered. Democrats just looked useless. “There was hope that the majority black work force at the Nissan plant…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Indecency of the Black Misleadership Class
09 Aug 2017
If Congresswoman Barbara Lee is among the best that the Black political class has to offer -- which she is -- then that class is “wholly unfit to guide the politics of 40 million people.” “The ideology of the Black Misleadership Class -- awesomely self-serving and pitifully servile, at the same…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Locked and Loaded: War with North Korea Cannot be Contained but Must Be Prevented, An Interview with K.J. Noh
16 Aug 2017
"Unless attacked, North Korea will not strike the U.S. However, “given their own history, not to mention the examples of Libya and Iraq, the North Koreans are unlikely to give up their deterrent.” Locked and Loaded: War with North Korea Cannot be Contained but Must Be Prevented, An Interview with K…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Kaepernick Shows Why Black Lives Will Never Matter under US imperialism
16 Aug 2017
Corporate sports owners and media have enlisted the industry’s Black misleadership class to torment Colin Kaepernick, whose crime is to connect “the oppression of Black people with the roots of the nation itself.” Kaepernick Shows Why Black Lives Will Never Matter under US imperialism by…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Story of Charlottesville was Written in Blood in the Ukraine
16 Aug 2017
Some of the neo-Nazis President Obama helped put in power in Ukraine carried Confederate flags. U.S. society has been moving rightward for decades -- and pulling much of Europe with it. The Story of Charlottesville was Written in Blood in the Ukraine by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka “While…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Root and Russophobia
16 Aug 2017
Freedom Rider: The Root and Russophobia by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “The Black Guide to Russia is nothing more than Propaganda or Not warmed over with a dark face.”
Ken Morgan
Korea: U.S. imperialism from Truman to Trump
17 Aug 2017
For over a century, the people of Korea have resisted Japanese and U.S. aggression and occupation. Washington killed 3 million Koreans three generations ago, and now threatens to rain nuclear fire on the peninsula. Korea: U.S. imperialism from Truman to Trump by Ken Morgan “North Korean, with China…
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Review: The House on Coco Road -- A New View of Grenada’s Revolution
17 Aug 2017
In October of 1983, the Reagan administration sent a U.S. armada to invade the Caribbean island nation of Grenada. A new film explores the rise and fall of a revolution “for work, for food, for decent housing and health.” Review: The House on Coco Road -- A New View of Grenada’s Revolution by…
Michael Pierce
The Racist Origins of Right to Work
17 Aug 2017
From the beginning, right-to-work legislation was designed to maintain the color bar and “protect the Southern Negro from communistic propaganda and influences.” The Racist Origins of Right to Work by Michael Pierce This article previously appeared in Labor Notes and Portside. “The Christian…