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Tillerson Threatens Regime Change in Venezuela
08 Aug 2017
by TeleSur President Trump’s Secretary of State has made it explicitly clear that the U.S. wants regime change in Venezuela. The country is under “imperialist attack,” said President Nicolás Maduro, whose personal assets have been targeted. “I feel proud to be sanctioned, Mister Imperialist Donald…
Olivia Paschal
The Latest Challenges to the South's Felony Disenfranchisement Laws
08 Aug 2017
by Olivia Paschal
Mike Elk
“Nissan, You Made Us Mad”: Union Promises to Fight Mississippi Defeat
08 Aug 2017
A coalition of community groups, students, clergy and environmentalists joined with labor to attempt to unionize the Nissan auto plant in Canton, Mississippi. “Despite having only a narrow majority of Nissan workers signing cards, the union decided it was time to call an election.” But Nissan won…
Norman Otis Richmond aka Jalal’
Richard B. Moore: “Dogs and Slaves are Named by Their Masters; Free Men Name Themselves!"
08 Aug 2017
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali
Dr. Jahi Issa , Reggie A. Mabry , Patrick Delices
“Reparations is Dead” Authors Seek to Spark Public Discussion of New Legal Strategy
08 Aug 2017
by Dr. Jahi Issa, Reggie A. Mabry, Patrick Delices The authors elaborate on their contention that activists have bungled the legal battle for reparations. They are willing to debate N’Cobra, December 12th Movement, Dr. Ron Daniels, Assemblyman Charles Barron, Dr. Claude Anderson, Randall…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Barbara Lee and Tulsi Gabbard Side with War Party on Sanctions
09 Aug 2017
The Democrats’ two leading congressional dissidents have finally surrendered, now that the party has “taken the lead in the project of endless war.” U.S. imperialism demands unanimous support from its servants in Congress. “The same set of conditions that drove Donald Trump's rise to the…
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…