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Alemayehu G. Mariam
Ethiopia, the Day After: The Firestorm
18 Oct 2017
“The people of Ethiopia are showing their defiant resistance.” The handwriting is on the wall. It is the same message the courageous young people chanted at the 2016 Irreecha festival before they were cut down by T-TPLF machine guns, “Down, down, woyane!” The rats are abandoning the Ship of State T…
Jason Burke
Secret Trials of Thousands of Boko Haram Suspects to Start in Nigeria
18 Oct 2017
“Many of the detainees had been held in custody for years without access to a lawyer or ever having appeared before a judge.” More than 2,300 suspected Islamist militants are expected to appear in court in Nigeria in an unprecedented series of mass trials that local authorities hope will be seen as…
Michelle Matisons
Relocated Puerto Rican Families Are Florida’s Latest Class War Targets
18 Oct 2017
“Trump’s treatment of Puerto Ricans as “third world class” citizens will also be reflected in the school and housing conditions available to Puerto Ricans arriving in Florida.”
Mark P. Fancher
U.S. Troop Deaths in Niger: AFRICOM’s Chickens Come Home to Roost
18 Oct 2017
“The Trump administration is talking about a potential imminent U.S. military action to hit back.”
Monique Bedasse
On the Move: Rastafari, Tanzania, and the Lessons of Pan-African Action
18 Oct 2017
“Tanzania’s government and Rastafari asserted a different way of ordering the world through the repatriation: pan-Africanism.” In July 2017, the Ethiopian government announced its plans to finally grant identity cards to Rastafarians who had petitioned for such legal status since the mid-twentieth…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Malcolm’s Chickens Have Roosted in Shootings Across the United States
18 Oct 2017
“The U.S. is flooded with anxiety and guns.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Ingabire Day: We Are All Victoire and Victoire Is All of Us
18 Oct 2017
“Ingabire wants the surviving Hutu refugees to be able to return home safely to join a real reconciliation process in Rwanda.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Russiagate Brings Black Caucus to a New Low
18 Oct 2017
“The worst fascism in decades is underway under the auspices of Democrats.” The so-called Russiagate scandal is a fiction. The hapless Democrats see it as a means of doing what they failed to do on election day in 2016, defeat Donald Trump. The fear mongering also makes the case for waging…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
House (of Representatives) Negroes Rally Against Russia
19 Oct 2017
“For the Black elite, ‘resistance’ means defense of the Democratic Party against all challengers – including independent political challenges from grassroots Black America.”
Shahrazad Odeh
Israel Turns Bus Into Torture Chamber
19 Oct 2017
Jerusalem’s al-Asqa mosque – one of Islam’s holiest sites – received much attention during the summer when Israel blocked Palestinian worshippers from entering it. Some incidents of Israeli brutality around that period nonetheless went unreported by international media.