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by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Ugandans Resist Museveni’s Bid for Life Presidency
04 Oct 2017
“Shouts and screams filled the chambers.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Unstable Empire: Committee to Investigate Russia Beats the Drums of War
04 Oct 2017
“Trump's reign is the most visible sign of that weakness.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Russiagate Targets Black People
04 Oct 2017
“Every charge leveled against Vladimir Putin is a sinister projection of the American rap sheet.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Puerto Rico: Shock and Awe Exposing Capitalism’s Criminality
04 Oct 2017
Water is life…and even saliva’s in short supply… For drum-tight mouths, sandpaper throats. Yodeling bellies cave in on spines, as evil scents of sewage and death float in, Refashioning an island into a spreadsheet Cell towers, power lines snapped like legos—electricity’s a distant memory—…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Las Vegas Killings, Through the Lens of New Orleans, Detroit and San Juan
05 Oct 2017
“In a society that has historically denied the humanity of people of color, solidarity with other human beings does not come naturally.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Las Vegas: How White Rights, Neoliberal Isolation and a Little Incompetence Killed 59 or 60 People This Week
05 Oct 2017
Gun rights in the US are mainly white rights. It’s always been that way, sort of baked into the North American experience. The “well regulated militia” to which the Second Amendment to the US Constitution refers were a creation of colonial North America, as I explained back in July 2008,
M. Lee Stone
Lynching and Anti-Lynching: Art and Politics in the 1930s
11 Oct 2017
“There were nearly 5,000 persons lynched from 1882 through 1965.” The term “lynching” supposedly originated during the American Revolution with Colonel Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice of the peace. Lynch ordered “extra legal punishment” for British Loyalists, hanging without a trial. From this…
Ken Morgan
Blacks, Las Vegas, and Gun Control
11 Oct 2017
“Black ex-soldiers and others defended their neighborhoods in America’s numerous race wars.” The recent mass murder domestic terrorist attack in Las Vegas rekindled the U.S. bourgeoisie shaped the debate over gun control and Second Amendment Constitutional rights -- the right to bear arms. The 58…
Caleb T. Maupin
“New Energy Vehicles”: Can China Break Big Oil’s Global Order?
11 Oct 2017
“The power of the small clique of western financial oligarchs depends on oil remaining central.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Who’s Hacking Who? Americans, Not Russians, Disenfranchise Millions of Blacks
11 Oct 2017
“The black vote has been ‘hacked’ and ‘interfered’ with for decades by both parties and is clearly under increasing attack.”