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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.
Eddie Haywood
Why is the US at war in West Africa?
25 Oct 2017
“The expanding levels of US military forces arrayed across the continent have increasingly taken on the character of an occupying army.” The October 4 killings of four US Green Berets in Niger has provided a rare glimpse into the far-reaching American military operations throughout the African…
Erin Fiorini
Expert Exposes US Biological Warfare During Korean War
25 Oct 2017
“American aircraft were dropping strange objects including live spiders, flies, bees, snakes, fleas, ticks, dead rats, and mosquitos encased in U.S. military tubes.” TeleSUR spoke with retired Prof. Stephen Endicott about his definitive book on the U.S. use and cover up of biological warfare during…
Gerald A. Perreira
Remembering Muammar Qaddafi and the Great Libyan Jamahiriya
25 Oct 2017
“The execution of Muammar Qaddafi and those that fought alongside him is one of the greatest crimes of this century.”
Immanuel Ness
The Relevance of the Soviet Revolution to Today’s Struggle
25 Oct 2017
“The lessons from the Soviet era are a vivid reminder that socialism is not a utopian ideal, but a historical reality that workers must fight for.”