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Henning Melber
Why the Private Sector’s Hype About the African Middle Class Isn’t Helpful
15 Nov 2017
“It defines as middle class someone who has a daily income of between $4 and $70. The African middle class is of huge interest to business. This was confirmed again recently by well attended seminars in South Africa’s big cities to discuss “African Lions: groundbreaking study on the middle class in…
Ken Morgan
Blacks and Tax Reform
15 Nov 2017
“Capitalists continually search for the highest return on their investments -- not creating jobs.” The Republicans' so-called tax reform bill represents at least $1.5 trillion increased gifts to the one to ten percenters that own a disproportionate part of the wealth and means of production that…
Ron Jacobs
New York’s Black Panthers, a Legacy
15 Nov 2017
“The book is a reminder of the Black Panther Party’s continued relevance.”
Edward S. Herman
Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies: The New York Times, 1917–2017
15 Nov 2017
“Fake news on Russia is a Times tradition that can be traced back at least as far as the 1917 revolution.”
Ida Harris
We Get It. It’s Harvey Weinstein’s News Cycle. But What About Our Black Girls?
15 Nov 2017
“Apparently, the victimization of young black girls is not newsworthy enough for the mass media or the court of public opinion to be engrossed or enraged at Weinstein levels.” I stopped watching broadcast news five years ago, after a sex crime was reported in close proximity to where I live. The…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Burundi Defies the Imperial Criminal Court, an Interview with John Philpot
15 Nov 2017
“All the international criminal courts became propaganda tools for perpetuating Western domination of Africa by demonizing any African leaders who dare to raise an independent head or take steps toward resource sovereignty.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
US politics Even More Conservative Under Trump, But Not for the Reasons Expected
15 Nov 2017
“At no other time has there been more of a need to organize a political program independent of the two party system.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Defending RT
15 Nov 2017
“The 21st century McCarthyite campaign has succeeded in convincing otherwise intelligent people that Russia is an enemy.” The Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) was established in 1938 as a means of fighting Nazi influence in the United States. The Russian funded cable network RT was recently…
Dr. Matthew Quest
What E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie Says To Us 60 Years Later, Part 2
15 Nov 2017
“...the Black struggle for status and recognition on capitalist terms will produce more absurdity, brutality, and deformities...”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Democrats Used to Love Russian Oligarchs
16 Nov 2017
“It is the Democrats that have been in 'collusion' with Russian oligarchs since the birth of that class out of the rubble of the Soviet collapse.”