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Ryan Singel
The FCC is Delivering the Internet to Corporate Control
06 Dec 2017
“Non-mainstream media news sources across the political spectrum would no longer be able to afford to compete in the marketplace of ideas.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison , Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is Not Papa Africa Saving Slaves
06 Dec 2017
“Migrants deported from Israel to Rwanda in 2014 and 2015 have been horrifically abused and trafficked back to the Mediterranean.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Intercept Attacks WikiLeaks on Behalf of Democrats
06 Dec 2017
“WikiLeaks has done humanity a service by exposing the Democratic Party as but another organ of the rich.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Barbuda and Disaster Capitalism
06 Dec 2017
“Barbudans are rightly suspicious that ultimately their paradise of equality for all will be taken away in favor of capitalist predation.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
if it takes 100 years
06 Dec 2017
I am the North Star— Hope; Never wavering, organizing, burning thorough bars, walls, wire— I am consciousness of all creatures, crystalline water, clean, sweet air, black soil From forgotten reservations I am non-GMO, organic apples, pears, lettuce, tomatoes, spinach Springing from beads of sweat…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Blacks, War and the Phony “Resistance”
07 Dec 2017
“The Democrats are ‘all in’ for the Pentagon, including a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus.”
Harvey Wasserman
Warring Visions of Puerto Rico's Future
13 Dec 2017
“This is an opportunity to make microgrids in Puerto Rico so they can be sustained in different areas.” Warring visions have now erupted over the energy and economic futures of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Will the islands become a cutting-edge green-powered solartopia for the benefit of…
Auditi Guha
New Study Shows Flint Water Affects Baby Weight
13 Dec 2017
“It was a very sharp reduction in birth weight.” Babies born in Flint, Michigan, following the water crisis that started three years ago weighed less than they likely would have if the crisis had never happened, a new study has found.
Morgan Humphrey
The Assassinations, Hyper-Surveillance and Harassment of Blacks is Just Business as Usual for Law Enforcement
13 Dec 2017
“The drug war is the justification to create a police state of black and Latinx communities.” Forty-nine years ago, 21 year-old Fred Hampton, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense state chairman, was drugged and assassinated of by the Chicago Police Department (with the assistance of the FBI). Just…
Democracy Now
Daniel Ellsberg: “Doomsday” is an “Actual War Plan”
13 Dec 2017
“This is the most evil plan that has ever existed. It’s insane.”