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Ken Morgan
Blacks and the Alabama U.S. Senatorial Race
13 Dec 2017
“The capitalist moribund two-party electoral politics takes us down a dead-end road.” Democrat Doug Jones’ hair’s-breadth win Republican Roy Moore is being hailed as a great victory. In reality, it makes no difference. An unemployed Alabama black construction worker John Dewayne Richardson provided…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Russsiagate” and the Collapse of Obama’s War Against Syria
14 Dec 2017
“Putin exposed the U.S. alliance with al Qaida on the world stage.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Our Open Letter To NAPO, MXGM, and Dr. Akinyele Umoja on Ultra-Leftism, the Democratic Party and the Movement in Jackson MS
14 Dec 2017
On December 1, our comrade and friend Akinyele Umoja published a piece titled “’Tell No Lines, Claim No Easy Victories:’ A Response to Ultra-Left Attacks on the Lumumba Administration in Jackson Mississippi.” You can find it reprinted in full at the end of this response. I am named as one of the…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Zambia Must Clarify Whether It Will Host Israel-Africa Summit
20 Dec 2017
“Israel since 1948 has collaborated with the same white supremacist forces which conquered, exploited and oppressed African people and their descendants throughout the world.” Several news articles were published in early December indicating that Zambian President Edgar Lungu has agreed to host a…
Earl Bousquet
Will the Caribbean Go the Full Distance for Reparations From Europe?
20 Dec 2017
“The EU states involved -- especially Britain, France and Spain -- have made it crystal clear they don‘t want to play ball on the issue.” Fifteen Caribbean Community, Caricom, governments are being strongly advised to get ready for the long haul in their continuing quest for Reparations for Slavery…
Adam Johnson
NYT Prints Government-Funded Propaganda About Government-Funded Propaganda
20 Dec 2017
“The United States and other ‘democracies’ are positioned as the victims of online manipulation, never its author.”
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Creating the 21st Century Internet
20 Dec 2017
“Political speech should not only be protected in print and television, but it should also be protected in the digital world, including websites, video, social media and new outlets we cannot yet imagine.”
Vice News
Police Shoot More Than Twice as Many Americans as Previously Understood
20 Dec 2017
“Until now, there has never been a national reckoning of police shootings that includes Americans who are shot by cops and survive.” Police shoot far more people than anyone realized, a VICE News investigation reveals. An exclusive analysis of data from the 50 largest local police departments in…
Cornel West
Ta-Nehisi Coates Is the Neoliberal Face of the Black Freedom Struggle
20 Dec 2017
“The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: his view of black America is narrow and dangerously misleading.” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power, a book about Barack Obama’s presidency and the tenacity of white supremacy, has captured the attention of many of us. One crucial…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Alabama and the Duopoly Trap
20 Dec 2017
“The Democrats act as though they have found the magic key to victory because they got lucky in one red state.” The electoral process has changed very little for black people. At this late date in history our highest political expectations still amount to little more than keeping hardcore racists…