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by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison , Helen Epstein
Why Are Ugandan Troops Amassed at the Congo Border Again?
20 Dec 2017
“Rwandan dictator Kagame appears to be pursuing his own agenda in Congo by driving local people out and populating their land with newcomers.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Whoppers of Boss Tweet…
20 Dec 2017
A thief a thug Man in a rug A tweet deceit A lie a cheat— Embellish, embroider: a lying disorder… A myth a fable a bit unstable Flimflam, claptrap bunkum—bull crap! An empty wagon a puffed up dragon… A whopper a fib You peeped from your crib! A sham a fake a major ‘mistake—’ Pathological lying…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The 1% Will Earn the People's Hatred
21 Dec 2017
“The rich prevail in virtually every contest because their political monopoly matches their monopoly on economic power.”
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Black Political Class and Network Neutrality
21 Dec 2017
Earlier this month, Chicago journalist Curtis Black called the office of Congressman Bobby Rush (D- IL) to ask what the congressman’s position on net neutrality was, now that Donald Trump is president. During his two decades in Congress Rush has taken quite a lot of cash from the bagmen of ATT,…
Julianne Tveten
It’s Time to Nationalize the Internet
03 Jan 2018
“Private network providers prioritize only those they expect to provide a return on investment.” Defying widespread popular objection, on December 14 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality. The principle regulates broadband as a utility, thus forbidding cable…
Vijay Prashad
Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe Are Popping Up Across Libya
03 Jan 2018
“The Europeans want to move their southern border from the northern edge of the Mediterranean Sea to the southern rim of the Sahara Desert.”
Phakamile Hlubi
NUMSA: The South African Union That Confronts New Forms of Apartheid Through Class Struggle
03 Jan 2018
“The massacre of the mine workers in August of 2012 was actually the catalyst for the decision that NUMSA made in the following year to break away from the alliance.” The Dawn News spoke to Phakamile Hlubi of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa about their struggle against the…
Netfa Freeman
What Western Imperialism Is Up to Now in Zimbabwe
03 Jan 2018
“The capitalist agenda is to neo-colonize Zimbabwe and appropriate its labor and land.” When the press and media of the so-called Western world adjust their depiction of a nation they had formally demonized to one worthy of cooperation we should pause for a more critical analysis.
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Cornel West Vs. Coates: A Necessary Debate That Black Agenda Report Has Amplified Since Its Inception
03 Jan 2018
“Coates has benefitted from the neo-liberal brand of Black leadership that grew in strength during the era of Obama.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Who Killed Erica Garner
03 Jan 2018
“Obama never gave Eric Garner or his family the justice that he had the power to give.” “I felt the same pain that my father felt on that day when he was screaming, ‘I can’t breathe.” -- Erica Garner