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Minister Faust
Evidence of Violent Extremism of Little Interest When Killer Is White
04 Apr 2018
“In the upside-down world of corporate media, the race of the terrorist, and the races of the people he’s murdered, seem to matter more than the actions committed.” Remember that Muslim mass murderer who belonged to an Islamic home-madrassa called INTIFADA, where knife-wielding Shari’a survivalists…
Julian Vigo
A Brief History of Neo-Colonial Rape and the “Freak Shows” of Black Women’s Bodies
04 Apr 2018
“These sites of ‘disaster’ are created by the very ‘civilized’ men who then turn around and exploit the victims of their imposed ‘civilization.’”
Paul Street
Against False Conflation: JFK, MLK, and the Triple Evils
04 Apr 2018
“The Kennedy brothers approved racist FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s regular and relentless police state surveillance, smearing and infiltration of the movement, including Dr. King.” Two Murders I do not pretend to know the full stories behind the assassinations or executions of either John F.…
Anne Garland Mahler
Charlottesville Mural by Obama “Hope” Poster Artist Causes Controversy
04 Apr 2018
“The artist Shepard Fairey has a history of appropriating images from activist-artists of color and selling them for a profit, without ever acknowledging the originals.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Randi Nord
04 Apr 2018
“Anti-imperialism to me means supporting nations in their struggle against my government's violent and exploitative influence.” This week I spoke with Randi Nord. Nord is a Detroit-based journalist and activist. She is the co-founder of Geopolitics Alert. Her pieces have also appeared in MintPress…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Israeli Meddling and Palestinian Death
04 Apr 2018
“Any politician who questions Israeli policy is at immediate risk of being defeated by a well-funded opponent.” On March 30, 2018 the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) committed cold-blooded murder in Gaza. Thousands of unarmed Palestinians marched peacefully to protest the occupation and declare their…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Victory Over Military Cop Convention
04 Apr 2018
“The best-selling t-shirt at the previous year's expo: a picture of an assault weapon with the caption ‘Black Rifles Matter.’” On March 27, the San Francisco Bay Area’s Stop Urban Shield Coalition claimed victory in its four-year battle to stop Urban Shield, a war games and weapons convention for…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Gunmen
04 Apr 2018
Hm, March 18th my Mothers birthday I heard lead bees stung the young mans Back, severed vertebrae, collapsed his lung, left his arm bits of boneon a ruby red river
Attala Nasir
Corruption, Complacency, Complicity Lead at Arkansas Baptist College
05 Apr 2018
Little Rock's Arkansas Baptist College numbers among its leaders corrupt Clinton cronies, money launderers, possible former FBI informants and others who sell prisoners' blood, grossly mismange school finances, raise money under questionable pretenses and more all in the name of black uplift.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
MLK: A Snap Shot in Time
05 Apr 2018
“There is no reason to believe that Dr. King would have abandoned his pro-peace (and “democratic socialist”) principles if he were alive today.”