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Rick Sterling
Tulsi Gabbard vs Google Goliath
07 Aug 2019
Tulsi Gabbard was the most-searched person on Google during the first debate – so the giant corporation shut down her account. “Google uses several techniques to manipulate public opinion.” Introduction The Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign has filed a major law suit against Google. This…
Crystal M. Fleming, Ph.D.
Trump’s Disavowal of White Supremacy Makes a Mockery of Antiracism—But So Does the Rest of the Political Establishment
07 Aug 2019
The partisan condemnation of white supremacy that has taken shape during the Trump era has reduced anti-racist critique to political theater. “Few commentators understand white supremacy as baked into a system of capitalist exploitation that reduced human beings to chattel and removed sovereign…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
THIS WEEK’S MASS MURDERS
07 Aug 2019
I just walked in the building, and I’m pissed—shaking with anger—why am I the usual, permanent suspect, Scrutinized, looked up and down, looked at sideways? Why must I always remind rent- a-pigs not to worry ‘bout me, “Black Identity Extremist;” or “Bad Hombre…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
U.S. imperial Decline and the Belt and Road Initiative: The Most Important Global Struggle of the Century
07 Aug 2019
U.S. imperialism views the One Belt One Road as an existential threat to the domination and monopoly of the dollar. “China is becoming deeply connected to Asia, Europe, and Africa and this spells doom for U.S. imperial hegemony.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Who’s a White Supremacist?
07 Aug 2019
Americans have an openly racist president, racist foreign policy, racist law enforcement and racist corporate media. “A settler colonial state depended upon gun carrying white people to uphold the social order.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
American Exceptionalism = Mass Murder
08 Aug 2019
U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right. “The FBI has always behaved as if armed white supremacists were a potential reserve force to help crush Black rebellions.”
Global Information Network
New Ebola Drugs Show Exciting Promise With Up To 90 Percent Cure Rate
14 Aug 2019
A breakthrough in the fight against one of the world’s most terrifying diseases. “Now we can say that 90 percent can come out of treatment cured, they will start believing it and developing trust.” Two experimental treatments are raising hopes among medical personnel that a cure for the…
Steve Hochstadt
How African American Land Was Stolen in the 20th Century
14 Aug 2019
The US government gave hundreds of millions of acres of land to whites, but failed to give freed slaves 40 acres and a mule or protect Black farmers from massive theft. “There were nearly 1 million black farms in 1920, about one-seventh of all American farms, mostly in the South.”
Zanga Chimombo
Ancient Eugenicists
14 Aug 2019
Ancient Egyptians were not Asians, nor aliens. “Genocide might indeed be a worse demon of our nature.”
Derecka Purnell
Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing Are Chapters in the Same Manifesto
14 Aug 2019
White supremacist killers in the U.S. are simply implementing on a local level what their government does across the globe. “White people attack Brown and Black Muslims in the United States precisely because of the country’s wars abroad.” After two mass shooters killed and injured dozens…