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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Murder Inc.
10 Feb 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When the president can coldly order the extrajudicial killing of American citizens, the rule of law ceases to exist. Yet only Rep. Dennis Kucinich has categorically challenged President Obama's claim to be legal judge, jury and executioner. “We…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
U.S. Attempts to Erase Haitian Nationhood
10 Feb 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The world’s sole superpower behaves as if Haitian sovereignty no longer exists. Notions of legality are wholly absent in America’s occupation of Haiti, where the U.S. poses as the internationally recognized authority. Washington arrogantly improvises the terms of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Tauzin Tossed Under the Bus
17 Feb 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When the Obama White House played “Let's Make a Deal” with the drug industry, former Louisiana congressman Billy Tauzin was Big Pharma's chief negotiator. Tuazin blew the whistle on the White House's under-the-table machinations, to the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
How Did Corporate America, Black America, And Left America All End Up On The Same Side?
17 Feb 2010
By BAR executive editor Glen Ford If you cannot see the video above, click here. Glen Ford notes that more than $23 trillion dollars has been steered to the financial sector since the Wall Street Meltdown, far exceeding the total value of everything produced and consumed in the entire US economy in…
John Maxwell
What the World Owes Haiti
24 Feb 2010
by John Maxwell Just as Europe and the United States owe Africa for the fantastic wealth brutally extracted from the labor of her people, the world owes Haiti for destroying “slavery and the slave-trade forever.” Although Haiti is at this moment in dire need of material help, “the US, France and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White American Terrorists
24 Feb 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley What a difference a white face makes! A pale visage allows a terrorist to escape the label, even when he crashes a plane into a public building for political reasons. The appearance of being a “nice” white girl can get one away with murder.…
David DeGraw
Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy — The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the USA
24 Feb 2010
by David DeGraw The Economic Elite that control our society do so, at least partially, by causing the public to discuss everything except that which relates directly to social control. The public conversation is directed toward issues and subjects that “are secondary to the larger, more fundamental…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
How President Obama Has Shut Down Black Political Demands and Neutralized the American Left
17 Feb 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If you can't see the video above, click here. We hear all the time that the Obama campaign and presidency mark the triumph of savvy black political power. The truth however, explained BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford, is that the rise of Barack Obama has…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Gentrification, Demolishing the Projects and the Dispersal of Poor Urban Black Communities.
17 Feb 2010
A Black Agenda Interview by Bruce A. Dixon In urban Black America, stable communities are the exception rather than the rule. It's a fact of black life in the US that our urban communities, especially poorer ones are rarely allowed to exist more than a couple generations. Low and moderate income…
John Maxwell
58 Years of Jamaican Journalism
03 Mar 2010
by John Maxwell This is your last chance for a while to savor Mr. Maxwell’s long, long view of Jamaica and the surrounding planet. “Last month made it 58 years hard labor and there is nobody in Jamaican journalism, living or dead, who has spent more time at it.” This one is a gem – as always.