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Freedom Rider: When Cops and Prosecutors are Criminals

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 01:04 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

It should surprise no one that the world’s biggest and harshest criminal injustice system puts many innocent people in jail, disproportionately Black. “America’s addiction to racism and violence creates outright criminality among police and prosecutors.” Police and prosecutors routinely frame the innocent, knowing that “mass incarceration depends on an assembly line of conviction.”

Freedom Rider: Support Assata Shakur, At Your Own Risk

Wed, 05/08/2013 - 10:00 — Margaret Kimberley

 

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Thanks to The First Black President and The First Black Attorney General, “the only people safe in speaking of or contacting Shakur are those who mean her harm.” To speak of Black liberation, its heroes and history, is a crime of terror. “Barack Obama has made manifest his predecessor’s desire to create a truly fascist machinery in this country.”

Freedom Rider: Crushed by Capitalism

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 23:54 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Some Americans feel, mistakenly, that they live in a different universe from Bangladeshis. However, “The American retailers supplied by the Bangladeshi workers routinely practice wage theft, reduce hours worked and prevent their employees from earning a living wage.” It is, so far, only a matter of degree.

Freedom Rider: Every Day Terror

Wed, 04/24/2013 - 00:22 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

“Americans are like spoiled children, whining over their suffering, while showing no empathy for anyone else’s.” Worse, they give the OK to kill other people’s children all across the non-white world. They are easily frightened, throwing away their civil liberties at the drop of a hat, yet generous in insane ways, sending $20 million to Boston without “knowing who needed it or for what purpose.”

Freedom Rider: Obama and the Class War

Wed, 04/17/2013 - 00:30 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Back in 2006, Barack Obama sold his soul to Wall Street bankers, who then supported his run for the presidency. “Barack Obama became president because he told the Rubins and Altmans of the world that he was on their side while simultaneously convincing millions of voters that he was on theirs.”

Freedom Rider: Fear of a Dead Planet

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 11:57 — Margaret Kimberley

By Margaret Kimberley

Fracking is a corporate oil extraction technology. It uses vast quantities of water and irretrievably poisons water tables for entire regions before it brings up an ounce of oil or gas. Refining fracked oil & gas takes several times the energy and is vastly more polluting than conventional gas and oil, and once refined, burning even the cleanest gas and oil is altering the climate, possibly killing the planet. Fracking is fracked up.

Freedom Rider: Hidden War Crimes in Iraq

Wed, 04/03/2013 - 10:27 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

The United States leaves an indelible impression on the peoples that come in contact with it: in the case of Iraqis, a legacy of death by bombs, bullets, incineration, starvation, disease and genetic damage. The U.S. didn’t event war crimes, but its global reach and high tech style of killing makes America unique in the annals of inhumanity.

Freedom Rider: What Ails the GOP

Wed, 03/27/2013 - 08:52 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

The Republicans have stripped down their constituency to only “the worst of the worst” Americans: “white supremacists, misogynists and other dead enders.” Obama’s Democrats have absorbed the rest of the GOP, to become the New Republican Party of austerity and war.

Freedom Rider: U.S./Israel Axis of Evil

Wed, 03/20/2013 - 00:38 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

“If anyone can get away with making Israeli fantasies of regional domination come true, it is Obama.” He’s got more faces than a Hindu god, and smoother moves than the NBA. “He killed Gaddafi, he is destroying Syria, and he is sending troops to occupy the African continent.” If only he was on our side.

Freedom Rider: Rand Paul Exposes the Democrats

Wed, 03/13/2013 - 08:29 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Rand Paul was denounced as the wrong man with the right message, but most Democrats were too craven to deliver any message at all on the high crimes of their president and his killing assistant. “At the end of the day, only two Democrats (Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley) and independent Bernie Sanders joined Republicans in opposing Brennan’s nomination.”

Freedom Rider: Obama’s Torture of Bradley Manning

Wed, 03/06/2013 - 01:44 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

The simple decency of Bradley Manning, who faces life in prison for being a good citizen, throws in graphic relief the infinite depravity of the current U.S. regime. “Lawlessness has now become perfected and normalized under the Obama administration.”

Freedom Rider: Hollywood’s Propaganda

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 01:15 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Hollywood helps Americans feel good about being part of an empire that kills other peoples at will. “Movies have become a happy arm of the United States government as they advocate for violence and war crimes.” Tales of torture and wanton killing are blockbusters in the USA.

Freedom Rider: Sniper Gets Sniped

Wed, 02/06/2013 - 02:06 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

America, born in genocide and constantly renewed by bloodbaths, treats mass murder as a virtue. Chris Kyle answered the “clarion call of white supremacy, manifest destiny and imperial delusion.” Now that he’s dead, the world is a better place.

Freedom Rider: Job Discrimination Lives On

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 02:05 — Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

For the masses of Black people, progress against job discrimination ground to halt decades ago. Even at the supervisory level, apartheid is the order of the day. “Black men and women are rarely hired to supervise white people. Black men supervise black men, black women supervise black women, and white men are in positions to manage everyone else.”

Freedom Rider: The State Killing of Aaron Swartz

Wed, 01/23/2013 - 02:04 — Margaret Kimberley

 

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

A brilliant young practitioner of human interconnectedness, Aaron Swartz “played a key role in defeating the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which used the phony threat of online piracy to make the internet less open.” He was hounded to death by venal prosecutors of “the worst judicial system on the face of the earth.”

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