Bruce A. Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Ghetto Politics Has Outlived the Ghetto, and Still Holds All Of Us Back
17 Oct 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The class of cultural, business and political hacks who pass themselves off as “black leaders” never tire of celebrating the sixties. But they have nothing…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why This Black Man Is Watching the Debates, and Voting Green
04 Oct 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I'll be watching the debates. Not on CNN or ABC, but online at Occupy the Debates or at Democracy Now or Free Speech TV, where the third party…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Voting As A Constitutional Right: What A Real “Protect The Vote” Movement Would Look Like
27 Sep 2012
The right to vote is under a persistent, many-sided and sustained siege. In an era of hostile courts, complicit media, and big money dominating all the legislatures in the land, how can we launch a…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Rahm Emanuel: Point Man For Obama's Bipartisan Pork Barrel Pedagogy
20 Sep 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Despite universal hostility in corporate media, and new laws savagely restricting their right to strike, or even what they could bargain over, Chicago…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Chicago School Strike is Against Obama “Race To The Top” Agenda of School Privatization and Corporate Education Reform
13 Sep 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Polls say that most Chicagoans support the striking teachers. Mitt Romney says he supports Rahm Emanuel. But why do so many who say they oppose charters,…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why I Won't Vote (1956)
05 Sep 2012
by W.E.B. Dubois On October 20, 1956, W. E. B. Du Bois delivered this eloquent indictment of US politics and why he won't vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Du Bois…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Closer Than You Think: Top 15 Things Romney and Obama Agree On
29 Aug 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Republicans and Democrats, like Romney and Obama are of one mind on many more things than they disagree about. From war and empire to their policies on Big Ag,…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Tired Old So-Called Leftists Give Same Old Excuses For Supporting Obama in 2012
16 Aug 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Abject and unwavering support of President Barack Obama on the part of blacks and what used to be called “the left” has made them pretty much irrelevant…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Imagine Urban Economic Development Without The Bankers On Our Backs
08 Aug 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why can't a county or city dig a hole, or lay a mile of light rail without making new millionaires out of half a dozen bankers and their favorite lawyers? Why…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Should We Really Re-Elect This Fracking President?
25 Jul 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Fracking is the energy industry's answer to peak oil, catastrophically offloading the increased cost of oil and gas extraction onto farmers, ranchers, humans…