Glen Ford, interviewed by the Real News Network, remarks upon the congruity (NOT the INcongruity) of the administration of the first black president and first black attorney general imposing, at the request of local authorities a "no fly" zone to impede news coverage of mass actions and police response in Ferguson MO. The last time the Obama administration imposed a domestic no-fly zone was also to inhibit news coverage, that time of the extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near the end of the first black president's first term in office.
What does democracy mean if elections are ignored and journalists are charged as criminals? That is the case today, as western countries descend into crises of their own making and are more blatant…
Remembering the terrible plight of the incarcerated during Hurricane Katrina.
DNC protest organizers kept Democrats’ responsibility for the Gaza genocide in the news from October to August.
EVD, COVID-19 and now Mpox further reveal how dependency is dangerous and deadly.
"DNC: Deceptive Notorious Capitalism" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
