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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“We’re Broke,” Say the Rich, and the Poor Must Pay
23 Feb 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A society built on racist lies and outright nonsense will believe anything. Therefore, it is no wonder that Republicans have achieved such “wondrous success by planting the words ‘We’re broke’ in the mouths of men and women who are transparently rich, and…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama & Neo-Liberalism are the Daleys' Gifts to Chicago and the Nation. Thanks.
23 Feb 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Chicago's Daley regime was a half century orgy of arrogance, racism and plunder. Thanks to President Obama, it not only continues with the succession of Rahm Emanuel to the fifth floor office of Chicago's mayor, but with nationwide implementation of diastrous…
Bill Quigley
Que Vivan Los Viciosos (Long Live The Vicious)
26 Feb 2011
Netfa Freeman
Ending Poverty In Latin America: Interview with ALBA's Amenothep Zambrano
02 Mar 2011
by Netfa Freeman ALBA, the Spanish-language acronym for the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our Americans, is a regional trade group of leftist Latin American governments determined to eradicate poverty in the region. That makes ALBA a clear and present danger to so-called U.S. interests…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: American Murder in Pakistan
02 Mar 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “The lies began at the very top, with the president’s own words.” The President of the United States went before the American people – and the world – lied about a U.S. spy held for killing two Pakistanis, and blatantly misrepresented…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Wisconsin: The End of Obama-ism
02 Mar 2011
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The struggle in Wisconsin, and those to come, must shape a politics that is independent of the uniparty, the Democratic section of which is headed by Barack Obama. Significantly, “students and other protesters don’t want Obama to intervene in the…
Azad Essa
In Search of an African Revolution
02 Mar 2011
by Azad Essa Where is the line that excises the lands from Morocco to Egypt from the rest of the African continent? “We should not fool about with the attempts of the North to segregate the countries of North Africa from the rest of the continent.” Yet, the artificial division is maintained…
Gregory Elich
Challenging Western Distortions about Zimbabwe's Land Reform
02 Mar 2011
by Gregory Elich Britain and the U.S. have railed for years that Zimbabwe’s land reform was a “disaster” that distributed farmland to political cronies and wrecked the economy. But two studies by prestigious western institutions show that “the claim that the land reform was dominated by…
Malik Russell
White Sports Writers: Raising the Volume on Unforgivable Blackness Then and Now
02 Mar 2011
by Malik Russell In many popular U.S. sports, Blacks make the game but whites tell the story. Sportswriting remains rooted in the racial past. “There might not be a less diversified group of paunchy, balding, middle-aged white guys anywhere in America.” Not so long ago, whites were so…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama and the Nadir of Black America
07 Jul 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley For Black America, it is the worst of times, but a kind of collective insanity leads African Americans to believe they live in the best of times. A Pew Research Center study shows Blacks are the most upbeat on the economy of any major group…