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Alan Gilbert
Bigger and More Dangerous Than the New Jim Crow: Part Two
20 Sep 2011
by Alan Gilbert Michelle Alexander’s formulation of the “New Jim Crow” that is reproducing past systemic subordination of African Americans as a caste, is shaking up the U.S. political science establishment. “What Alexander describes is a genocidal system,” says the author. He reasons that…
David DeGraw
Undercount: How Census Bureau Propaganda Ignores the Suffering of 10 Million Impoverished Americans
20 Sep 2011
by David DeGraw Americans were shocked to learn that U.S. Census Bureau figures showed 46 million people in poverty – the most ever. But a better count would have registered and additional ten million poor persons in the U.S. – 56 million. “The Census measures poverty based on costs of…
Dady Chery
The Truth About Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic: An Interview with Dr. Renaud Piarroux
20 Sep 2011
by Dady Chery The United Nations occupation force in Haiti, MINUSTAH, still denies responsibility for the outbreak of cholera nearly a year ago, despite overlapping studies that “demonstrate without any doubt that cholera was brought to Haiti by infected Nepalese soldiers.” Thousands have…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?
21 Sep 2011
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The last refuge of Obamaphiles is that no matter how many times the First Black President double-crosses us by cutting Medicare and Medicaid, no matter how completely be betrays his voters us by ignoring black unemployment, by deporting one million Latinos…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: MLK and Jackie Kennedy
21 Sep 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Forty years ago, countless Black living rooms featured wall paintings with Dr. Martin Luther King sandwiched between the two slain Kennedy brothers – as if the trio were martyrs of the same struggle. One wonders if the picture would have…
Cynthia McKinney
McKinney: The Art of Leadership and the Fight for Justice
21 Sep 2011
by Cynthia McKinney “As the United States and NATO drop bombs on unsubmitting African people in Libya, the United States kills an innocent Black man in Georgia.” The execution of Troy Davis and the vicious Euro-American assault on Libya spring from the same historical source. “A new kind of…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack’s Satan Sandwich Only The First Course: Will We Re-Hire the Chef in 2012 Anyway?
12 Aug 2011
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon President Obama's proposed debt ceiling deal makes drastic and ongoing cuts in social security, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to the education and local governments inevitable. It's the ultimate triumph of fake disaster capitalism. The very purpose of government…
Tamara K. Nopper
Why Obama’s “Black Jobs Plan” Won’t Resolve Black Unemployment
27 Sep 2011
by Tamara K. Nopper President Obama tried to give his Congressional Black Caucus Awards Dinner audience the impression that his jobs bill specifically targets 100,000 Black businesses as job incubators. In reality, the 100,000 African American firms that actually have employees will be…
Eugene Puryear
Three Lessons from the Fight to Save Troy Davis
28 Sep 2011
by Eugene Puryear A Black man’s innocence doesn’t mean a thing. One million signatures don’t mean a thing. “We are not living in a post-racial society, and President Obama won’t save us.” The only meaningful response is to massively organize against those who organized against us. “The…
Al Bilik
How to Privatize the Post Office: Piece by Piece, Step by Step
28 Sep 2011
by Al Bilik Think it would take an act of Congress to privatize the postal system? They’ve been privatizing the post office for four decades, piece by piece, step by step. It’s called “piecemeal privatization,” and it works like this.