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Thad Baltimore
Is Joe Biden Really More Electable?
26 Feb 2020
Could it be that electability, as applied to Biden, is some form of racial dog whistle? “Biden’s record of anti-black legislation explains why he would also be appealing to Trump supporters.”
Russell Rickford
Building the New Antiwar Movement
26 Feb 2020
Will a new wave of activism finally produce a real mass movement against “boundless” militarism? “An uncompromising antiwar campaign will indict the warmakers and their corporate cronies.” Is a genuine antiwar movement reemerging in the U.S., the citadel of military worship? Will we witness the…
Broke-ass Stuart
The Expanded Moms4Housing Bill Could Change the Whole Game
26 Feb 2020
Although the moms were evicted, their example inspired ground-breaking housing legislation for Oakland, California. “This bill has the potential to help thousands of Oaklanders not only to stay in our community, but also to build a stable and secure future here through a pathway to home ownership…
C. Liegh McInnis
From Peoples to Bynum: A Brief History of Jackson State's Leadership Struggle
26 Feb 2020
Mississippi’s ability to sabotage Black public higher education is enhanced by the state’s power to choose compliant Negroes as administrators. “State college boards across the country continue to play musical chairs with HBCU presidents.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Bernie Sanders' Foreign Policy Trap
26 Feb 2020
It is time for leftists to stop giving Sanders a pass and make demands on him and all other candidates for office. “The belief that peace must be sacrificed for domestic issues on the altar of lesser evilism is a canard.” Russiagate, the invention of the Democratic Party and the surveillance state…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black America, Endless War and the Evil Genius of Russiagate
27 Feb 2020
The Democrats -- who are now the most aggressive war party – have succeeded in linking Donald Trump to Russia, and then lumping all critics of U.S. war-making with Russia and, thereby, with Trump. “For all of Black history on this continent, Black people have been supremely skeptical of the…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Bernie Sanders and the Military Industrial Complex
26 Feb 2020
If Bernie Sanders keeps going along with the Russiagate propaganda, he will find himself “Trumped” by the War Party and unable to enact his agenda. “The spook state will push Bernie harder and harder about Russia.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: U.S. Continues Its War on the Rest of the World
04 Mar 2020
The duopoly corporate parties enforce silence and ignorance on foreign policy to ensure that Americans have neither the knowledge nor the tools to resist their country’s policy of endless war. “The average voter seldom thinks about foreign policy for the simple reason that they aren’t asked to do…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Why it is Unlikely Sandernistas Will Catch Russiagate Fever and Why He Should Be Held Accountable Anyway
04 Mar 2020
Bernie Sanders’ rise to frontrunner status has done nothing to challenge the endless wars waged by the US, yet he is sure to face more smears and attacks the more his campaign succeeds. “When his opponents smear him with wild Russiagate charges, Sanders take the bait.”
Linn Washington Jr
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Smacks Abu-Jamal Again
04 Mar 2020
The Justices used extraordinary authority to delay Mumia’s appeal of his murder conviction. “The request for King's Bench intervention came from the widow of Officer Daniel Faulkner.” Recently the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania again underscored its willingness to impede justice in the contentious…