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Todd Steven Burroughs
Black Was The Color of His TV Tube: Asante Sana, Gil Noble and WABC-TV’s “Like It Is”
25 Oct 2011
by Todd Steven Burroughs The nation’s longest-running Black public affairs program, “Like It Is,” is no more, a casualty of host Gil Noble’s disabling stroke. Noble ran the show for 43 years. “Again and again he looked right at me/us asked me/us to do what he now cannot—to speak up,…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Revoke Obama’s Peace Prize
26 Oct 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Never in living memory has a Noble Peace Prize recipient gone on to cause more death and misery than Barack Obama, who now puts hits on U.S. citizens. His foreign policy “successes,” as rated by his supporters, all involve assassinations…
Black is Back Coalition
The Call: Black Is Back Annual Conference in Philadelphia, November 5
19 Oct 2011
by the Black Is Back National Steering Committee The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations holds its annual conference in Philadelphia, November 5. The task is to help shape history.
Courtney Frantz
Leta Restavek: The Suppression of Democracy in Haiti
19 Oct 2011
by Courtney Frantz The foreigners that rule Haiti, principally the United States, have attempted to reduce the country to the legal status of child-nation, with no rights that others need respect. These “children” require harsh discipline, which is where the armed UN force MINUSTAH…
jay janson
Unveiling The Monument But NOT King's Condemnation Of U.S. Wars for Wall Street
19 Oct 2011
by jay janson Dr. Martin Luther King’s voice has been sanitized for public consumption, so as not to threaten or discomfort the very class that has made the United Stats “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world” in every decade since his death. “King had bravely exposed the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
OPERATION COOPTATION: THE DEMS TRY TO SEDUCE THE OCCUPATION MOVEMENT
12 Oct 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It’s cooptation time in the Occupation Movement, with the Democrats attempting to convert the anti-Wall Street protests into political assets for Obama – even as he tries to raise a billion dollars from the filthy rich. Al Sharpton is the president’s…
Mike Pirsch
America is a Fascist State Because it is Racist
19 Oct 2011
by Mike Pirsch White Americans seldom see fascism in their behavior and political decisions, but that’s largely because they also don’t recognize racism, in themselves and fellow whites. The American brand of fascism is “fertilized” by racism, an evil ideology that is embedded in the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Iran in Obama’s Cross Hairs
19 Oct 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama has become the Great Interventionist, eclipsing George Bush, who only wished he were good at it. Not satisfied to have outdone half of the previous presidential tag-team, Obama takes on Dick Cheney for the title of…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Occupy Wall Street: What You Can Demand versus What You Must DO
19 Oct 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Occupy Wall Street activists are under some pressures to come up with demands to make of the powerful. However, “in many cases, there is no point in demanding anything from your enemy, except that he drop dead in a hurry.” If Wall Street is an…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Occupy Wall Street, Denounce the Democrats
12 Oct 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If the Occupation Wall Street is to be truly independent of both banker-funded political parties, they will have to include the Democrats in their denunciations. There has been precious little direct criticism of the “other” pro-…