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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Food Stamp Corporate Welfare
16 Oct 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If you think the SNAP food stamps debate is about poor people’s need to eat, you’re wrong. It’s about big corporations’ need to profit. “Xerox, JPMorgan Chase and eFunds Corporation have all successfully turned poverty into a profit center.” So…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Death and Somalia
02 Oct 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley U.S. corporate media deploy the most technically sophisticated information delivery systems in the world – yet fail to tell even a semblance of the truth when it comes to American crimes abroad. Satellites brought images of horror from a…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Wilson Goode, Barack Obama and the Good Negro
25 Sep 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In the documentary Let the Fire Burn, former Philadelphia mayor Wilson Good comes off as the hollowest man, dissembling, changing his story and evading questions but ultimately admitting that he approved the horrific plan which killed little…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bill Thompson Loses and Black People Win
18 Sep 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Bill Thompson thought he could get the Black vote simply by being the only Black candidate in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York. Thompson didn’t work hard or address the Black community, except to “caution against ‘over reacting’ to…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama Comes Undone
11 Sep 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Russia has been a stalwart for peace in the Syria crisis. “It is their insistence on defending Syria which has brought the world from the brink and forced the president to postpone the congressional vote that he so badly wanted.” The contrasts…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: American Hell for Syria
28 Aug 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley With the imminent attack on Syria, Barack Obama prepares to add to his personal legacy of illegal wars based entirely on lies. The corporate media will eagerly sell the newest U.S. aggression, starting with the absurd premise that Syria would…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
26 Nov 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “The Thanksgiving story is an absolution of the Pilgrims, whose brutal quest for absolute power in the New World is made to seem both religiously motivated and eminently human…. The Mayflower's cultural heirs are programmed to find glory in their own depravity, and…
Anthony Monteiro
Nelson Mandela, The Contradictions Of His Life And Legacies
11 Dec 2013
by Anthony Monteiro Nelson Mandela lived a long life, with 3 careers, one before he was locked up, another while in prison, and a third after his 1990 release. Dr. Anthony Monteiro reflects upon the life, the lessons and the legacies of Nelson Mandela.
Harold Green
South Africa and Zimbabwe: A Tale of Two Land Reforms
18 Dec 2013
by Harold Green When Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe attended the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, he “received the loudest cheers and applause” among the dignitaries. Zimbabwe’s successful land reform stands in stark contrast to South Africa, where “barely 10% of farm land has been redistributed,”…
Anthony Monteiro
Nelson Mandela, Free Market Capitalism and the South African Crisis
18 Dec 2013
by Anthony Monteiro The veil must be lifted from the deliberations and machinations that led Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress to discard the people’s Freedom Charter in favor of an accommodation with white capital, in the early Nineties. Why, at South Africa’s most critical juncture…