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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…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ask your doctor if Klobuchar is Right for you
04 Mar 2020
“Klobuchar may cause Serious side effects including dry mouth, blindness, deafness, recurring nightmares and suicidal thoughts… Don’t use Klobuchar if You’re allergic to TARP, white phosphorus, depleted uranium, cluster munitions, sanctions, surges, ghost detainees, enhanced interrogation, coups,…
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.”
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…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Fear Pervades Black Politics, and Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression
05 Mar 2020
Many Black voters recoiled in abject terror at the very thought that the Democratic Party – “our” party, in many Black folks’ minds – might fracture under the challenge of the Sandernistas. “The screechingly raucous, out-of-control Democratic debate in Columbia just days before the South Carolina…
Julian Vigo
When A Virus Hits Town, Racists Hit Back!
11 Mar 2020
Around the planet, from Peru to Melbourne to Paris, Asians are subjected to threats and abuse under the pretext of viral contagion. “I am not a VIRUS / I’m a HUMAN / ERADICATE THE PREJUDICE.”
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Remembering Callie House, an Early Reparations Advocate
11 Mar 2020
Her grassroots organization, the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association lobbied for federal legislation in support of pensions for formerly enslaved persons. “House sued the US Treasury Department for $68,073,388.99 in 1915 based upon the money raised from enslaved people’s…
Solomon Comissiong
Joe Biden and the Legacy of White Liberals Exploiting the Black Vote
11 Mar 2020
How bad do things need to get before Black folk start something new that is geared towards our collective and comprehensive liberation? “White liberals are just as corrupt and devilish and imperialist as Republicans.”
Andy Thayer
Can Bernie Save the Left?
11 Mar 2020
Do Sanders’ supporters really believe that even a totally principled leftist could turn the enormous repressive forces of the U.S. into forces for good? “We should never promote the dangerous illusion that elections themselves can fundamentally change the national state.” Every…
Lauren Smith
United States Imposed Economic Sanctions – The Big Heist
11 Mar 2020
There’s a lot more to the sanctions game than meets the eye, involving massive theft as well as intentional mass death. “Economic sanctions are class and race warfare.” “The victors hide behind banks, leveraged financial institutions (hedge funds) and major industries.”