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Bill Quigley
Did a Racist Coup in a Northern Louisiana Town Overthrow its Black Mayor and Police Chief?
31 Mar 2010
by Jordan Flaherty Waterproof, Louisiana, and the region around it may be majority Black, but White Power is determined to prevail by any means necessary. White parish officials replaced the town’s African American mayor and arrested the Black police chief for kidnapping when he placed a lawbreaker…
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31 Mar 2010
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One of the World's Best Kept Secrets: Cuban Medical Aid to Haiti
07 Apr 2010
by Emily J. Kirk and John M. Kirk Consumers of U.S. corporate media were given the impression that the American invasion/disaster relief action was the primary foreign benefactor to Haiti’s hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims. Not so, not by a long shot. Cuba, Venezuela and the neighboring…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Lies About Iran
07 Apr 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Peace Prize winner in the White House continues to beat the drums of war with Iran, in perfect synch with the corporate media orchestra. “The New York Times was made privy to what has been called a ‘parlor game,’ of ‘Imagining an Israeli…
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Nine Myths about Socialism in the US
14 Apr 2010
by Bill Quigley So divorced from reality is the American political conversation, it becomes necessary to defend the good name of socialism by explaining that no such thing exists in the U.S. In fact, the United States government does less for its citizens than most of the rest of the world’s…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Slavery-Denial in Old Virginny
14 Apr 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The (white) South is perpetually rising again, flaunting its barbaric myths and lies. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is the latest unreconstructed rebel to seek 21st century respectability for the Confederacy. In fact, McDonnell and his low-…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
White Nationalism on the March
14 Apr 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The white nationalists of the Tea Party “movement” claim to abhor big government, but what they actually reject is a social contract with the non-white populations of the United States. Race is the subtext, the coded message of the Right's resurgence. The white…
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Liberation's Lies
21 Apr 2010
by Felicity Arbuthnot The current imperial offensive not only physically destroys human beings on an industrial scale, it debases the souls of the aggressors. The voices of U.S. helicopter pilots as they fire cannons into innocent Iraqis on a neighborhood street corner, testify to an anti-human, “…
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Transgender Community in New Orleans Claims Police Harassment
21 Apr 2010
by Jordan Flaherty Black transgender community members in New Orleans are fighting back against systematic police harassment and abuse. People are falsely arrested for prostitution and often charged with “crimes against nature.” Said one victim, “I want to go to the French Quarter and hang out and…
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The Diversity Dead-End
21 Apr 2010
by Robert Jensen Pro-“diversity” campaigns these days tend to degenerate into feel-good sessions in which white privilege is barely mentioned. Analysis of real-world power relations is not just absent, but actively discouraged as “divisive.” But progress is possible “only when we are willing to…