Militarist Obama and Corporate Nobel: Peaceful Partnership
Nobel PrizeObamaramaby Saswat Pattanayak“Nobel Prizes are offered by the royalists, the status quo upholders, the deniers of class society.” Such people don't want peace, but stability for the existing...
View ArticleTop Ten Reasons President Obama Should Give Back the Nobel Peace Prize
nuclear weaponsNobel PrizeAfghanistanIranIsrael-PalestinePakistanObamaramaRobert Gatesby BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon At the Nobel announcement of this year's peace prize a reporter asked the...
View ArticleFreedom Rider: “War is Peace” Prize
Nobel PrizeObamaramaby BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyBarack Obama is nothing if not a man of “firsts.” America’s first Black president has earned the dubious honor of possibly...
View ArticleUPDATE: The American Dilemma in Libya: To Bomb, Invade, Partition, Or All of...
LibyaObamaramaMuammur Al GadafiSusan Riceby BAR executive editor Glen FordUPDATED: As Khadafi’s forces prepare to encircle the rebel stronghold at Benghazi, western media remain curiously unable to...
View ArticleFreedom Rider: Revoke Obama’s Peace Prize
Nobel PrizeObamarama by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyNever in living memory has a Noble Peace Prize recipient gone on to cause more death and misery than Barack Obama, who now puts...
View ArticleFive Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal
drone warsObamaramaby Bill Quigley The United States is engaged in assassination and war crimes by drones in at least five nations around the globe, in violation of both U.S. and international law. It...
View ArticleDon't Be Fooled. Cory Booker, Barack Obama & the Whole Black Political Class...
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonDid Newark mayor Cory Booker really cross the Obama campaign when he defended vampire capital companies like Romney's Bain? Or was he just being truer to his own,...
View ArticleObama 2012 Smacks Down Jim Clyburn For Criticizing Bain & Vampire Equity...
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonFool me once, the saying goes, shame on you. Fool me again --- you know the rest. But what do we call it when Obama supporters willingly deceive themselves about...
View ArticleObama, at War on Three Continents, Threatens Venezuela
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen FordNo sooner does Obama break the ice with Cuban, than he turns up the imperial heat on Venezuela, the other openly socialist government in the...
View ArticleObama's War Plans Against Venezuela: Another Act of Imperial Desperation
oil and resource warsVenezuelaObamaramaby Danny HaiphongU.S. manic belligerence towards Venezuela may seem counterproductive, given Washington’s growing isolation in Latin America. But the logic of...
View ArticleMy Wise Country Cousin on Blak Folk an de 8 yr Blues…
Obamaramapoetryby BAR's poet in residence Raymond Nat TurnerWith the clock ticking down on Barack Obama's presidency, black America discovers it was a marriage of conveninece. And not ours.My Wise...
View ArticleFreedom Rider: Obama’s Africa Hypocrisy
EthiopiaKenyaObamaramaBy BAR editor and Senior Columnist Margaret KimberleyThe president's visit to East Africa has been the occasion for the same kind of hypocritical finger pointing Barack Obama...
View ArticlePretty Words, Ugly Actions: The Obama Legacy on Climate Change
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonApart from the times he called himself the president of “clean coal”, President Obama always talked a better climate change game than his Republican opponents. But...
View ArticleBarack Obama, Tell the Truth About Ethiopia!
EthiopiaObamaramaAlemayehu G. MariamLast month, President Obama declared that Ethiopia has a “democratically elected government.” That is the country where, in May elections, the ruling party won all...
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