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Remember the Maine and the ‘Gulf of Tonkin Incident?’: Was a U.S. Ship Attacked by a Missile off the Coast of Yemen… or Not? The Pentagon Can’t Give Straight Answers The U.S. military has been backing and directly assisting in war crimes in Yemen for the past 18 months. By Sarah Lazare 
The Silicon Valley Candidate By refusing to release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street bankers, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton cast doubt on her independence from the crooks who run the financial system. By contrast, Clinton’s program for “technology and innovation policy” has been an open book since June 2016. What she publicized is as revealing – and as disturbing – as what she tried to keep secret. by Dan Schiller – Shinjoung Yeo
Why Is North Dakota Attempting to Mandate Who Should Report on Pipeline Protests? On September 8, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! received news of her arrest for reporting at the scene of the heated Dakota Access pipeline protests five days earlier during the Labor Day weekend. On October 17, she showed up at North Dakota’s Morton County courthouse to face the charge brought against her. It was quickly dropped by the judge for lack of probable cause. In reaction to this news, Goodman commented, “This is a vindication of freedom of the press, of the First Amendment, of the public’s right to know. I see the media really as the ‘Underground Railroad’ of information. And that information must continue on all things that are happening. That’s our job.” By Ashley Braun
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Unspeakable America The range of “speakable” political subjects is dwindling fast in the U.S. Even billionaire Donald Trump is treated as beyond the pale when he speaks of a “’global elite’ that has ‘stripped’ the U.S. of its wealth in order to line the pockets of corporate and political interests.” The New York Times calls that “anti-Semitic,” while Wikileaks is slimed as a stooge of Russian intelligence for reproducing Hillary Clinton’s own words. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
Freedom Rider: Henry Louis Gates’ $10 Million Scam Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, “the supreme hustler-in-chief of black America,” has sold his white corporate friends on a $10 million scheme to advise the rich on how to end Black poverty. The project claims to be “non-ideological” — another way of saying that only pro-business ideas will be entertained. Gates is helping his sugar daddies obscure the truth: “Black people are poor because of two things, capitalism and racism.” by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
South African Students March on the Chamber of Mines to demand #Fees Must Fall The Freedom Charter, the socialist document that united South Africans in the battle against apartheid, has become the focus of a new wave of activism among the nation’s students. Protests have shut down most of the country’s universities. “Activists are demanding that the mining industry and the profits from the minerals of South Africa be invested in the future of Black youth.” by BAR Editor and Columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo
Advancing Black Liberation Through Economic Justice Black America has always revered education as a stairway to progress, but the data show that “education has not created social mobility for Black people, and it has done little to close the Black-white wage gap.” Black millennials put far less trust in the U.S. electoral system, but are open to the kind of “clear, bold and intersectional policy demands” put forward in the Vision for Black Lives policy platform. by Benjamin Woods
The Black President and the Black-on-the-Inside Preacher, A Bad Day for Identity Politics The man most responsible for the death of six million Congolese – the worst genocide since World War Two – holds periodic celebrations in cities all around the world to celebrate the accomplishments of his regime. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is armed, financed and protected by the United States. When Kagame showed up in San Francisco last month, the author was there to mark the occasion. by Ann Garrison
A Canadian Vote for Trump: Let America Get a Taste of It’s Own Medicine Hillary Clinton is right; she does have the experience to be a U.S. president: a track record in slaughtering unlimited numbers of people. Donald Trump, the bombastic, “utterly cold psychopath,” is also well suited to the American presidency. He would build walls and set loose the police. The Americans deserve to be inflicted with Trump, so they can “get a taste of what other countries have had to accept at their own country’s hand.” by Oscar Wailoo
Hillary Clinton, The Democratic Party Plantation and The Black Political Pundits Who Do Their Bidding The Democrats and Republicans are both proven evils. “Donald Trump is a devoted racist and xenophobe and Hillary Clinton is an imperialist who has a track record of destroying human life.” Now if the time for Black people to “take possession of the politics within our communities and put forth our own revolutionary candidates who represent our collective interests.” by Solomon Comissiong
Why East Africa Should Reject an Economic Deal with Europe Europe is in crisis, and yet countries in East Africa are ready to sign on a poorly understood trade agreement with the EU whose overall impact will be disastrous for years to come. The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will favor trade in the direction of Europe and stunt African progress. Tanzania has hesitated and called for public debate. Tanzania should provide the bold leadership required in the region to reject the EPA. by Horace G. Campbell
What is money? – part three It has become popular to blame the crisis on such parasitic layers of spivs and speculators, given the role that the bloated financial sector played in the events leading up to the 2008 collapse of the banking system that marked the onset of the Great Recession. But whilst it is true that finance and banking have ballooned out of all proportion, dominating the world economy today, the reality is that usurers and money lenders have existed throughout capitalism’s history — indeed, going back further, as Engels notes in relation to ancient Greece, for as long as money itself. by Adam Booth
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