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Banned by 119 Countries, U.S. Cluster Bombs Continue to Orphan Yemeni Children By Alex Emmons and Mohammed Ali Kalfood
Jim Crow is Back: Greg Palast: By Rejecting Recount, Is Michigan Covering Up 75,000 Ballots Never Counted?
Senate Quietly Passes The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act” (ZHE) While we wait to see if and when the Senate will pass (and president will sign) Bill H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which was passed by the House at the end of November with an overwhelming majority and which seeks to crack down on websites suspected of conducting Russian propaganda and calling for the US government to “counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly,” another, perhaps even more
Freedom Rider: Fighting for Southern Human Rights The South, where more than half of the Black U.S. population lives, has based its economic appeal on the stinginess of its social safety net, the relative poverty of its people, and the savagery of its criminal justice system. Capitalism truly turns morality upside down. Mississippi is considered good for business because its “retrograde history of slavery and Jim Crow segregation creates a compliant and largely non-unionized source of labor.” by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley 
Gabbard’s Law: To End War on Terror, Stop Arming Terrorists If Tulsi Gabbard, Barbara Lee and a handful of other lawmakers have their way, Washington’s so-called “moderate” rebels in Syria would be cut off from American money and arms. The U.S. would also “be compelled to cut off aid to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Israel, the biggest recipient of U.S. aid in the world.” The U.S. proxy war on Syria has always been illegal; Gabbard’s bill would make it doubly so. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford 
A Lesson from Standing Rock There have been very few people’s victories under the Obama administration. His corporate policies have prevailed mainly by default, due largely to the failure of progressives to confront the First Black President. “The anti-war movement has been buried in the Democratic Party graveyard throughout the duration of Obama’s tenure.” The Standing Rock Sioux, however, never waivered in their determination, and faced down Big Energy and the U.S. government. by Danny Haiphong
The Election of Donald Trump and the Implosion of Liberalism Trump’s victory signals the inevitable implosion of the liberal order. This will pave the way for construction of the alternative, which comprises: at the national level, the abandonment of liberal economic management for the benefit of sovereign projects, giving rise to social progress; and at the international level, the construction of a system of polycentric globalization. by Samir Amin
Trump’s Education Pick Will Continue Chartered Destruction of Detroit Schools A fabulously rich white woman who has never been a public school parent or student — and who seems to despise public education – has been tapped for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos is largely to blame for the fact that 80 percent of Michigan charter schools are for-profit. She comes from a world that is implacably hostile to Black and poor communities. “Their reality sees our children as sources of profit and our educated adults as threats.” by Shea Howell
Can the Black Panthers Offer Jamaicans Lessons on Checking Police Violence? The Caribbean is the source of many voices of liberation — Franz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Kwame Toure, Bob Marley — but Jamaica, in particular, might do well to study the experience of the Black Panther Party, which began as an armed cop-watch program. Tivoli Gardens, where police killed 70 people in 2010, would also “be in full agreement with Franz Fanon’s articulation of the role of the police.” by Ajamu Nangwaya 
Fidel’s Legacy to the World on Theory and Practice People who know nothing about history or politics try to frame Fidel Castro as a stereotypical doctrinaire communist. The opposite is true: Castro has been described as “the anti-dogmatist par excellence.” He had an extraordinary ability to link theory and practice “like no other revolutionary of the 20th and early 21st centuries.” Castro seized “the moment based on the needs and aspirations of the vast majority of Cuban people at any given time.” by Arnold August 
The Oil Siege Is Over, “The Cartel” Looks East The western-backed collapse of oil prices has abated, and most of the targeted governments are still standing, partly because China has not cooperated with the siege. “The intention with the drop (siege) was to put Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Ecuador, and Bolivia out of business.” The lesson is clear: “Despite the US victory in the Cold War, the monopolists do not have the unipolar world they desire.” by Caleb T. Maupin
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