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Patrick D. Anderson
WikiLeaks, Still Revealing Truths About Power, Officially Launches Bibliography
02 Sep 2020
The interpretations of and commentaries in the bibliography vary widely, from unquestionable support for WikiLeaks to outright hatred of Assange.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Biden Offers Nothing But More War, Austerity and White Supremacy – Without Trump
27 Aug 2020
Biden is an unreconstructed racist and warmonger who has been in the forefront of austerity, and Harris is a party hack and mass Black incarcerator who became a prosecutor with police union endorse
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats are Officially Republicans
26 Aug 2020
The Democrats claim to be the opposition party, but they seek out Republicans, hate the left of their own party, and don’t seem to care if they lose the election.
Anthony Monteiro
James Baldwin Still Matters and Eddie Glaude’s Book on Him Doesn’t
26 Aug 2020
Glaude has done a great injustice to Baldwin, turning the great Black writer and thinker into a mere liberal burned out by trauma and a sense of his fragility.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For my Postal Worker Brothers and Sisters
26 Aug 2020
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” --Herodotus
Jahan Choudhry Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
26 Aug 2020
This week you discussed the Biden-Harris ticket and the country’s political prisoners.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Liat Ben-Moshe’s “Decarcerating Disability”
26 Aug 2020
Disability studies looks at disability as an identity and culture and not as a deficit to be corrected.
Hilary Malson
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
26 Aug 2020
The author examines literature that looks to sites of struggle to find the seeds of an alternative, more just future.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Obama, Harris and the Ruse of Racial Representation
26 Aug 2020
Racial liberalism attempts to shape the perspectives of communities of color through narrow ideas of national belonging, Manifest Destiny, and the American Dream.
Jon Jeter
A Political Comeback for the Ages: Biden's Improbable Nomination
26 Aug 2020
The same corporate media that shamelessly boosted Biden’s candidacy, even when his popularity plummeted, never question his sudden comeback at the polls.