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Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
01 Apr 2020
This week readers discussed the coronavirus’s relationship to NATO, sanctions, and the duopoly.
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South African Police Unleash Water Cannons and Rubber Bullets During Virus Lockdown
01 Apr 2020
The lockdown included bans on any sales of alcohol and cigarettes and even barred exercises outside the home.
Alan MacLeod
IMF Conditions Emergency COVID-19 Loan to Venezuela on Regime Change
01 Apr 2020
The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for week of March 30, 2020
30 Mar 2020
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Things Fall Apart
30 Mar 2020
Citing the novel by Chinua Achebe, political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal notes: “We see outside our doors, our windows, a world we did not know, that now exists.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Can Black Marxists Imagine the Unimaginable?
30 Mar 2020
“There’s always something new that we couldn’t anticipate,” said Minkah Makalani, professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Bernie Sanders’ Socialism Isn’t the Real Thing
30 Mar 2020
When North Carolina writer and activist Joshua Briond was introduced to the words, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” he knew that Be
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
30 Mar 2020
Can the corporate state hold, “or will it collapse under the weight of mass opposition and mass ‘distancing’ from the authority of the state?” asks Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteir
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time of Plague and Meltdown: Mass Murder by Corporate Duopoly
26 Mar 2020
The shrinking of the public health sector is a capitalist crime, abetted by the two corporate parties.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The U.S. is a Failed State, and COVID-19 Proves it
25 Mar 2020
The United States’ capitalist and imperialist economy cannot provide a modicum of social welfare to its people and has been in perpetual war with Black Americans and Indigenous Peoples since its fo