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Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Coup Plotters in Venezuela Have no Significant Social Base
26 Nov 2019
“It’s pretty obvious that there is no significant force that wants to overthrow” the government in Venezuela, said Dario Azzelini, a visiting fellow in Latin American Studies at Cornell University
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Margaret Kimberley: US Government and Media Collude in Propaganda
26 Nov 2019
The US and corporate media lie about Washington’s regime change projects around the world and about the endemic theft of Black votes at home, said BAR senior columnist Margaret Kimberl
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Book Review: Learning From the Soviet Collapse to Ignite a Socialist Revival
20 Nov 2019
The rise of liberal capitalist tendencies in the Communist Party led to Perestroika and the eventual overthrow of Soviet socialism.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Victoire Ingabire Walks a Knife Edge in Rwanda
20 Nov 2019
The mass murderer that the US helped put in power in Rwanda flew into a raging rant against the woman who symbolizes the hopes of that country’s majority.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
A War Criminal Chastises Children
20 Nov 2019
“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 Nov 2019
This week readers discuss Trump and Syria, Obama’s presidency, and the return of McCarthyism. We share your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicholas Jones’s “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain”
20 Nov 2019
“Behaving, talking, and sounding too black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zachary Casey’s A Pedagogy of “Anticapitalist Antiracism”
20 Nov 2019
Many antiracist practices in schools are almost immediately coopted, privatized, and rendered ineffective.
Vijay Prashad
After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia
20 Nov 2019
The main target in Bolivia is the nation’s massive deposits of lithium, crucial for the electric car.
Jeb Sprague
Bolivian Coup Plotters Were Trained by US Military and Served as Attaches in FBI Police Programs
20 Nov 2019
Commanders of Bolivia’s military and police who helped plot the coup were educated for insurrection at the US military’s School of the Americas and FBI training programs.