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  • Protest and Power
    Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
    Protest and Power
    02 Jul 2020
    Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is coming apart at t
  • Freedom Rider: Russia, Afghanistan, and the Big Lie
    Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Russia, Afghanistan, and the Big Lie
    01 Jul 2020
    Far from being an enemy, Russia assisted the U.S. and its coalition in their fight against the Taliban.
  • Neocolonial African Conservation Inspired by “Tarzan”
    Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
    Neocolonial African Conservation Inspired by “Tarzan”
    01 Jul 2020
    Ann Garrison responds to a critic of neocolonial nature “conservation” in Africa, and discusses US-backed threats to national sovereignty and all forms of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Syria, Corporate Media Lies, and the True Face of Imperialism: An Interview with Richard Medhurst
    Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
    Syria, Corporate Media Lies, and the True Face of Imperialism: An Interview with Richard Medhurst
    01 Jul 2020
    If independent media want to be a real counterweight to establishment media, they must challenge the status quo in its entirety.
  • How Do You Spell Desecration of African Burials?: “Nigger!”
    Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
    How Do You Spell Desecration of African Burials?: “Nigger!”
    01 Jul 2020
    Much of the nation may be repudiating white supremacy, but not Montgomery County, Maryland, which is paving over sacred  Black ground in an attempt to bury its own racist history.
  • Amiri Poem for Boss Tweet
    Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    Amiri Poem for Boss Tweet
    01 Jul 2020
    Who tolt us ‘bout an unknown 19th of June— who the TikTok teens cast as buffoon? Who? Who say Douglass alive and doin’ good work— who turn the War House into a grifter perk? Who?
  • Is “Black Lives Matter” a Therapeutic Mantra for White Guilt?
    Mark P. Fancher
    Is “Black Lives Matter” a Therapeutic Mantra for White Guilt?
    01 Jul 2020
    Many who took to the streets were out there to engage in a form of mass group therapy.
  • Letters from Our Readers 
    Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
    Letters from Our Readers 
    01 Jul 2020
    This week community control of police and the failings of the Biden campaign were on your minds.
  • BAR Book Forum: Nicole Fleetwood’s “Marking Time”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Nicole Fleetwood’s “Marking Time”
    01 Jul 2020
    Incarcerated activists have so many tools and skills to teach about resisting brutal regimes.
  • BAR Book Forum: Edward Onaci’s “Free the Land”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Edward Onaci’s “Free the Land”
    01 Jul 2020
    The desire for US citizenship was never the sole consideration of African and African-descended people.
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