The newly founded Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) issued a joint statement denouncing U.S. “destabilization” and “attempts to cause regime change” in Venezuela. “We share the objective to revive the anti-war movement -- the anti-imperialist movement in the U.S.,” said BAP organizer Ajamu Baraka, the veteran human rights activist and 2016 Green Party vice presidential candidate. “We are, of course, committed to peace, but we understand that there can be no peace without justice, and that means people have to be prepared for struggle,” said Baraka.
Cory Booker rose to prominence as a fanatical backer of school privatization, yet poses as a friend of public education and teachers.
This week the reader discussion was on the limits of electoral democracy in the United States and the accommodation of diversity in American imperialism.
The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa.
The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy.
Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted.
