President Trump’s cancellation of the CIA’s longstanding mission to train, arm and finance a jihadist overthrow of the Syrian government is recognition that “the Obama war has basically failed,” said Ajamu Baraka, spokesperson for the newly organized Black Alliance for Peace and the Green Party’s 2016 vice presidential candidate. Given that the military and intelligence services rebelled against President Obama’s attempts to cooperate with the Russians in Syria, last year, “it remains to be seen to what extent these elements of the ‘deep state’ are going to obey that directive,” said Baraka, who is also an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report.
Disability studies looks at disability as an identity and culture and not as a deficit to be corrected.
The author examines literature that looks to sites of struggle to find the seeds of an alternative, more just future.
Racial liberalism attempts to shape the perspectives of communities of color through narrow ideas of national belonging, Manifest Destiny, and the American Dream.
The Black judge listed the injustices of “qualified immunity,” which allows police and other government officials to escape liability for their law breaking.
Some coronavirus deaths, especially early on, were mistakenly attributed to other causes.
