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- Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist“Members of the Congressional Black Caucus prove themselves to be happy tools of the neoliberal war party.”
- Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor“Our focus should be on stopping the wars that create refugees, including the fascistic war on the Black poor.”
- Ann Garrison , BAR contributor“Our biggest problem is that local polluters have poisoned our communities year after year with impunity. “
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor“The American people have been constantly manipulated and made to fear the Russian threat when it is the United States that has been the aggressive power.”