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- Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residenceOcher shadow bearing sculls and crossbones, ruby river draining from pyramid’s base an endless death rattle of bombs and drones Threatening to drown the whole human race
- Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist“The corporate media share in the culpability.”
- Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor“Democrats make gun violence in America the primary midterm election issue because the passage of single payer healthcare, a scale back of the military budget, or a reduction in poverty
- Ann Garrison , BAR contributor“Kagame in fact triggered the massacres and has ever since blackmailed the rest of the world over its failure to stop them—even though he himself threatened to
- Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist“The Black Alliance for Peace says the only institution with the right and power to protect the peace and resolve international conflict is the United Nations.