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If the Left Doesn’t Critique Endless War, Who Will?
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
02 Mar 2020
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“We must raise the issues of war and imperialism in electoral politics in this country,” even if the Democrats don’t, said BAR senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, speaking at the annual conference of UNAC, the United National Anti-War Coalition. “In the debates, foreign policy is discussed very little, and when it is they all sound the same, even those who are supposed to be progressive,” said Kimberley.

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