Black Agenda Report co-founder Glen Ford transitioned on July 28, 2021. This week I’m reporting from Caracas, Venezuela where I’m part of an International Peoples Tribunal on US Imperialism and fact finding mission which will hold a hearing on the issue of US economic coercive measures, commonly known as sanctions, which have been waged against Venezuela by the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. In honor of Glen’s memory, I will read from a 2019 article he wrote when Donald Trump began his maximum pressure campaign against Venezuela. He titled this piece, “The Racist, Imperialist War Against Venezuela.”
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Bernie exposed the white supremacist and imperialist contradictions of white feminism to the disinfecting sunlight of reason.
Poultry-processing plants are critical sites of racial capitalist accumulation produced through an unequal valuation of people and places.
This week voting in November and the crisis of the Democratic Party was on your mind.
Required reading for black study and abolition: a syllabus for an abolitionista on the run. “Abolition requires an ongoing radical belief in the impossible.”
