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Adam Szetela
Sanders’ “Miscreants”
25 Mar 2020
From welfare queens and super predators to “Bernie brothers,” the democratic establishment is never short of boogeymen. “Bernie Sanders’ supporters have come to personify the repugnant behavior that has always been associated with those who benefit the least from capitalism.”
Wilmer J. Leon III
The Dangers of Binary Politics for the African American Community
25 Mar 2020
We have traded our interests in for “electability” and “anybody but Trump.” “Remember ‘ending welfare as we know it’ under Clinton and Obama’s failed ‘Grand Bargain’”?
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Time of Plague and Meltdown: Mass Murder by Corporate Duopoly
26 Mar 2020
The shrinking of the public health sector is a capitalist crime, abetted by the two corporate parties. “There is now no possibility of avoiding many tens of thousands of deaths due to a shortage of equipment, beds and health care personnel.”
Human Outbreak Response
Humanity Not Cages: Demanding a Just and Humane Response to Outbreak
25 Mar 2020
With 2.3 million people in the United States in prison or jail on any given day, an outbreak in these facilities poses a threat to the entire country. “At no point should any facility be on lockdown.“ It is not a matter of if but when the coronavirus will enter prisons and jails, according to…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: COVID-19 and Black Workers
01 Apr 2020
The gross inequalities and declining standards of life in the US are magnified by the corona crisis, pushing already marginalized populations to the brink. “The supposedly great nation is just a failed state with a big army and a powerful oligarchy.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
China and Cuba’s Medical Internationalism is a Shining Example of Global Solidarity
01 Apr 2020
China sends medical equipment abroad, Cuba sends doctors and cutting-edge drugs, but the US fails to provide its people, doctors and nurses with basic tools and protection. “How is it that the entire capitalist economy can grind to a halt while trillions continue to be pumped into waging war abroad…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Flattening the curve on Capitalism?
01 Apr 2020
CEO from Boeing to CEO from Wells Fargo, heard by the flies on walls at Mar-a-Lago: “It’s their health or our economy— we get to choose…” “Yes, like ’08— Heads we win—and tails they loose?” “Gentlemen, toast to health risk over economic risk— and let’s be like Mike, with cures like stop and frisk…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes
01 Apr 2020
The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality is a fundamental characteristic of the system. “Billions of dollars were allocated to business while millions of people are facing an increasingly desperate…
John G. Russell
Racial Profiling Disorder: the All-American Pandemic
01 Apr 2020
RAPROD carriers are convinced that blacks disproportionately carry guns and other contraband. “Cellphone cameras and access to social media have become a mandatory survival tool like condoms during the HIV/AIDs crisis.” “Please, please help me. No, I don’t want to put handcuffs on. No! Don’t put…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
01 Apr 2020
This week readers discussed the coronavirus’s relationship to NATO, sanctions, and the duopoly.