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Disinformation in Tigray: Manufacturing Consent For a Secessionist War
19 May 2021
Corporate media in the imperial countries have spread disinformation on the real nature of the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray state. “Eritrea has served as the primary scapegoat.”
Gregory Shupak
Israel/Palestine Coverage Presents False Equivalency Between Occupied and Occupier
19 May 2021
“As an occupying power, Israel does not have a legal right to claim self-defense against the people it occupies.” Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Hoops and the Hype: Basketball Africa League Debuts in Rwanda
19 May 2021
The decision to debut the Basketball Africa League in Rwanda is a huge public relations coup for totalitarian, war criminal, and US military partner Paul Kagame, writes Ann Garrison. “Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa could do just as well at hosting an event to promote African talent.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Biden Breaks His Promises
27 May 2021
Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office. “If the Republicans are seen as the only enemy then we have already lost.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: The Meaning of African Liberation Day: Walter Rodney, May 27, 1972
26 May 2021
At the 1972 event, Walter Rodney proclaimed that “black unity must be international because we live on every continent, through no choice of our own.” Editors, Black Agenda Review “We are saying ‘yes’ to the struggle in Africa today … And we are saying ‘yes’ to people like the Soledad Brothers and…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Preachin’ to the Choir (for Joe, Linda, Tim…)
26 May 2021
2020’s hindsight—frost in the rearview mirror. Miles Ahead… I’m Sheltered in Solidarity with National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month— April in Boston—warm cider flows from the chat and screen… And I answer a question with a Question. How much harm is in Harmony? And I state for the…
David Theo Goldberg
The War on Critical Race Theory
26 May 2021
The critics want to wipe clear the actual history of racial oppression that is baked into the social and economic structures of the US. “The materials echo essays sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, which calls CRT ‘the new intolerance’ and ‘the rejection of the underpinnings of Western…
Dr. Gerald Horne
Against Left-Wing White Nationalism
26 May 2021
Much of what is called the “left” still insists that the American “revolution” of 1776 is “unfinished,” when history shows that white supremacy was the intended result. “Those who consider themselves to be sophisticated refer to an ‘Incomplete Revolution,’ as if the founders had in mind ‘others’…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Rothberg’s “The Implicated Subject”
26 May 2021
Most people contribute to injustice not as direct perpetrators but as indirect participants who enable, perpetuate, benefit from, and inherit histories of violence and contemporary systems of exploitation. “Solidarity does not require identification or similarity, but can emerge from understanding…
C. Riley Snorton
BAR Book Forum: C. Riley Snorton’s “Black on Both Sides”
26 May 2021
The inhabitation of the un-gender-specific and “fungible” also mapped the affective grounds for imagining other qualities of life and being for those marked by and for captivity. “The demarcation and annexation of territories and states evinced how slavery and settler colonialism structured…