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Pascal Robert
The Great “Awokening” and Ruling Class Uses for Racial Grievance Discourse
09 Jun 2021
The Black political class is wedded to the centrist Democrats for its “fatback and biscuits” patronage. “Racism is the linchpin tool in keeping capitalism functioning in America.”
Jeff Bryant
Exposing the Motive for the Sudden Wave of Attacks on Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory
09 Jun 2021
What appears to be a dispute about academics is really a political tactic in the ongoing campaign to privatize public schools. “The people behind all these bills are overwhelmingly white, wealthier folks.”
Pavan Kulkami
AFRICOM Military’s Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests
09 Jun 2021
An AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise in the Mediterranean Sea, ostensibly to combat “irregular migration” and trafficking, is really about further militarizing Africa. “The main cause behind the explosion of terrorist organizations in the region was the 2011 Libyan war in which AFRICOM itself was…
Dan Cohen
New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia’s “Political Genocide”
09 Jun 2021
Known as the “Red Dance,” the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union in Colombia was apparently concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history. “Yair Klein trained the AUC, which committed bloodcurdling massacres all over the country.”
Roger D. Harris
Leftist Anti-Anti-Imperialism: Supporting Imperialism But With Caveats
09 Jun 2021
The phony Left dabbles in R2P interventions and claims the world is plagued by a plethora of imperialisms, thus letting the superpower and its allies off the hook. “The true anti-imperialist stance is no intervention – humanitarian or otherwise.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ladee Blu: Another Monroe Doctrine delivery system
09 Jun 2021
Raytheon’s craven raven Co-signing for mass murder: “Mowing the grass…” Now… Ladee Blu on a fool’s errand dis- seminating The Monroe Doctrine—this is what Black faces in high places look like: CAPITAL FLOWS AS IT PLEASES. EXTRACTIVE AND RAPACIOUS, IT CROSSES BORDERS WHEN IT WISHES. BUT YOU—LABOR—…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Ride: How Not to Celebrate Juneteenth
16 Jun 2021
Juneteenth has become the latest iteration of liberal capture of Black politics, opportunistic virtue signaling, and the intentional misrepresentation of America’s history. “An opportunity to discuss resistance against oppression has been turned into a substance-free feel good day.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Independent Media is Political, Too: A Defense of “State” or Publicly-Funded Media
16 Jun 2021
It is imperative for independent journalism to serve as the media arm of a movement that opposes the privatization of information and works toward the development of a public media apparatus. “Only fifteen percent of revenue for public broadcasting outlets comes from the federal government; the…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REPORT: Murdering Women in Nigeria, Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, May 1930
16 Jun 2021
British colonial officials turned their guns on women in two Nigerian towns in the 1920s, to put down protests against “head” taxes and levies on market stalls, killing scores. “Some say that the women’s uprising was the first major challenge to English colonial power in Nigeria and West Africa.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Town Crier’s List of Who’s Who in the capitalist state machine
16 Jun 2021
“Ain’t no power like the power of the people— ‘cause the power of the people don’t stop!” bouncing off summer skyscrapers; ricocheting off resistance Millenia righteous… Centuries overdue… So, what the bleep is Joe Munchkin? Another Mitch The Witch For The Rich? Kentucky turtle Kabuki Theater…