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Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Biden, Putin and the Press
23 Jun 2021
The corporate media claim that President Biden went easy on Vladimir Putin outside the G7 meeting, but that’s only because Biden preferred to sic the imperial press hounds on the Russian president “The United States has declared Russia an enemy and openly supports people who want to bring about…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Appearance Versus Essence: Biden is Stabilizing, Not Ending, Neoliberalism
23 Jun 2021
For neoliberalism to truly end, austerity and privatization must also come to an end and universal public programs such as nationalized healthcare and free higher education must exist within a context of peace. “A massive increase in the standard of living of workers and oppressed people must occur…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REVIEW ESSAY: A Truncated Story of Black Rebellion, Charisse Burden-Stelly
23 Jun 2021
Black violence functioned as both a political challenge to racial domination and a political rationale for both the intensification and normalization of aggressive and pervasive policing in poor Black communities. “Hinton exceptionalizes the U.S. in her study, ignoring the broader revolutionary…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Town Crier’s Big Tooth Fund (For Drs. Rosenthal, Sapir and Ferdowsi)
23 Jun 2021
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs…” —Karl Marx Reclined in my dentist’s chair, daydreaming in Numbers: #s 13, 15, 18, 19— “5 on # 13; 7 on # 15; 5 on # 18; 7 on # 19—“ Problematic, impacted, subtracted, divided—fractured, cracked numbers… Unequal distal-lingual …
Jennifer Bendery
Texas Governor Signs Law to Stop Teachers from Talking about Racism
23 Jun 2021
Texas mandates that its schools see no racism, hear no racism, and teach nothing about racism, racial oppression or racial capitalism. “The Texas measure is part of a nationwide effort by conservative Republicans to enact laws that prevent the teaching of ‘critical race theory.’” Texas Republican…
Dr. Gerald Horne
BAR Book Forum: Gerald Horne’s Jazz and Justice
23 Jun 2021
He was stunned to ascertain that Europe was less racist toward those like himself in comparison to his homeland; “One study concludes that jazz served to sustain ‘anti-Americanism’ and this artistic bent also meant ‘solidarity with African Americans in opposition to white Americans.’”
Sara Flounders and Roger D. Harris
The Case of Alex Saab - US Abduction of Venezuelan Diplomat, a Global Challenge
23 Jun 2021
The case involves the kidnapping of a diplomat by the world’s sole superpower locked in an unequal struggle to destroy the formerly prosperous, oil rich country of Venezuela. “Alex Saab has withstood a year-long arrest, torture, months of solitary confinement rather than comply with U.S. demands to…
Henry A. Giroux
To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing
23 Jun 2021
The same activists who are working to defund the police are also part of a collective movement to bring an end to neoliberal capitalism. “The call for law and order repeatedly served as a smokescreen for racist and militarized police practices that equated Black behavior with criminality.”
Gregory P. Downs
The Hidden History of Juneteenth
23 Jun 2021
“We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time,” said Felix Haywood, dismissing the notion that his fellow Texas slaves were ignorant of the Emancipation Proclamation. “Ending slavery was not simply a matter of issuing pronouncements, but of forcing rebels to obey the law.”
Stephen Sefton
Nicaragua's Benedict Arnolds – Political Opposition as Organized Crime
23 Jun 2021
Under Nicaraguan law, it is a crime to seek foreign interference in the country's internal affairs. “The current investigation is likely to determine whether or not the violent opposition were planning another coup attempt in the context of this year's elections.”