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Lewis Raven Wallace
In This Small Georgia City, an Unpaid Court Fine Can Get Your Utilities Cut Off
03 Apr 2019
Located 40 miles south of Atlanta, LaGrange uses local utilities as a form of social control. “The story of LaGrange reeks of the systemic racism in both Flint and Ferguson.” At an MLK Day celebration in LaGrange, Georgia, a few years ago, a man approached Ernest Ward, then-president of the Troup…
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Zimbabwean Communists Say Handing Over Mineral Resources to Foreign Firms is Treason
03 Apr 2019
Zimbabwe’s new “open for business” posture apparently means, “Come and take all of our resources.” “Ownership of mineral resources is the birthright of Zimbabweans.” The ZANU(PF)-led government of Zimbabwe recently announced that the indigenization rule, which prohibits foreign mining companies…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Paul Steinbeck’s “Message to Our Folks”
03 Apr 2019
The members of the Art Ensemble represented “five different articulations of Africanity.” “The musicians organized themselves as a cooperative.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ruma Chopra’s “Almost Home”
03 Apr 2019
This is a story about the ways in which the Maroons positioned themselves within a powerful and expanding empire. “Claiming descent from the Maroons is a sign of great pride.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 Apr 2019
This week readers wanted to discuss Tulsi Gabbard’s views on war and Barack Obama’s black critics. Thoughtful responses came for “Get Tulsi Gabbard On the Debate Stage” and “A True Defense of Smiley and West”.
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Commemorating the Rwandan Genocide: A Senate Resolution in Praise of Blood
03 Apr 2019
Citing the Rwandan bloodbath, the US Senate is considering yet another measure justifying so-called “humanitarian” military intervention. “The Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front massacred hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
American Exceptionalism is at the root of the Fake News Epidemic Attempting to Overthrow Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
03 Apr 2019
American exceptionalism is a white exceptionalism that portrays the U.S. as a society rooted in democracy rather than slavery, liberty rather than brutality and genocide. “Nothing that the U.S. corporate media or the political establishment has said about Venezuela is true.”
Дэвид Свонсон
Putin Claims to Have Sabotaged Mueller Report
03 Apr 2019
Trump could shoot Putin in the middle of Red Square and would still be seen as a Russian asset by true believers in CIA propaganda. “Trump would appear at odds with Putin.” 1 April 2019, Moscow — In an interview Sunday evening on Russian television, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to…
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Demands Black Caucus Hold Hearings on US Militarization of Africa
03 Apr 2019
As part of its “US Out of Africa” campaign, BAP collected thousands of signatures demanding Black lawmakers fulfill their responsibilities to Africa and peace. “The collective voice of elected Black leaders has been muted and overtaken by war drums.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Ms. Cortez Goes to Washington
04 Apr 2019
“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.” —Lucy Parsons Bloody flashbacks: southern senators sitting on Capitalist Hill…’til Rigor mortis set in… evolution of African-American voting