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Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Apr 2019
This week readers discussed identity politics and imperialism, the Green New Deal, and the legacies of communism and NATO. We share comments for “Green Party Necessary to Pass Green New Deal,” “Global NATO: A 70 Year History of Oppressors in Crisis,” and “
Amanda Reid
There Is a Scottsboro in Every Country
24 Apr 2019
The “Black Belt” was a vision of a sovereign black nation within the southern United States. “The Comintern explicitly endorsed the political self-determination—even the secession—of majority-black areas of the United States.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The War on WikiLeaks: Which Side Are You On?
24 Apr 2019
Assange’s arrest shows that "free speech" and "assembly" is defined as whatever the U.S. rulers are willing to tolerate. “The media in the U.S. is composed of corporate tools whose primary interest is the promotion of lies in the interests of power and profit.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Pompeo’s Truth About Lies
24 Apr 2019
The Secretary of State’s candid remarks remind us that US foreign policy is intended to punish those targeted as enemies, keep friends as vassal states, and disregard international law. “Pompeo is too stupid to keep his mouth shut.”
Whitney Webb
Saudi Arabia, Israel, US All Sought Bashir’s Ouster: So How Real Was the Sudan Revolution?
24 Apr 2019
This month's events in Sudan appear to be yet another example of foreign governments manipulating real dissent against an authoritarian government in order to install yet another authoritarian government more friendly to their interests but to the detriment of the people. This article was…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Stop Sanders: The Year of the Corporate Long Knives
25 Apr 2019
It is inconceivable that the Lords of Capital will tolerate a financial industry-slayer in the White House. They will thwart his campaign – by any means necessary. “The party’s corporate leadership is determined to make AOC and her left-Democrat colleagues an endangered species on Capitol Hill.”
Dr. Johnny E. Williams
Whiteness Explainer for Dummies
01 May 2019
Some alumnae of Trinity College went bonkers when the author tweeted that “Whiteness is Terrorism.” “Critical systemic white racism scholars recognize the centrality of ‘race’ as myth and whiteness as an ideological component in facilitating racial capitalism.”
Adam Johnson
Dozens Condemned by Media as ‘Gang Members’ Not Actually Gang Members, Study Confirms
01 May 2019
Corporate media are racist megaphones for the mass Black incarceration state, criminalizing whole communities like electronic lynch mobs. “The majority of those arrested were not ‘gang members’ at all.”
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns US Attempt to Impose Puppet Government on People of Venezuela
01 May 2019
So-called “liberals” and “progressives” all over the “western world” have endorsed Washington’s racist and brutal policy towards Venezeula. “Venezuelans will never allow themselves to be returned to the days when a rapacious oligarchy was able to deny them a democratic voice.”
Vincent Lloyd
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 1)
01 May 2019
The challenge for Black Study is to hold up examples of blackness that evade capture by the thought and institutions of the West. “Advocates of Black Study are often very suspicious of any institutional configuration.”