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14th May Day Brigade
The Last Gasp
08 May 2019
The Empire’s position in the world is being challenged economically and politically. “These last gasps of The Empire depend on maintaining our alienation, exploitation, oppression and genocide” The following is the statement by the U.S. contingent of the 14thMay Day Brigade at the International…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lilian Calles Barger’s “The World Come of Age”
08 May 2019
Any Christian theology worth holding has to be engaged with the need for the liberation of the oppressed. “No social or political movement has succeeded in the U.S. without a significant role for religion.”
Lauren Smith
Venezuelan Embassy in DC Under Siege by Guaido’s Racist Mob
08 May 2019
Emboldened by Trump’s aggressions against Venezuela, fascist followers of the treasonous Juan Guaido have threatened and assaulted US activists safeguarding the property in Washington. “Their taunts are misogynistic, homophobic and racist.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Joe Biden Personifies a New “End of History,” This time for U.S. Imperial Rule
08 May 2019
Biden’s open support of corporate oligarchy and disdain for Black America won him the hearts and minds of the ruling class. “The contradictions of U.S. imperialism have become a drag on human progress itself.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Assange Is Not a Journalist (If Journalists Are Ass-Kissing Propagandists for the Ruling Class)
08 May 2019
High profile journalists have been jabbering about whether or not Julian Assange is really one of them. If “journalist” is understood to mean “ass-kissing propagandist for the ruling class,” then he most certainly is not.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Regime Change Coming Home?
08 May 2019
Limbo! How low can we go— Barr is set so low in its swamp draining elephantine donkey dung; We straddle razor blades between reich/revolution: Spinal Solution for the Fall of Rome …when’s regime change coming home? Day-o, day-o, day-o! Last days of Pompeo— daylight’s coming and We wanna smash Rome…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Mothers Dying in US
08 May 2019
Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power. “Racism condemns its Black and Native citizens to shorter and sicker life spans than prevail in much of what used to be called the Third World.”
Cory Morningstar , Wrong KInd Of Green
Extinction Rebellion Training, Or How To Control Radical Resistance From the "Obstructive" Left
09 May 2019
Extinction Rebellion (XR) officially launched on October 31, 2018. On November 2, 2018, a video was uploaded to the Extinction Rebellion YouTube account. The video documents the training session held by XR co-founder Roger Hallam: “This was filmed at the Extinction Rebellion Local Coordinator…
Jeff Bryant
Charter School Support Slipping Among Democrats
15 May 2019
Barack Obama was the nation’s most pro-charter president, but much of his party has grown leery of them. “The politics of charter schools have changed in the African American community.”
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?
15 May 2019
Has the US public become desensitized to the horrendous suffering inflicted by their government, or are they blissful co-imperialists? “What has produced this unprecedented state of brain demise, amorality and bizarre insensitivity to the suffering and pain of others?”