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Dr. Barbara Reynolds
Salacious FBI Information Again Attacks Character of MLK
27 Jun 2019
Coretta Scott King heard and dismissed the FBI tapes that writer David Garrow claims implicate Dr King in rape. Mrs. King often shared with me her distrust of Garrow because of his close ties to the F.B.I.,”
Ellen Brown
Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street
03 Jul 2019
Facebook reportedly has high hopes that Libra will become the foundation for a new financial system free of control by Wall Street power brokers and central banks. “Handing global power to the corporate-controlled Libra Association could be a nightmare.”
Jeff Bryant
Why Public Schools’ Best Days Could Be Ahead of Us
03 Jul 2019
Many school districts that were seized by the states are returning to local control, but without adequate funding. “They will continue to work to undermine the elected board and the public schools.”
Kweli Nzito
America’s Triple Addiction: Lies, Race and War
03 Jul 2019
A nation that claims to be a force for good should not need 800 military bases around the world to corroborate that claim. “America has earned for itself the dubious distinction of killing more innocents in unprovoked wars of aggression than the rest of the world combined.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Asad Haider’s “Mistaken Identity”
03 Jul 2019
We face a two-pronged menace: Trump, and the Democrats that failed to prevent his rise and won’t fight his policies. “Effective struggle against racism today requires us to return to the model of radical mass organizing, rather than the moralizing rhetoric of the contemporary liberal clerics.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Dana-Ain Davis’s “Reproductive Injustice”
03 Jul 2019
A world of reproductive justice must so be rooted in respect, care and a willingness to challenge all of the practices and beliefs that place people in hierarchical relations. “Black women’s reproduction sits at the intersection of medical control and racism.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening
03 Jul 2019
WikiLeaks made it possible for whistleblowers to expose government and corporate criminals anonymously. “The organization has never been compelled to retract a publication, and it has never busted a source.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Anti-imperialism is the Only Antidote for Austerity
03 Jul 2019
Privatization, predatory lending, and endless war are all preconditions to finance capital’s hegemony. “Any Democrat who dares to challenge the war machine is effectively marginalized.” Black Agenda Report contributor Danny Haiphong delivered he following remarks at BAR’s Left Forum panel, “Black…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
U.S. Militarism and the One-Sided Class War
03 Jul 2019
While the Democratic presidential candidates rehearsed their anti-Trump lines for the debates, most of the Democrats in the Senate voted for Trump’s record-breaking war spending bill. “The lopsided vote indicates that Democrats have fully embraced this insane policy of first-strike.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: U.S. Prisons are Concentration Camps
03 Jul 2019
There were already thousands of concentration camps in the United States before Donald Trump began his reign of terror over asylum seekers. They are called prisons. “All of the horrors meted out to Hondurans fleeing the government imposed upon them by the United States are already experienced by…