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Annie Lowrey
The People Who Think Bernie Is Moderate
04 Sep 2019
To socialist candidates, even the left-most Democrat isn’t left enough. “Third parties argue that the Democratic Party is irredeemably compromised and that voters deserve true alternatives.”
Global Information Network
Gambians Glued to YouTube as President’s Hit Squad Confesses
04 Sep 2019
Deposed Gambian President Jahya Jammeh, a strong ally of the US, was a mass killer whose henchmen are now confessing on streaming media. “Jammeh is in exile in Equatorial Guinea, where he has been granted refuge.” Truth is stranger than fiction and in the west African nation of Gambia, the truth…
Chelli Stanley
Jussie Smollett, the Chicago Police Department, and the Appearing/Disappearing Video Footage Trick
04 Sep 2019
The cops “investigating” the Smollett case have long records of racist brutality, evidence tampering and lying – facts the corporate media ignored. “The nation heard a daily, jarring cacophony: CPD bragging about how great its detective work is.” They say tell it like is, so...
Anonymous
The Black Misleadership Class Shuffles Along and Rides Again
04 Sep 2019
The president of predominantly Black Hampton University debased himself by speaking at Liberty University, founded by the Christian racist Jerry Falwell. “Black misleaders have convinced the masses that neo-colonialism is the reasonable and viable replacement for colonialism.”
by Louis Jefferson
Anthem 4 Rappers Wrapped in The Flag
04 Sep 2019
Oh Jay Can U C By the dawn of Imperialist greed They will eat u 2 After they fatten u up to deceive U took the bait So they call u great The white man’s oldest trick in the book Oh Jay can u c We got them on the ropes But u given em hope sellin that dope Marcy project style We should’ve known…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tiffany King’s “The Black Shoals”
04 Sep 2019
Black abolition and Native decolonization have the unique capacity to end the “conquistador settler U.S. nation” and make way for something else. “The term ‘settler colonialism’ is too polite and tepid for the kind of brutal and quotidian violence that Indigenous and Black people in the US and…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Paul Ortiz’s “An African American and Latinx History of the United States”
04 Sep 2019
The United States is based on a system of racial capitalism that endures to this day. “The Virginia Planters and Pennsylvania Bankers of the 1770s would have loved Trump.”
Cheikh Amma Diop
Reality Check: Bank of England Governor Criticizes the Petrodollar!
04 Sep 2019
When a capitalist governor of an imperialist nation’s central bank says alternatives to the US dollar are necessary, big change is afoot. “European-American capitalists are determined to retain their supremacy by any means necessary without regard for friend or foe.”
Mike Siegel
Dissent Is Being Criminalized Right Under Our Noses
04 Sep 2019
If you painted “Black Lives Matter” on a wall to advocate against police violence, that could be prosecuted as terrorism. “Federal prosecutors could charge terrorism if actions might ‘affect’ or ‘influence’ a government policy.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin: de Low-leeta Xpress a Bi-Party-sin Flight
04 Sep 2019
Humph, an’ to think dey made “Birth ob de Nation“ spreadin’ dat filth— dat rotten disinformation— I bet dis what shrinks mean wit dey word, “projekshun?” (but Boss Tweet big shoe show mosly mis-direkshun…) White boy-Terris, lak de real rapists, is homegrown— ax me, it’s bred-in-de-bone—lak…