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Donna Murch
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
04 Sep 2019
The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always been the race and class of users. “The success of OxyContin hinged on racially bifurcated understandings of addiction.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Foreign Aid for Rwanda, Suffering for Rwandans and Congolese
04 Sep 2019
Rwanda is treated as a showcase of US-allied Africa, but even western capitalists don’t believe dictator Paul Kagame’s economic numbers, and his own fortune comes from looting Congo. “Kagame is the Clintons’ darling — which is a no-no with Trump.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Kamala Harris is the Face of the Democratic Party’s Protest Campaign against Bernie Sanders
04 Sep 2019
Harris’ candidacy has since day one operated as a protest campaign against Bernie Sanders. “Harris appears to be the elite’s most favored insurance policy.”
Johanna Bozuwa
Bernie Wants to Seize the Means of Electricity Production
04 Sep 2019
Bernie Sanders wants to take private profit out of the energy grid as part of his comprehensive Green New Deal plan. “'We will end greed in our energy system,’ says Sanders.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump Bombs New Silk Road with Tariffs
05 Sep 2019
The real target of Trump’s trade war is not, primarily, the Chinese, but the U.S.-based corporations that spent the last generation outsourcing manufacturing capacity (jobs) to China. “The Belt and Road Initiative is tying the planet together, with China at the center.”
Popular Resistance
Save the Planet and Stop the US War Machine! Sept 20-23
11 Sep 2019
It’s time for the US government to obey the United Nations Charter by stopping regime change operations, ending sanctions and ceasing military attacks. “We cannot confront climate change without confronting US militarism.” The People’s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save the…
Tory Russell
A Ferguson Organizer Reflects on the Aftermath
11 Sep 2019
We figured out pretty fast that hashtags don’t move white supremacists, and petitions don’t change policy for Black lives. “Though several of the Ferguson organizers have been shot and burned to death, some people who claim to love the people have been on MSNBC and haven’t even mentioned their…
Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Spikes of Violence: Protest in West Papua
11 Sep 2019
Papua and West Papua are subjected to violence and habitual repression from the Indonesian central authorities. “A policy of transmigration has been practiced, tantamount to genocide.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joseph Drexler-Dreis’s “Decolonial Love”
11 Sep 2019
Colonial relations of power and ways of classifying human persons that were essential to political colonialism have persisted. “Fanon and Baldwin commit to hastening the end of that which those committed to western modernity hold to be sacred.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nadine Ehlers and Leslie Hinkson’s “Subprime Health”
11 Sep 2019
Race-based medicine in the US has solidified health inequality and is bound up with indebtedness. “Racial health is a product of social conditions that come to register at the level of the body.”