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by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Late Stage U.S. Capitalism Fosters Death and Despair, But Can It Foster Class Unity?
18 Sep 2019
Self-determination is still an unknown concept to many despite the efforts of the movement for Black lives and related organizations. “The impulse for working class solidarity continues to be arrested by the racist and imperialist contradictions of U.S. society.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Believe Absolutely Nothing the US Government and Media Say About…Anything
19 Sep 2019
In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples. We betray ourselves and become Black Gringos. “The epic struggle for Black self-determination is inseparable from the struggle for peace and a livable…
Alexis L. Boylan
Race in Black and White
25 Sep 2019
Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art. “Matthew Fox-Amato’s Exposing Slavery is a valuable aid for thinking through the tangle of issues around race, sight, power, and bodies.” Review: Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human…
Ellen Brown
Central Bankers' Desperate Grab for Power
25 Sep 2019
The titans of finance capital are talking out loud about breaking the power of the dollar -- by boosting the power of bankers. “Better would be to nationalize the Fed and turn it into a true public utility.”
BAR staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
25 Sep 2019
Every year presents new challenges to those struggling for human liberation. For Black Agenda Report, the essential task remains the same as when we published our first issue, on October 26, 2006: to sustain a radical, Black-led publication that can effectively intervene in the great debates of our…
Brandon Do
Ho Chi Minh Through the Eyes of Martin Luther King Jr.
25 Sep 2019
They linked the destinies of Black America and Vietnam with one another and with the anti colonial struggles of Africa and Asia. “The two revolutionaries saw themselves as global citizens, as people who in their initiative to change the world also evolved into full beings.”
Garikai Chengu
Gaddafi vs the West: Two Revolutions on the Wrong Side of History
25 Sep 2019
Gaddafi's revolution created one of the 21st century's most profoundly successful experiments in economic democracy. “The West's objective was to oust Gaddafi, install a puppet regime, and gain control of Libya's natural resources.” This month marks half a century since Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan…
Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers and K.J.Noh
Why the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 Must Be Opposed
25 Sep 2019
An Open Letter to Congress not to make common cause with US hawks, Neocons, White Supremacists, and Hong Kong nativists and colonialists. “The US is already credibly accused of fomenting, supporting, and encouraging violence in the Chinese territory.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Stephen Gowans’ “Washington’s Long War on Syria”
25 Sep 2019
Three hostile foreign powers—Israel, Turkey and the United States—occupy parts of Syria in defiance of international law. “Washington seeks to inflame sectarian divisions to prevent Arabs coalescing as an independent political force.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi’s “BlackLife”
25 Sep 2019
The book seeks to unmake the idea that Black people in Canada occupy some “special” place in diaspora. “Liberal democratic societies are fundamentally in opposition to BlackLife fully thriving as a form of life.”