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BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
I Celebrate Red Roses of Resistance
30 Oct 2019
San Francisco singer sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, ringlets trickling down ‘round Angelic paper bag brown face, like sweat gathering on her glass of white wine. Her fries stand at attention, saluting from stainless steel cylinder. Bold white letters emblazon her tight-fitting black tee-…
Ben Norton
Grayzone Editor Arrested on Trumped Up Venezuela Embassy Charges
30 Oct 2019
Almost half a year after the siege of the Venezuelan embassy by a right-wing mob, a journalist who helped defend the embassy has been thrown in jail. “This charge is a 100 percent false, fabricated, bogus, untrue, and malicious lie.” Max Blumenthal, the editor of the news site The Grayzone,…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
History Demands: Turn Imperialist Wars Into Wars Against Imperialism
30 Oct 2019
US imperialism is white supremacist capital on a global rampage, and must be countered by mass mobilizations of the oppressed -- like this weekend’s Black Is Back Coalition march on the White House. “Now is the time to throw off all hesitation, open up new fronts of struggle and to launch…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Baghdadi Scam
30 Oct 2019
The Democrats and corporate media don’t really oppose what Donald Trump is doing in Syria or anywhere else. “In the end it doesn’t matter if Baghdadi is dead or when or how he died.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Farewell to John Conyers Jr. – and to His Era
31 Oct 2019
John Conyers’ long career is a window on the decline of Black politics in the two generations since the demise of the mass Black movement. “Conyers managed to preserve some shred of dignity years longer than the Black Caucus as a whole.” John Conyers passed away at age 90 this week, the sixth…
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Chicago Teachers Score a Historic Victory
06 Nov 2019
The city’s Black-led union, with potent support from the city’s Black and brown communities, faced down the new Black mayor. “The newly ratified contract is a start in creating a pathway out of poverty for many of the workers,” said the statement by SEIU Local 73.”
Vijay Prashad
Europe’s Greedy Lending to Africa Drives the Migration That Fuels the EU’s Xenophobic Politics
06 Nov 2019
The reasons for major flows of migration to Europe actually come from within Europe itself. “It is as if there is a war, and Europeans must arm themselves against invaders.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Now is the Time to Win National Improved Medicare for All
06 Nov 2019
If the movement continues to build support, we can win National Improved Medicare for All in the early 2020s. “The specter of high costs is a bogeyman promulgated by industry astroturf groups.”
Alice Speri
The FBI Has a Long History of Treating Political Dissent as Terrorism
06 Nov 2019
Sting operations and the use of informants and agents provocateurs have become a staple of FBI operations. “The bureau’s propensity for the policing of political dissent has remained largely unchallenged.”
Enzo Calandra
Mass Shootings and the Misguided and Pernicious Push for “Gun Control”
06 Nov 2019
The atrocities committed by white male shooters are part and parcel of US behavior both domestically and around the world. “’Gun control’ entails giving the state a monopoly on weapons, whose foot soldiers (the police) are armed, racist, and militarized.” “Under no pretext should arms and…