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Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
11 Dec 2019
Readers discussed liberal warhawks, fascism and Trump, and America’s founding myths this week. We share your letters for “Freedom Rider: Liberals Love the Military,” “Fascism the Other F Word,” and “
Mary Helen Washington
Racial Terror & Totalitarianism
11 Dec 2019
Rasberry asks how the history of totalitarianism looks from the vantage point of the colonized and the racially subjugated. “Colonial violence and modern racial terrorist regimes must be read as forms of totalitarianism.” Race and the Totalitarian Century Geopolitics in the Black Literary…
Michael E. Tigar
Rap Brown Law Today
11 Dec 2019
The law holds that just one person, crossing a state line with the intent to do or participate in mischief, can be prosecuted. “Its formal title was ‘The Civil Obedience Act of 1968.’” A right-wing publication quotes sources from the Department that calls itself Justice. The “Rap Brown Law”…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Black Friday Blues
11 Dec 2019
Here come Black Friday, but I wanna a Green New Deal Here come Black Friday, but I wanna a Green New Deal With a whole lotta street heat just to keep it real… Here come Cyber Monday, but I want some Single-Payer Here come Cyber Monday, but I want some Single-Payer— You can pay for it— You’re the “…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Capitalist Crisis Has Made the U.S. a Pariah State
11 Dec 2019
U.S. imperialism has nothing left to offer humanity but ecological destruction, endless war, and a decline in living standards domestically and globally. “There would be no endless wars for profit without the enslavement of Africans.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Abolish the Police
11 Dec 2019
Trump’s attorney general threatened to withdraw police “protection” from Black communities – but, of course, no such thing exists. “The cops they do not deserve respect or support.”
Prince Kapone
The Birth of a Nation: Race and Power in Amerika
11 Dec 2019
White supremacy is just as much a social reality as it is an ideology. “What is essential is that the relationship of power between whites and non-whites be changed.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Issue-Less Impeachment: The Corporate Democrats Stand for Nothing, So They Impeach for Nothing
12 Dec 2019
The corporate Democrats are effectively exonerating themselves and their Republican brethren of the full spectrum of lawlessness that is everyday politics in the belly of the racist, imperial beast. “The Democrats have used the vile, childishly compulsive and overtly racist Trump as a straw man…
WPAN
Africa Caribbean Pacific Group Seeks Action on Papua Rights Abuses
18 Dec 2019
The brutally oppressed people of West Papua continue to mount protests despite severe repression by Indonesian occupiers. “Indonesia has previously warned Pacific Island countries not to interfere in issues relating to West Papua.” The 79 member states of the Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) group…
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Sudan Withdraws 10,000 Troops from Yemen
18 Dec 2019
The ongoing popular struggle in Sudan may have heightened the chances for peace in Yemen. “According to Houthi sources, more than 4,000 Sudanese soldiers have been killed in Yemen so far.” The remaining 5,000 Sudanese soldiers in Yemen are also likely to be withdrawn soon. The return of the…