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Erica Caines
Human Rights Hypocrisy: Critical Analysis of Hong Kong Protests
18 Dec 2019
Why do corporate media love Hong Kong dissidents while neglecting protests in Haiti, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Honduras and Bolivia? “Hong Kong protestors engage in activities that in the U.S. would get them killed by the police or long prison sentences.”
Wayne Dooling
What an Audit of the British Empire's Deadly Toll in Southern Africa Would Reveal
18 Dec 2019
The colonial powers have never been called to account for the human cost of their centuries of global rampage. “It’s high time to examine the empire’s deadly toll.” In its 2019 election manifesto, the Labour Party pledged to conduct an “audit of the impact of Britain’s colonial legacy,” with…
Casey Cep
The Legacy of a Radical Black Newspaperman
18 Dec 2019
William Monroe Trotter insisted that protest and civil disobedience were the only effective remedies for racial discrimination. “Legions of working-class readers admired Trotter’s ‘unceasing warfare against injustice.’”
Wilmer J. Leon III
Democrats as “Liberal”? No, Neo-Liberal Capitulation
18 Dec 2019
Democratic leadership is pro-democracy in the US and opposed to it every place else in the world. “Elitist Democrats are working with the administration and neo-cons to cut taxes for the wealthy and perpetuate the military industrial complex.” “Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter Gelderloos’s “Worshiping Power”
18 Dec 2019
The anarchist author maintains that the only thing the state “is superior at is conquest.” “States are constantly upgrading in order to amass more power and deal with the unending string of disasters they cause.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eric Pritchard’s “Fashioning Lives”
18 Dec 2019
Through writing, many Black queer people are creating the world we all deserve to live in. “I hope that activists and community organizers will take away the importance of literacy as an integral part of their work.”
Patrick Blanchfield
The Thick Blue Line: How the United States Became the World’s Police Force
18 Dec 2019
Many of the tools and tactics adopted by American police over the past half century were originally deployed to fight communism abroad. “The era of intensified American policing that began in the 1960s cannot be understood outside the context of the Cold War national-security state.” Stuart…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
The old playbook
18 Dec 2019
“The hatred of Tsarism was directed particularly against the Jews. On the one hand, the Jews provided a particularly high percentage (compared to the total of the Jewish population) of leaders of the revolutionary movement. In passing, it should be said to their credit that to-day the Jews provide…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
Barring Politics from the Courtroom: The State Versus the Venezuela Embassy Protectors
18 Dec 2019
A black, Obama-appointed judge intends to hide key facts from the jury and referred to the embassy protectors as a "gang." “The embassy protectors put their bodies on the line and gave their time in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pachamama and the Pope
18 Dec 2019
The violent coup in Bolivia may have been presaged by events at the Vatican, where right-wing Catholics rebelled against the Pope’s display of respect for the indigenous earth goddess. “A fundamentalist Austrian Catholic entered the Church of Santa Maria Traspontina in the dark of night and stole…