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BAR Contributing Editor Danny Haiphong
The Democratic Party Has a Race Problem in the 2020 Election
18 Dec 2019
Harris’ appeals to the “Obama Coalition” and diversity were nothing but attempts to win over the Black vote while remaining loyal to the oligarchs. “Diversity does nothing to fundamentally change the white supremacist character of the Democratic Party.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Propaganda and the Defeat of Jeremy Corbyn
18 Dec 2019
If Corbyn can be defeated with a libel it can work just as well on Sanders. “Corporate in both countries behave in similar fashion and make a mockery of any claims of a free press.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Impending Ruling Class Mental Breakdown and Riot
19 Dec 2019
The outcome of the early primaries may erase Joe Biden’s “electability” luster and plunge the Lords of Capital into a panic in which all bets are off on what’s left of democratic liberties. “When the ruling class believes it is faced with existential threats, they throw bourgeois democracy out the…
April Anson
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
08 Jan 2020
Author Gerald Horne demonstrates that modernity arrived in the 17th century on the three horsemen of the apocalypse: slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism. “Horne makes clear that transnational solidarity is as old as colonialism and remains the greatest opponent of transnational…
From Enzo Calandra and Jelani Cobb
Two Views on Queen & Slim
08 Jan 2020
The film is either “a meditation on a system of justice that treats innocent people as outlaws,” or “a bourgeois representation of the struggle against police oppression.” The Problem With Queen & Slim by Enzo Calandra
Netfa Freeman
The US Surges Into A Police State While Media White Out Structural Racism
08 Jan 2020
Trump wants to “surge” against urban Black and brown Americans in the same way that the US surged against Iraq and Afghanistan. “No matter how many cases of murderous police brutality there are, each is treated like an isolated incident.” If withholding US military aid from a neo-Nazi friendly…
Leonard C. Goodman
Assange and Manning are Being Persecuted for Speaking Truth to Power
08 Jan 2020
Had WikiLeaks existed in 2002, a patriotic officer like Chelsea Manning might have leaked the official intelligence reports and stopped a war. “Assange's actions were no different than the actions of the New York Times and the Guardian.” The most important stories of the year for…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Will the Assassination of Gen. Soleimani Be Trump’s 1914 Moment?
08 Jan 2020
It appears that lies and/or false narratives are being used to rationalize this latest heinous act that may also result in another senseless war. “One must ask Speaker Pelosi and the 188 Democrats that joined the GOP about handing Trump a $738B military budget devoid of the bipartisan…
Kevin Alexander Gray
The Soul Will Find a Way
08 Jan 2020
Even in the era of the “African-American” tag, there’s no shaking black – because James Brown made it cool to be black. “Brown made bad good and then declared himself ‘Superbad.’”
Alaina Morgan
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
08 Jan 2020
The question of where to search for the histories of Black people in the diaspora, is of paramount importance. “Freedom and unfreedom are not binaries.”