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Anthony Monteiro
James Baldwin Still Matters and Eddie Glaude’s Book on Him Doesn’t
26 Aug 2020
Glaude has done a great injustice to Baldwin, turning the great Black writer and thinker into a mere liberal burned out by trauma and a sense of his fragility. “Baldwin imagined a new world and wide possibilities for struggle; Glaude imagines nothing.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“The Man Who Heals Women” Calls for an International Criminal Tribunal for Congo
26 Aug 2020
The West lavishes praise on Dr. Denis Mukwege for healing victims of weaponized sexual violence but protects the perpetrators, writes Ann Garrison. “The same traitors who have been acting in collusion with foreign forces for over 25 years.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats are Officially Republicans
26 Aug 2020
The Democrats claim to be the opposition party, but they seek out Republicans, hate the left of their own party, and don’t seem to care if they lose the election. “Biden’s slogan may as well be He’s Not Trump because that is all the Democrats had to say.” The Democratic Party has ended any debate…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Biden Offers Nothing But More War, Austerity and White Supremacy – Without Trump
27 Aug 2020
Biden is an unreconstructed racist and warmonger who has been in the forefront of austerity, and Harris is a party hack and mass Black incarcerator who became a prosecutor with police union endorsement. “Biden’s acceptance speech put forward not one word that hinted at programmatic change on racial…
Patrick D. Anderson
WikiLeaks, Still Revealing Truths About Power, Officially Launches Bibliography
02 Sep 2020
The interpretations of and commentaries in the bibliography vary widely, from unquestionable support for WikiLeaks to outright hatred of Assange. “The section on Julian Assange’s writings and interviews provides readers a chance to systematically study his thought firsthand.”
Philippe Gendrault
Some Reflections on Systemic Racism and Capitalism
02 Sep 2020
The system of exploitation that bore slavery remains, albeit without slavery, the very same system of exploitation. “American capitalism cannot possibly be anything but racist.”
Hana Kiros
A Tale of Two Teens: When White Killers Are Treated Better Than Black Victims
02 Sep 2020
It’s Cowboys and Indians updated: a wicked game where Black people are seen as predators but almost always end up prey. “The goodwill that’s been granted to this white boy who has taken two lives will never be given to Trayvon Martin or Jacob Blake.” I remember being thirteen and staying up to see…
Mark P. Fancher
Police Kill. We March. Why?
02 Sep 2020
We must instead think creatively about how to either take total community control of law enforcement as an institution or to bring about an independent, nation-building, self-governing reality. “We are able to develop new approaches to community security adapted to the current material conditions…
Jake Johnson
US Facilitates Arms for Killer Cops and Criminals in Haiti
02 Sep 2020
Weapons are flowing to pro-regime gangsters suspected of assassinating opponents of the US-backed regime. “G9 is evoking the horrors of the Tontons Macoutes, the government-backed paramilitaries that terrorized Haiti for decades under dictator François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vicky Osterweil’s “In Defense of Looting”
02 Sep 2020
Looting and rioting appear as immediately effective tactics in the struggle against whiteness, property and the police. “The non-violent Civil Rights Movement we learn about in elementary school never really existed.”