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Nigeria SARS Protests: Amnesty Warns of “Escalating Attacks”
21 Oct 2020
Protests mount against Africa’s most populous nation’s most feared police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). “Protesters use the hashtags #EndSars, #EndBadGovernance, #BetterNigeria and #FixNigeriaNow. The rights group Amnesty International has raised concern about "…
Yoav Elinevsky
Trump’s Looting of CITGO Punishes Low-Income People in Venezuela and US
21 Oct 2020
The sanctions on Venezuela are also hurting some two million low-income Americans who used to receive free heating oil from CITGO. “The goal of the US is to inflict severe pain on the Venezuelan people to force them to turn against their elected government.”
Margaret Flowers
Liberals and Fascists Both Love Capitalism
21 Oct 2020
It is important to look at the bigger picture lest we focus on the wrong issue and play into the hands of the ruling class. “The US is on the road to fascism and it is being paved by Democrats and Republicans.”
David Pleasant
Savannah, the Afro-Fetish-City
21 Oct 2020
The African Exposition at the Savannah Riverside Plant “is one of the most intense examples of fetishization, colonialism, exoticism, and dehumanization” the author has ever scene. “Africans on display and for sale are staples in the historic diet of Savannah, and the entire region.”
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Dr. Angel Love Miles
21 Oct 2020
Health and disability are interrelated and distinctive social categories that have significant implications for the black community. “Unhealthy environments restrict our movements, confine us.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Yarden Katz’s Book “Artificial Whiteness”
21 Oct 2020
The models of the human “self” offered within AI commit to white male superiority and individualism. “I hope activists will see the value in refusing AI and the institutional networks that sustain it.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
21 Oct 2020
This week Third World unity, police brutality in Democrat-run cities and the failures of the presidential debates were on your minds.
Dylan Rodríguez
Reformism Isn’t Liberation, It’s Counterinsurgency
21 Oct 2020
You can’t abolish systemic anti-Blackness and racial-colonial violence by protecting the system itself. “To reform a system is to adjust isolated aspects of its operation in order to protect that system from total collapse, whether by internal or external forces.”
Gabriel Rockhill
Liberalism & Fascism: The Good Cop & Bad Cop of Capitalism
21 Oct 2020
Fascist modes of governance are a very real and present part of the so-called liberal world order. “The model for Nazi Germany’s white-supremacist colonial expansion was the U.S.” “There is currently one state [the United States] that has made at least the weak beginnings of a better order.”…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Lawless low Barr’s depths of depravity
21 Oct 2020
Brutal Boss Tweet extorts the border— Lawless low Barr screams, “Law and order!” $campaign manager masquerading as proper copper— Third Reich thug; mirror-avoiding criminal ‘crime-stopper…’ Church front photo-op calling corrupt top cop; Ol’ lawless low Barr— reality Tsar; William The…