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Judi Rever and Benedict Moran
Top-Secret Testimonies Implicate Rwanda’s President in War Crimes
02 Dec 2020
Previously suppressed evidence shows that dictator Paul Kagame’s forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Hutus – the other side of the Rwandan genocide. “RPF soldiers killed truckloads of Hutu civilians and then burned the bodies.” For years, UN investigators secretly compiled evidence that…
Peoples Dispatch Staff
It’s Payback Time for Bolivian Socialists
02 Dec 2020
The newly elected MAS government has opened investigations against several members of the coup-regime that seized power last year. “Thirty-six people lost their lives during various violent repression operations by security forces after the coup.:
Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III
Biden’s Proposed Cabinet – A Kinder and Gentler Imperialism
02 Dec 2020
Biden, et al are planning to take us back to a romanticized Clinton and Obama eras. “Diversity in gender or ethnicity is not as relevant as diversity in ideology and agenda.” “Tonight, the whole world is watching America. And I believe at our best, America is a beacon for the globe. We will lead…
Andrew King
Woke Capitalism: The Poison Pill of Liberal Anti-Racism
02 Dec 2020
Both capitalist parties, and members of the black misleadership class, intentionally play the game of racial politics in order to obscure and ignore issues of class and poverty. “The Democrat's liberal anti-racism is that is completely detached from class and economic justice, and intentionally so…
Seth Sandronsky
Study Shows Blacks and Latinos Make Up Bulk of Temporary “Gig” Workers
02 Dec 2020
Eighty-three percent of blue-collar temp assignments are staffed by non-white workers in Illinois, a state where non-white workers are just 35 percent of the workforce. “The overrepresentation of black and Latinx workers in blue-collar temp jobs is striking.”
Jerusalem Demsas
How to Prevent Up to 40 Million People from Being Evicted
02 Dec 2020
Millions of Americans face eviction in a “completely predictable and entirely preventable” crisis as the CDC’s moratorium is set to expire on New Year’s Eve. “Tenants could owe nearly $70 billion in back rent by year’s end.” Seven months into her fight to stay housed, 48-year-old Kimberly is…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ana-Maurine Lara’s “Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty” and “Streetwalking”
02 Dec 2020
The author wants us to deepen our analysis of how power moves through the world to constrain Black life, and how queer Black people resist these constraints. “This book reiterates that there are communities all over the world who are mobilizing resources, stories, and…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
"Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens" Demonstrates the Depths of New Cold War Propaganda against China
02 Dec 2020
In the season finale, the liberal mask comes off and the program morphs into a screed for the U.S.’s New Cold War on China. “Racism toward Asian Americans has intensified in the U.S. in conjunction with a massive anti-China propaganda campaign led by the corporate media.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
People Power (Or 30 min. men and women every 4 yrs?)
02 Dec 2020
The People earned a dancing in the streets day, horn honking, slogan shouting day—collective sigh/exhale of relief day…Yes, The People deserve A day of celebration— just remember: It took 71 searing street heat days—Amazons of tears, Mississippis of blood, bowling alleys of eyeballs/…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Will This Be the Radicalization of Black Lives Matter?
02 Dec 2020
Ten Black Lives Matter chapters are demanding that those who have amassed millions of dollars in the movement’s name submit to both a financial and political accounting. “It is clear that the chapters raising questions about BLM from the frontlines are doing so not out of a desire to destroy but to…