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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jon Jon Moore’s “The Calling: Poems”
16 Feb 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Jon Jon Moore. Moore is a writer, PhD student in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley, and host of the AbolitionISH podcast. His book is The…
Eugene Puryear
The Realities of Temp Work
16 Feb 2022
Poverty, wage theft, injuries, and even death are features of the temporary employment system. Black workers are overrepresented in temp work and are more likely to experience these abuses.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Pentagon pimps keep pimp slappin’ and kickin’ us to the curb…
16 Feb 2022
Pentagon pimps keep pimp slappin’
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Eileen Gu Controversy Exposes the Importance of Racial Loyalty to the American Empire
16 Feb 2022
Corporate media used the 2022 Beijing winter Olympics to create endless anti-China screeds. An athlete was even condemned for choosing to affirm her Chinese heritage. White supremacy drives foreign policy decisions and American thinking.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Articles of Pacification with the Maroons of Trelawny Town, Concluded March the First, 1738
16 Feb 2022
The history of the Maroons of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country is a story of the difficulties of Black sovereignty and autonomy in an imperial world.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Terrell Starr and Black Support of Imperialism
16 Feb 2022
Black Agenda Report's analysis of the US instigated crisis in Ukraine makes clear that imperialism is the source of turmoil in that country. The US role in heightening tensions must be exposed and the servants of US empire must be exposed as well.
Alan MacLeod
Documents Reveal US Gov’t Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative in Ukraine and Abroad
22 Feb 2022
The National Endowment for Democracy can claim it is in the business of democracy promotion. In reality, it does anything but that, unless “democracy” is entirely synonymous with elite U.S. interests. Ukraine, Hong Kong, Cuba and other nations have all been targeted by this propaganda arm of the…
John Pilger
War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
22 Feb 2022
Events in Ukraine have been stoked by US/UK war propaganda. Journalistic standards have been replaced with evidence free narratives meant to get public support for acts of aggression. This article originally appeared in JohnPilger.com.
Djibo Sobukwe
NATO and Africa: A Relationship of Colonial Violence and Structural White Supremacy
23 Feb 2022
NATO is the means of continuing colonial aggressions against African countries.
Yahne Ndgo
Hide Nothing From The Masses: An Insider Perspective in the Black Lives Matter Global Network Sham
23 Feb 2022
Questions about finances at the Black Lives Matter Global Foundation made headlines, but political impropriety is at the heart of the matter. Revolutionary politics would proscribe self-dealing and co-optation.