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Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Fabulist Arrogance of US Power
22 Mar 2023
The U.S. reserves for itself the right to commit crimes all over the world with impunity. It even passed a law giving itself the right to invade the Netherlands to rescue any US citizen or ally ever brought to face charges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Currency Crisis in the West, 1965
22 Mar 2023
A 1965 article from Kwame Nkrumah’s journal The Spark highlights the role of monetary policy – and the US dollar – as an instrument of imperialism and neocolonial rule. If it were around today, The Spark would probably carry a warning in the US that it was “state-affiliated media.” Its editors…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
20 Years After Iraq, Corporate Media Defends US War Crimes But Obsesses Over Trump Trivialities
22 Mar 2023
Liberals and the media give great attention to Donald Trump's legal problems that are related to his personal life, but they cover up for the war crimes he and other presidents committed.
Trevor Aaronson
The Honey Trap: The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes
29 Mar 2023
In 2020 law enforcement continued their practice spying on activist groups and attempting to entrap them. Police infiltration of movement spaces never ended.
Jacqueline Luqman
The ICC Is A US-Controlled Kangaroo Court
29 Mar 2023
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has no legitimacy. It has always acted on behalf of the U.S. and its allies.
Socialist Movement of Workers of the Dominican Republic
We Demand Jail for Dominican Military Members Responsible for Tilory Massacre
29 Mar 2023
The Dominican Republic does not restrict its assaults on Haitians and its Haitian descended citizens. Its military feels free to enter Haiti itself and to commit killings there.
Efia Nwangaza
The Balanta Mandate and the UN's Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD)
29 Mar 2023
The UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent must uphold the 2001 Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA). A recently written mandate affirms the importance of DDPA and the need to protect and strengthen it.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
“Muerte o Tierra”: Rosalino Flores’s Death and Comuneros Win Land Struggle, Remain Vigilant
29 Mar 2023
Rosalino Flores is just one of the Peruvians who died in the struggle against the coup government. Clau O'Brien Moscoso continues her dispatches from Peru. A Spanish translation follows.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Hugo ka Canham’s Book, “Riotous Deathscapes”
29 Mar 2023
This week’s featured author is Hugo ka Canham. Canham is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of South Africa and coeditor of Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience. His book is Riotous Deathscapes.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Saturday Mornings
29 Mar 2023
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