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- Ann Garrison , BAR contributorRwanda's democratic opposition leader says “there is no space for people to speak freely and peacefully and engage in real democratic process in Rwanda.”
- Ben NortonAlmost half a year after the siege of the Venezuelan embassy by a right-wing mob, a journalist who helped defend the embassy has been thrown in jail.
- BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat TurnerSan Francisco singer sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, ringlets trickling down ‘round Angelic paper bag brown face, like sweat gathering on her glass of white wine.
- Danny Haiphong , BAR contributorBAR will never stop linking the conditions of apartheid America with the imperialist wars waged against the people of Libya, Syria, or anywhere else.