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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Wages Cold War Against China Because America Can’t Compete
14 Jun 2021
The US confrontation with China is rooted in America being economically eclipsed by the Asian juggernaut, said Julie Varughese, Solidarity Network Coordinator of Black Alliance for
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Palestine is a Mirror into the Contemporary World Struggle Against Imperialism, and its Contradictions
27 May 2021
One cannot logically support the liberation of Palestine while simultaneously advocating regime change in Syria and Venezuela and obscene funding for the US military.
Marya Hannun
How Black Lives Matter Changed the American Conversation About Israel and Palestine
26 May 2021
The surge of attention to the Israeli occupation is unimaginable without last year’s “George Floyd” protests.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Racial Capitalism is the Kind We’ve Got, and Must Defeat
25 May 2021
The issues of race and class are intertwined, and “we must fight against them simultaneously rather than trying to decide if racial or class exploitation came first,” said Justin Leroy
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Democrats Give an “A” Grade to Joe Biden’s Brand of Corporate Rule. Should the Left?
12 May 2021
Biden’s policies thus far represent the bare minimum response of a social order mired in total decay.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The acrobats are back…(gimme a bleepin’ break!)
12 May 2021
The acrobats are back—riding bareback and backwards on Donkeys! They’re back juggling hocus-pocus focus groups; Back, spinning Wall Street straw into fools’ gold for the war-
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s “In the Wake”
12 May 2021
There was no way to make light of this daunting book and its effects on me, no matter how much I thought I knew it.
Joshua Moufawad-Paul
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror 1817-2020
12 May 2021
“Disease poetics” has been part of global capitalism since its emergence.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Justice was served from Warfare States’ gaslit woks
29 Apr 2021
Justice was served sweet and sour in pepper spray soup—tear- gas gumbo—tears mixed with milk and milk of magnesia in crimson curry sauce;
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
“Anti-Blackness, Bioethics, and Public Health: 200 Introductory Resources for Community Study”
29 Apr 2021
Writers, artists, community organizers and scholars have all contributed their analysis of the resource documents listed, below, and how they might be useful in assessing anti-Black structures arou