by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
More than two-thirds of the Congressional Black Caucus signed on as members of the Out of Iraq Caucus, but when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic corporate cohorts turned up the fire, all but four melted into the mass of hypocrisy that joined the U.S. war machine while pretending to resist it. The heroes are mostly heroines: Reps. Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Diane Watson, and the only man in the bunch, John Lewis. The collapse of the CBC is not a morality play, but the story of a power play. The lesson: the CBC will not stand up to Power, and is a politically spent force as presently constituted. The same must be said of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, only four of whose non-Black members stuck by their guns.
The trope of the United States being in a state of decline is a common one, but should not be accepted without scrutiny. The U.S. faces crises but remains dangerous, powerful, and single-minded inā¦
The "Antifa summit" and the NSPM-7 represent another institutional step toward consolidating fascism in the United States by criminalizing opposition to fascism itself.
ā...the science for revolutionary changeā¦is forged by human persuasion and building social consciousness based on the class analysis which sees the struggle against racism as central.ā
The interview with Hasan Piker exposed Sanders as a bad-faith interlocutor who uses identity as a cudgel while remaining silent on the poverty, pollution, and police violence that plague theā¦
The U.S. extradition request for Fergie Chambers is an attempt to use Spanish courts to extend a domestic campaign against political opposition.
