Nature And The Environment

Michelle Chen
Prisons Are Using the Pandemic to Impose Lockdowns
20 May 2020
More than 300,000 people in prisons or jails are under “full or partial lockdown” in response to the pandemic.
K.J. Noh and Claudia Chaufan
Why is Sam Husseini Channeling Neocon Conspiracy Theories on Covid-19?
20 May 2020
The authors charge a progressive journalist with acting as a “shill” for neocon propaganda and disinformation on China. (Husseini’s article is also published, below.)
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 18, 2020
19 May 2020
Pandemic Has Shaken Global Capitalism to Its Core
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Everybody is Getting a Taste of Lockdown
18 May 2020
The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, says all of Pennsylania’s incarcerated population has been on 23 hour, 15 minute daily lockdown since the beginnin
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Is Genetic Testing a Tool for Reparations?
18 May 2020
The science of genetics “can be useful for showing continuity, that the people who were harmed are, indeed, ancestors of those who are living today,” said Dr.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Rural Blacks and Browns at High Risk
18 May 2020
“In the last decade more than 125 rural hospitals have closed,” said Dr Carrie Henning-Smith, of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and co-author of a st
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Leftists Jump the Corporate Democratic Ship, Leaving Sanders Behind
14 May 2020
History may record that the corporate duopoly dike was finally broken in the Time of Plague, with the defection of Bernie’s former sheep from the Democratic Party.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Things Don’t Get No Better
13 May 2020
The current season of sickness – biological and political – is, indeed, strange, with no hint of a better day any time soon.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Archaic capitalism’s COVID cops?
13 May 2020
What if COVID-19 came and drove down crime by 40%? What if capitalism’s cops be- came useless
Telesur
US Blocks Vote on UN’s Bid for Global Ceasefire Amid COVID-19
13 May 2020
The US veto trashes the UN’s efforts to convince armed factions in more than a dozen countries to call for temporary truces as the world battles the pandemic.