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- Glen Ford, BAR Executive EditorThe current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration.
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnistThe COVID-19 pandemic has resuscitated the old “yellow peril” canard to its fullest extent, revealing deep xenophobia and racist intent against China.
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorAOC and Bernie Sanders made public condemnations of the corporate bailout but did little in the way of resistance.
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorThe coronavirus-stricken crew of the USS Roosevelt would be more useful making N-95 masks, building housing for people living on the streets, and tilling community gardens to prepare for suppl
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceI had a nightmare that down in Mississippi, its governor having his lips dripping with words of Social Darwinism, Herd immunity and Mengele Medicine,