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- The Editors"What would Glen Ford say?" That question is one which we often ask ourselves two years after his passing.
- Glen Ford , BAR executive editorFor the past 30 years, no matter which party has been in power, the US economy has produced more and more “bad” jobs – because the Race to the Bottom is ruling class policy.
- Glen Ford , BAR executive editorIt is true now just as when Glen Ford wrote these words in 2019. In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples.…
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior ColumnistThe U.S. has used its influence to steal another country’s oil revenues. Venezuela is in the crosshairs because it dares to be socialist in the hemisphere the U.S. claims as it’s “backyard.”
- Editors, The Black Agenda ReviewThe late Glen Ford would probably refer to events in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and elsewhere as the “blowback” from France’s colonial past.