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- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnistThere needs to be soul searching and truth telling about invasions, interventions, coups and sanctions that are far more destructive than the Trump lovers could ever be.
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- BAP Coordinating CommitteeThe Democrat-aligned oligarchy will try to use last week’s racist violence as an excuse to impose a corporate brand of fascism.