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All-African People's Revolutionary Party
Nuke You Too! No More Imperialist and Superpower Exceptionalism
20 Sep 2017
“United States leaders threaten North Korea with a first strike.” "A new and vigorous approach to the problem of peace and war is needed. The time has come when the destiny of (mankind) should cease to hang dangerously on the aims and ambitions of Great Powers." Kwame Nkrumah
The Public Archive
Hunger Strikers at California’s Adelanto Detention Center
20 Sep 2017
“The strikers presented a list of demands they wanted delivered to ICE.”
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Why Claudia Jones Will Always Be More Relevant than Ta-Nehisi Coates
20 Sep 2017
“Coates assumes that all the leftists are white, and all race analysis is liberal.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Pentagon’s Human Rights Auxiliary Targets Burundi
20 Sep 2017
“The US and allies are trying to beat the October deadline when Burundi will have made its way out from under the court's imperial jurisdiction.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Why Anti-Trumpism Doesn’t Include Anti-War
20 Sep 2017
“An ideological opening exists for reframing military spending and the war agenda for what it is: An agenda for the protection of the interests of the 1 percent.” Libertarian U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) declared from the Senate floor last week in anticipation of the vote on the National Defense…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Intercept's Attack on the Oppressed is Why I Write
20 Sep 2017
“To conflate the just struggle of oppressed people with white nationalism is merely a variant of white supremacist ideology.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump and America are White Supremacist
20 Sep 2017
“The system allows every white person to be a supremacist as they carry out their daily lives.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Trump’s “Sovereignty” is Lawlessness (So was Obama’s)
21 Sep 2017
“Regime change is the rule in U.S. foreign policy practice.” Donald Trump’s tragicomic performance at this week’s opening of the United Nations General Assembly caused the U.S. foreign policy establishment to cringe in embarrassment, as the ultra-provincial and unabashedly white supremacist real…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Irma (and the 8 questions)
21 Sep 2017
My Sister-in-law, the Artist, propped her last painting up, as high as she could reach… My Mother-in-law, the Lion, placed, important papers in plastic containers; removed lox from the refrigerator, schmeared pumpernickel faces; bagged them for she and her Nosh-keteers.
Carlos Aznárez
In Venezuela, the Military Stands with the People
27 Sep 2017
“Chávez created this philosophy, which is anti-imperialist and also humanist.” Attendees to the Second Anti-imperialist Forum in Defense of the Motherland, held in Caracas, were able to see an unusual sight for Latin America. As they entered the Teresa Carreño Theater they were received by hundreds…