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Rachel Wolkenstein
New Legal Action is a Path to Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Freedom, But a Re-ignited International Mobilization is Critical for Victory
07 Mar 2018
“It will take international mobilization of the masses, centrally labor and its allies, minorities, immigrants and youth to turn the tide and win Mumia’s freedom.”
Chris Hedges
Legalizing Tyranny
07 Mar 2018
“The carcel state is a subculture unto itself, with an $81 billion budget and tremendous political clout.”
Lucas Koerner
Will the Venezuelan Masses Still Stand with Maduro at Election Time?
07 Mar 2018
“The people know that it’s easier to deepen a revolution while being in government than to turn it over to a right-wing that has no respect for life.”
Mary F. Corey
The Funke Wisdom of Chocolate Cities
07 Mar 2018
“The West becomes West South; the North is Up South; the Middle West is Mid South.”
Oliver Milman
Environmental racism case: EPA rejects Alabama town's claim over toxic landfill
07 Mar 2018
“Mere compliance with environmental permits should not negate civil rights concerns.” The US Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed a civil rights case brought by residents of a small, overwhelmingly African American town in Alabama who have spent much of the past decade battling a toxic…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Daniel Patrick Welch
07 Mar 2018
“Americans—even ‘woke’ ones—don’t know jack about their own history: the violence, the terror on behalf of white supremacy is simply a bottomless pit.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Raining on Trump’s Parade: An Interview with Margaret Flowers
07 Mar 2018
“The people who are behind this are all groups who are strongly opposed to the corporate duopoly war party, and who have been working to revive the peace movement in the United States.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Panther Movie: A Black Face in a High Place
07 Mar 2018
“Questioners are ‘hoteps’ who are too woke to have fun.” The desire to see a black face in a high place is a legacy of slavery and the century of Jim Crow segregation that followed. The psychological impact of America’s apartheid is enduring, and unlikely to end without true revolutionary change.
Patrick D. Anderson
A Black Radical Defense of the Second Amendment
07 Mar 2018
“Black communities have differentiated individual firearm ownership from structured self-defense organizations.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Healthcare Bait-and-Switch: From the Clintons to Obama and Back Again
08 Mar 2018
“Cory Booker and others are joining the pro-single payer bandwagon to weaken it from the inside.”