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Doug Henwood
Is It Time to Critically Interrogate Nonviolence and Nonviolent Direct Action?
15 Mar 2018
Activism. Democracy. Change through nonviolent direct action. These, Doug Henwood points out, have been fetishes for much of the US left for quite some time, especially that portion of the US left that takes its marching orders from corporate funders. Gene Sharp, the founder of the Albert Einstein…
Ellen Brown
The War on the Post Office
21 Mar 2018
“Postal banking can be profitable through economies of scale and the elimination of profit-taking middlemen, as postal banks globally have demonstrated.”
Sven Beckert
Today’s Capitalism Was Born in Slavery
21 Mar 2018
“We must develop a new appreciation for the centrality of slavery, in the United States and elsewhere, in the emergence of modern capitalism.”
Tatyana Hopkins
Black Panther Party Principles Resurrected in Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico
21 Mar 2018
“The Young Lords saw the Black Panthers trying to get justice for Black people, and they knew they needed to do the same thing.” The last thing you would expect to find in the central mountain range of Puerto Rico is the influence of the 1960s Black Panther Party. But there it was. The tenets of…
Jaime A Alves
Marielle Franco’s Assassination: One of Tens of Thousands of Black Murders in Brazil
21 Mar 2018
“Brazil`s terrocratic regime continues producing black dead bodies in astonishing scales without disturbing the normalcy of everyday political life in this country.”
Kweli Nzito
A Tale of Three Apartheids and the Land Conundrums
21 Mar 2018
“White settlers were convinced that the lands they appropriated in the ‘dark continent’ and other lands were theirs by right.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Vladimir Putin and War Propaganda
21 Mar 2018
“Lies about the Russian government are war propaganda and they are meant to get public support for military action against Russia and its allies.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Luciana Bohne
21 Mar 2018
“My advice to the non-communist western left is to exorcise the ghost of anti-communism and to look into the history of communism, as it really existed.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Novichok Nerve Agent Histrionics
21 Mar 2018
“It’s absolutely astonishing that anyone believes this.” Most national and international news reported in the US is now an extended Red Scare narrative punctuated by stories about Trump’s unparalleled boorishness and recklessness, which can of course be blamed on Russia since Trump never would have…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Last Days of Pompeo…or of ‘Identity’ Politics?
21 Mar 2018
His lips gurgled watery words, his nostrils were an aching incinerator… Still, she taunted and tormented him about his acting; after she’d ordered him Water-boarded for the 83rd time… Screams were symphonies when she ran her Black Site—and NO, Negroz, it wasn’t a place you could go get your groove…