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Patrick Walker
Russiagate: Democrats’ Give Giant Middle Finger to Climate Justice
18 Apr 2018
“Does any RPEC issues activist seriously think we’ll remedy poverty and build the gargantuan new infrastructure required to address our climate crisis while maintaining a global military presence and footing the virtually limitless bills of a new Cold War?” Introduction: What’s Really at Stake When…
Dr. Gerald Horne
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
18 Apr 2018
This article is adapted from The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, just out from Monthly Review Press. “The construction of the relatively new racial identity that was ‘whiteness’—and its…
Peter James Hudson
Banking On a ‘Shithole’: US-Led Racial Capitalism in Haiti Began Long Before Trump
18 Apr 2018
“Haiti was ‘truly a virgin territory ready for the white man’s guiding mind.’” Donald Trump’s recent description of Haiti, El Salvador, and Africa as “shithole countries [sic]” offered an ugly example of how US foreign policy is often shaped by the dictates of racial capitalism -- by an economic…
Bryan K. Bullock
#FreeSpeechTVSoWhite
18 Apr 2018
“Progressive media is itself a bastion of white domination.”
Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan
“They Eat Money”: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption
18 Apr 2018
“Corruption has whittled away at virtually every institution in the country.” VREDE, South Africa — With loudspeakers blaring, city officials drove across the black township’s dirt roads in a pickup truck, summoning residents to the town hall. The main guest was a local figure who had soared up the…
Megan Humphrey
Gun Violence Debate Needs to Include Police Militarization and Drug Prohibition Violence
18 Apr 2018
“Any meaningful approach must address the war on drugs, its role in militarizing the police and the effect it has had on communities of color.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Ajit Singh
18 Apr 2018
“China’s rise, which is at the heart of the multipolar trend, is the primary threat to U.S. international supremacy.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Syria and Press Propaganda
18 Apr 2018
“Trump protects himself with war as Democrats and the rest of the ruling elite support his militarism.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Why Don’t We All Vote to Commit International Crimes?
18 Apr 2018
“Congress can’t authorize the unilateral use of military force abroad without violating the first principle of international law established by the UN Charter: the sovereignty of nations.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
White Lies and Black Disbelief in a Fading Empire
18 Apr 2018
“What would prevent Russia from attacking the United States because of all the people that the United States is killing in our communities.”