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Dr. Kweli Nzito
Gangster “Democracies”
11 Apr 2018
“It is African involuntary aid that continues to keep the economies of many former European colonies afloat.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Demand the United States Withdraw Its Forces From Syria and Respect International Law
11 Apr 2018
“The Black Alliance for Peace says the only institution with the right and power to protect the peace and resolve international conflict is the United Nations.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Crime That Turned Central Africa Into a Vast Killing Ground
11 Apr 2018
“Kagame in fact triggered the massacres and has ever since blackmailed the rest of the world over its failure to stop them—even though he himself threatened to fire on UN troops if they intervened.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Democratic “Deep State” Takeover and the Moribund State of American Politics
11 Apr 2018
“Democrats make gun violence in America the primary midterm election issue because the passage of single payer healthcare, a scale back of the military budget, or a reduction in poverty are not issues that the Wall Street-owned, CIA Democrats want to touch.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Yaser Murtaja and Marie Colvin
11 Apr 2018
“The corporate media share in the culpability.” Yaser Murtaja was a Palestinian journalist acting in his professional capacity when he was murdered by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). He was covering the second Great Return March in Gaza and was clearly identified as press when an Israeli sniper…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Boss Tweet: Latest Poster Boy for the Warfare State’s Pyramid Scheme
11 Apr 2018
Ocher shadow bearing sculls and crossbones, ruby river draining from pyramid’s base an endless death rattle of bombs and drones Threatening to drown the whole human race with its weaponized Ponzi Scheme plus pomp— Nightmare rebranded, ‘American Dream’ Bad Hombre bubbling from the draining swamp:…
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.”