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Stacy Bannerman
Is Climate the Worst Casualty?
22 Aug 2018
If we don’t get serious about stopping the U.S. war machine, we could lose the biggest battle of our lives. “With few exceptions, the topic of America’s literal war on the world is still off the table.” How do you clear a room of climate activists? Start talking about war. It’s not just…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julietta Singh’s “Unthinking Mastery”
22 Aug 2018
Singh’s book argues that we have yet to understand critically and dynamically how dangerous all forms and practices of mastery are. “We here on what is called ‘the left’ are also ensnared in forms of violence and complicity.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Macarena Gómez-Barris’ “The Extractive Zone”
22 Aug 2018
The view that we have no future allows those on the planet with privilege to continue with their ideology of disposability.” “Now is the time to make a dramatic shift to the alternative futures that already exist.”
Ashon Crawley and Roberto Sirvent
Call for Submissions: Abolition Journal’s Special Issue on “Spirituality and Abolition”
22 Aug 2018
This Call for Submission asks the question: what can prison abolition, and other abolitions, teach us about spiritual practice, spiritual journey, spiritual commitment? “We seek essays, poetry, artwork and reflections.”
Quetzal Cáceres
An Open Letter to ‘Socialists’ Who Might be Fronting for the Democratic Party
22 Aug 2018
Any socialist who thought, as I did, that Ocasio-Cortez would be our socialist champion should watch the entire 27-minute PBS Firing Line interview to get a sense of just how bad this train wreck might be. “In the long term, will focusing on running ‘socialist’ candidates within the Democratic…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
When Things Fall Apart: The Trump Era and the Missing Left
22 Aug 2018
The moribund politics of the ruling class posing as The Resistance are creating the perfect conditions for another four years of Donald Trump. “A truly independent political party of working people can only arise when the Democratic Party is no longer able to masquerade as a party of the left.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Giuliani and Brennan: Truth or Dare
22 Aug 2018
The Russiagate investigation is proof that this country is run by liars, race baiters, warmongers, torturers and their enablers. We already knew that Guiliani and Trump were racists. “Brennan is among the worst of the rogues’ gallery.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Musician Bobi Wine Arrested and Tortured by USA’s Man in Africa
22 Aug 2018
Police in Uganda, the top U.S. military ally in Africa, have arrested and severely beaten parliamentarian and entertainer Bobi Wine, a hero to the nation’s poor. “In his music Bobi Wine advocates for the poor and for national unity.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
How Long is the Shelf-Life of Damnable Racist Capitalist Lies?
22 Aug 2018
Silicon Valley and the corporate media are far more effective in conjuring alternative realities than the chaotic Trump White House. “Trump tells lies that are easily countered; the New York Times and Google erase facts from history, systematically.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
R-E-S-P-E-C-T… (Ree-Ree-Ree-Respect!)
24 Aug 2018
“If Ever I Would Leave You–” Her promise, implied, to never Leave this jagged hole in my Soul was just shredded— Gooseflesh from her growls, swoops, screams, leaps is Left; but her voice belongs to the Universe for other planets to marvel at I don’t wanna “Say Her Name” today, not now… Don’t wanna…