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Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from BAR Readers This Week
14 Oct 2018
“World War Dangers in Syria,” “Syria and the S-300s,” and “Democratic Fascism vs the Trump Kind” provoked strong feedback this week. Readers were interested in discussing matters related to imperial attacks on Syria and the role of Black voters in the Democratic Party.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shadaab Rahemtulla’s “Qur'an of the Oppressed”
17 Oct 2018
A central aim of liberation theology, in both the Christian and Muslim faiths, is to wrestle theology away from the elites and their privileged pontification “This is a book about siding with the oppressed and of speaking truth to power.”
Mark P. Fancher
Deadly, Cowardly U.S. Drone Wars in Africa
17 Oct 2018
The anticipated reduction of US troops in Africa will be matched by an increase in killer drones. “The U.S. is completing construction of a $100 million drone base in Agadez, Niger.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Theory 101: Historical Materialism and the Legacy of Columbus
17 Oct 2018
The celebration of Columbus is a product of over five centuries of colonialism and capitalist development. “The capitalist and imperialist systems that Columbus helped birth were met with fierce resistance from Indigenous people, African people, and poor people throughout the course of their…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Jamal Khashoggi and U.S. Hypocrisy
17 Oct 2018
The corporate media cry crocodile tears over the apparent murder of an elite, CIA-connected “dissident,” while papering over US complicity in Saudi war crimes in Yemen. “The Saudis may kill 50 Yemeni children on a school bus and get only a few mild rebukes, but killing a prominent man is another…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Priest APP
17 Oct 2018
Father’s fuckin’ anything moving— he’s on a mission from God entering orifices he finds, ferreting out sinners, driving the Devil from his hiding places! Father’s a heat-seeking missile penetrating soft targets in his holy War of Terror. He’s a bunker-busting bomb blowing up innocence, routing the…
Dr. Matthew Quest
How H. Rap Brown Forecast the Future of Black Power
17 Oct 2018
From 1967-1971, H Rap Brown (now Imam Jamil Al-Amin), native of Baton Rouge Louisiana, distinguished himself in how he foretold the future of the Black Power movement and clarified the questions we should be asking about where
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Facebook is Not Your Friend
18 Oct 2018
Facebook has become The Great Censor, ready to pull the pages of dissenters that seek to “stir up political debate” in ways that threaten the legitimacy of corporate rule. “Facebook is indispensable to maintaining the global corporate monopoly on truth -- as is Google.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from BAR Readers, Week of Oct 20, 2018
21 Oct 2018
This week readers wanted to talk about "MLK Disrupted for Justice” and " The Long Night Has Fallen on Supreme Court”. Readers engaged with the historical legacy of Dr. King and the Democratic Party’s complicity in the regressive direction of the Supreme Court.
a review by Ron Ridenour
“The Russians are Coming, Again (“first as tragedy, then as farce”)
24 Oct 2018
The US has been waging hot and cod war against Russia for almost a century -- wars that are always accompanied by massive lying to the American public. “’Bad’ Russia helps to reaffirm US national identity and visions of exceptionalism and righteousness at a time of escalating domestic crises.” “To…