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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Robyn Maynard’s "Policing Black Lives" and Alex Vitale’s "The End of Policing”
24 Oct 2018
So-called “community policing” may actually expand police power, and Canadian racial tolerance is a myth. “We need non-police based solutions to community problems that treat people and communities with respect and lift them up, not terrorize them.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Theory 101: The State as Personified by the Embrace of Michelle Obama and George W. Bush
24 Oct 2018
The collapse of imperialism has been restrained by the military state. “This analysis focuses on what Michelle Obama’s comradery with George W. Bush tells us about the US state.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Intel Report on Assassins: “Rwandans are cold ass mofos”
24 Oct 2018
Memos from an intel-for-hire outfit reveal that Washington’s top ally in Africa, Rwanda dictator Paul Kagame, runs one of the world’s most prolific assassination squads. “Rwandan dissidents in exile were assassinated in Brussels, Yaounde, and Nairobi, and there have been more since in Nairobi, Dar…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Migrant Caravan and U.S. Policy
24 Oct 2018
Washington blames “socialism” when Venezuelans flee their country’s US-created economic crisis, but defame Honduran refugees fleeing the misery created by the US in that country. “The United States must stop interfering in other nations and end its subversion of other countries’ democratic…
Dr. Matthew Quest
What H. Rap Brown Says to Us 50 Years Later, Part 2
24 Oct 2018
What H. Rap Brown Has To Say To Us Fifty Years Later – Part 2 In “How H. Rap Brown Foretold the Future of Black Power” Quest explained how Brown, from 1967-1971, was uncompromising both against the white racial state and counter-punched within emerging Black identity and community formation. Brown…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Great Un-Blackening: The Corporate Project to Erase Black People from Politics
25 Oct 2018
Corporate rule imposes a duopoly system in which one party is overtly white supremacist and the other party refuses to tackle racial oppression – but both pursue austerity and war. “Class has been effectively suppressed, except as racialized euphemisms and code words of American politics.”
Jessica Pupovac and Kari Lydersen
Women in Prison Punished More Harshly than Men Around the Country
25 Oct 2018
Women in prisons across the country are disciplined at significantly higher rates than male inmates for mostly minor, subjective infractions. “In prison as in the free world, women are expected to acquiesce to a level of social control that would be deemed unacceptable by men.” This investigation…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters From Our 'Readers
30 Oct 2018
This week feedback was strong for “Why I’ll Be At The Women’s March On The Pentagon This Weekend,” “You Can’t Separate Violence and the Police,” and “Theory 101: Historical Materialism and the Legacy of Columbus.”
Philadelphia Saturday Free School
The Black Worker in Our Time: An Indispensable Force for Peace and Justice
30 Oct 2018
In this moment of imperialist crisis white working people must accept unity with and leadership by black workers. “The black and colonial worker remains the founding stone of the wealth of finance capitalism.” A new epoch is being born. The old epoch founded on slavery and colonialism is dying. The…
Gerald A. Perreira
Trump and Saudi Arabia – One Rogue State to Another
30 Oct 2018
Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Euro-American Empire are at the root of so much bloodshed, it becomes impossible to even list the atrocities. “The global power elites are well aware that authentic Islam is counter-hegemonic.”