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Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Dec 2018
Readers engaged and challenged ideas about Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders this week. In particular the question of Bernie Sanders’ impact on the two party system provoked a lot of thought. Strong responses came for “Freedom Rider: The Democrats Win and Black People Lose” and “Bernie Sanders Puts…
Glenn Greenwald
CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill, Submits to Right-Wing Mob
05 Dec 2018
Our discourse is now drowning under demands that speech be banned if powerful constituencies think it “hurtful” -- especially the Israel lobby. “CNN honored the demands of those claiming to be victimized by exposure to Hill’s viewpoints.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Pierre Omidyar: A Dangerous Billionaire-Backer of the “Resistance”
05 Dec 2018
The eBay billionaire’s project is to stabilize an imperial system in crisis by luring “progressives” into corporate dominated “Big Tent” against Trump. “Omidyar actively creates infrastructure for leftists and progressives to be bamboozled into supporting the machinations of imperialism.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Mueller, Manafort and Assange
05 Dec 2018
The Mueller investigation much more resembles a propaganda campaign whose goal is neither truth nor justice, but vilification of Russia in the pursuit of endless war. “Russiagate serves many purposes.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison , #LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Session
#LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Sessions
05 Dec 2018
A dynamic new community project has been launched to halt the push-out of Black and brown people from Oakland by taking land and housing out of the speculative market. “We’re Black, indigenous, and other people of color trying to reclaim land sovereignty without capitalist exploitation.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!
05 Dec 2018
The post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation. “If human rights are to have any incredibility, any “universal” applicability, any value, they must be seized from the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Cranes and Tents
05 Dec 2018
Lording over the landscape like giant Insects sucking soul, blood, chocolate into multi-colored mushrooms Metastasizing citywide. Officers ordering vacant storefronts, lined up like soldiers, to make money, while brothers with cupped hands platoon on plastic crates at entrances to $4-a-cup coffee…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
All US Presidents, Living and Dead, are War Criminals
06 Dec 2018
Especially at state funerals, media and politicians pretend that US presidents are honorable men, instead of the mass murderers that all of them become in office. “The US has caused the deaths of 20 to 30 million people since World War Two, a level of carnage approaching that inflicted on Europe by…
Noura Erakat
Marc Lamont Hill and the Legacy of Punishing Black Internationalists
07 Dec 2018
Hill’s bold statement to the UN is part of the internationalist Black radical tradition, exemplified by Paul Robeson, the Black Panther Party, and today’s Black Lives Matter movement. “Black internationalists believed true liberation necessitated a radical reordering of U.S. politics and…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Macarena Gómez-Barris’s “Beyond the Pink Tide“and Harsha Walia’s “Undoing Border Imperialism”
12 Dec 2018
Our authors explore “how to live decolonial thought-action” and imagine a world without borders.