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Ellen Brown
This Radical Plan to Fund the ‘Green New Deal’ Just Might Work
19 Dec 2018
The US could finance a “Green” New Deal in the same way that it paid for the first New Deal, during the Depression – with public “banking” institutions. “FDR used the publicly owned Reconstruction Finance Corporation as a public infrastructure bank.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julia Jordan-Zachery’s“Shadow Bodies“and Sabine Broeck’s “Gender and the Abjection of Blackness”
19 Dec 2018
Our authors examine how white feminism became “junior partner to enslavist capitalist patriarchy,” and how do we “resist silences that limit the span of democracy?” “How does our act of silencing “non-prototypical” Black women allow for the perpetuation of their marginalization by others and by us…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The People v. The Information Monopolies: Case Continued
19 Dec 2018
Democrats failed to get enough votes to repeal the FCC’s undoing of net neutrality, but there’s still time to change some member’s votes. “Verizon literally slowed access to the net when people were fleeing forest fires and checking their cell phones for updates on routes they should take.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Michelle Obama Slanders Black Men in Her Book, Adds to the Obama Family’s Long Anti-Black Tradition
19 Dec 2018
The Obamas are cashing in on their lifelong project to further the destruction of Black people, while blaming the victim. “When it comes to imperialism, it pays to be anti-Black.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: UK and US PSYOP Collusion
19 Dec 2018
Russiagate hysteria is an international conspiracy, with British spooks spreading lies on three continents. Now Black Americans are slandered as “dupes” of Moscow. “There was foreign meddling in the 2016 election but it came from British spooks like Christopher Steele and undercover operatives, not…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
The Bolton Speech on Africa: A Case of the Wolf and the Foxes
19 Dec 2018
The Trump administration claims China and Russia are exploiting Africa, but US policy offers nothing but more guns, more bases and more subversion. “Economic relations with China provides African states a modicum of spaceto exercise more effective national sovereignty than had ever been afforded…
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
19 Dec 2018
Readers engaged us on questions of war, peace, and the ways forward for organized resistance. Provocative comments came for “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – Like A Fighting Green Party” and “Anti-Russian Hysteria Makes Americans Stupid”.
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
For Fancy Miss Nancy
19 Dec 2018
Guess who I saw today, black and white photo, Marching, Montgomery from Selma, ‘65? Guess who I saw at my high school swingin’ the Trio; urging us to stay in school? Guess who I, was privileged to sequence a later CD for, late one night? …and you don’t know, you don’t know how Glad I am that she…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China
20 Dec 2018
The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM’s massive military infiltration of the region. “The ‘West’s’ political economies are spent forces, incapable of either keeping up with China’s phenomenal domestic growth or of…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Reader
26 Dec 2018
We have another round of strong feedback engaging with and challenging our pieces this week.