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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adom Getachew’s “Worldmaking after Empire”
06 Mar 2019
Black and brown anticolonialists used the United Nations to push for new and egalitarian relationships among nations and peoples. “Anticolonial nationalists took as their central aim the transformation of the international order.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Arturo Escobar’s “Designs for the Pluriverse”
06 Mar 2019
Multiple world crises require that humans construct new designs according to very different principles and categories than those of capitalist modernity. “We design the world and the world designs us back.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
06 Mar 2019
Social imperialists and Green Party strategy were major topics of discussion this week. Strong responses came for “The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists” and “Facing 2020 and Bernie 2.0: What the Greens Must Do.”
Alan MacLeod
Venezuela-Baiting: How Media Keep Anti-Imperialist Dissent in Check
06 Mar 2019
The corporate media are attacking Bernie Sanders like wild hyenas for failing to sufficiently denounce Venezuela’s government. “Nothing but complete capitulation to this extractive right-wing tactic will be accepted.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
“Things that Make White People Uncomfortable”: A Book Review
06 Mar 2019
Michael Bennett tells it like he sees it in his new book, and shows with fine literary flair that he’s never acclimated to the NFL plantation. “...the game depends on the players in both the NCAA and the NFL...”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Fear the “Bern?” Bernie Sanders is Too Left for the Democratic Party
06 Mar 2019
The corporate Democrats truly fear Sanders because he represents a dangerous political path that may lead large portions of the population to demand an improvement in their condition. “The Democratic Party would much rather Trump secure another term than Sanders face off against the orange…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Russiagate and Democratic Defeat
06 Mar 2019
It should now be clear to all honest and sane people that the only collusion was between the corporate media and the Democratic Party to spin a phony tale. “They pointed fingers at Bernie Sanders, the Green Party, Vladimir Putin and even leftist celebrities.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on de Dems dissin’ Kids
06 Mar 2019
Did you see de Kids questin Madum Di-Fi— catchin’ her befo’ she cud spin de big lie…? Lawd, de ‘tude an’ disdain she cudn’t cunseel show’d her true colors on de Green New Deal… She tolt ‘em dat she know’d whass bes fo’ dem— jus’ lak Miss Nancy, Cap’n Steny, an’ Unca Jim! De Dems dinosores an’ will…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Black Stake in the Green New Deal
07 Mar 2019
Black people should see the Green New Deal as an arena of struggle for self-determination, communal repair, and justice-creation. “In its broad outlines, the Green New Deal is a transformative program that calls for democratic reconstruction of U.S. society.”
Nicolas J S Davies
The Conflict of Our Time: US Imperialism vs the Rule of Law
13 Mar 2019
The U.S. gives lip service to international law while relentlessly pursuing global domination. “The U.S. recognizes no permanent geographic limits to its imperial sovereignty.” The world faces many overlapping crises: regional political crises from Kashmir to Venezuela; brutal wars that rage on in…