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Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
War, Peace and Presidential Candidates
03 Apr 2019
Would any of the Democratic candidates promote diplomacy and a commitment to international law? “Senator Sanders has the best voting record of any candidate on war and peace issues, especially on military spending.”
Ahmad al Khaled
Russia Warns About False Flag Chemical Attack in Syria
03 Apr 2019
US-backed jihadists have been getting away with pinning their attacks on the Syrian government since 2013. “White Helmets members will be present in the area to ‘rescue’ the victims.”
Lewis Raven Wallace
In This Small Georgia City, an Unpaid Court Fine Can Get Your Utilities Cut Off
03 Apr 2019
Located 40 miles south of Atlanta, LaGrange uses local utilities as a form of social control. “The story of LaGrange reeks of the systemic racism in both Flint and Ferguson.” At an MLK Day celebration in LaGrange, Georgia, a few years ago, a man approached Ernest Ward, then-president of the Troup…
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Zimbabwean Communists Say Handing Over Mineral Resources to Foreign Firms is Treason
03 Apr 2019
Zimbabwe’s new “open for business” posture apparently means, “Come and take all of our resources.” “Ownership of mineral resources is the birthright of Zimbabweans.” The ZANU(PF)-led government of Zimbabwe recently announced that the indigenization rule, which prohibits foreign mining companies…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Paul Steinbeck’s “Message to Our Folks”
03 Apr 2019
The members of the Art Ensemble represented “five different articulations of Africanity.” “The musicians organized themselves as a cooperative.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ruma Chopra’s “Almost Home”
03 Apr 2019
This is a story about the ways in which the Maroons positioned themselves within a powerful and expanding empire. “Claiming descent from the Maroons is a sign of great pride.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 Apr 2019
This week readers wanted to discuss Tulsi Gabbard’s views on war and Barack Obama’s black critics. Thoughtful responses came for “Get Tulsi Gabbard On the Debate Stage” and “A True Defense of Smiley and West”.
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Commemorating the Rwandan Genocide: A Senate Resolution in Praise of Blood
03 Apr 2019
Citing the Rwandan bloodbath, the US Senate is considering yet another measure justifying so-called “humanitarian” military intervention. “The Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front massacred hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
American Exceptionalism is at the root of the Fake News Epidemic Attempting to Overthrow Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
03 Apr 2019
American exceptionalism is a white exceptionalism that portrays the U.S. as a society rooted in democracy rather than slavery, liberty rather than brutality and genocide. “Nothing that the U.S. corporate media or the political establishment has said about Venezuela is true.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Remembering April 4th
03 Apr 2019
Dr King understood that drawing a line in the sand against imperialism was necessary to bring about the radical changes he wanted to see in the United States. “{The Black Alliance for Peace demands that the Congressional Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus end AFRICOM.”