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Дэвид Свонсон
Putin Claims to Have Sabotaged Mueller Report
03 Apr 2019
Trump could shoot Putin in the middle of Red Square and would still be seen as a Russian asset by true believers in CIA propaganda. “Trump would appear at odds with Putin.” 1 April 2019, Moscow — In an interview Sunday evening on Russian television, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to…
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Demands Black Caucus Hold Hearings on US Militarization of Africa
03 Apr 2019
As part of its “US Out of Africa” campaign, BAP collected thousands of signatures demanding Black lawmakers fulfill their responsibilities to Africa and peace. “The collective voice of elected Black leaders has been muted and overtaken by war drums.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Ms. Cortez Goes to Washington
04 Apr 2019
“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.” —Lucy Parsons Bloody flashbacks: southern senators sitting on Capitalist Hill…’til Rigor mortis set in… evolution of African-American voting
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies
04 Apr 2019
The U.S. has nothing to offer Africa but guns, drones and an extended half-life for the neocolonial order. “Although Donald Trump has gotten a respite from Mueller, the orchestrated demonization of Russia, China, Venezuela, Syria and ‘socialism’ will remain.”
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth
10 Apr 2019
Mass Black incarceration didn’t just happen; it was engineered at the highest levels of US government. “Between the late 1960s and early 1980s, the federal government slowly built a trap, creating the conditions for the mass incarceration of black youth.” From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime…
Joan P. Gibbs and Rosemari Mealy
An open letter to the Congressional Black Caucus on the US’s attacks on Venezuela and Cuba
10 Apr 2019
Washington’s generations-long blockade and aggressions against Cuba have now been extended to Venezuela, all in violation of international law. “US actions are tantamount to a declaration of war against Venezuela and Cuba and their peoples.” Greetings. We write to urge you to support the…
Rafael Stedile
Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party launched in South Africa
10 Apr 2019
Over a thousand gathered in Johannesburg to attend the Launch Congress of the party which seeks to build socialism in South Africa “We are serious about the Revolution.”
Todd Steven Burroughs
Newark’s Black-Powered Engineer: Kenneth Gibson (1932-2019)
10 Apr 2019
The still-chocolate city bids farewell to its first Black mayor. “There was a determination to make him fit into a Black Power vibe that just wasn’t him.”
Rob Smith
Julian Assange Threatened With Expulsion from Embassy
10 Apr 2019
Ecuador’s president appears to be using Assange as a bargaining chip for debt relief. “If Assange is expelled from the embassy, he will most likely then be extradited to the US to face trial in a kangaroo court.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shane Vogel’s “Stolen Time”
10 Apr 2019
The 1950s calypso craze provided black performers with new occasions to intervene in the public sphere as well as new creative and financial opportunities. “Calypso craze performers appropriated the fleeting time of the fad to alter some of the conditions of black labor in entertainment and…