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Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
26 Jun 2019
Today we discuss Bernie Sanders in 2020 and Mahatma Gandhi in the anti-colonial struggle. Strong comments came for “The Ruling Class Will Not Tolerate the Sanders-Led Assault on Austerity.” We also received a few substantive comments on radio segment “Gandhi’s Struggle Relevant to…
Paul Street
Mayor Pete’s White House Race Trips on Race
26 Jun 2019
The gay young presidential candidate’s cops killed a Black father on Father’s Day, but Butiggieg snubbed the community vigil. “The neoliberal, developer-friendly pro-gentrification mayor has poured salt on the city’s racial wounds.” A Mayoral Sighting in the Wrong City I saw Mayor Pete at the local…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
2020 Democratic Party Debates Encircle Sanders with Wall Street’s Political Dogs
26 Jun 2019
Wall Street wants Harris, Buttigieg, and Biden to dominate the floor and shut down Sanders. “The ‘political revolution’ that Sanders proposes is too left for the ruling class but not left enough for humanity.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Biden and the Shame of the Black Misleaders
26 Jun 2019
The misleaders are tacitly admitting that black people can expect little to be done in their favor even if the Democrats manage to win. “The CBC won’t drop Biden unless the 1% clique tell them to.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
We are Already Late to the Great Black Reparations Debate
26 Jun 2019
The following essay was prepared for the 30th annual convention of NCOBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, held June 20 - 23 in Detroit.
Ben Norton , Joe Emersberger
Corporate Media Collusion with Imperial Crimes
26 Jun 2019
The corporate press buried a study linking US sanctions to mass deaths in Venezuela, while an article shows the NYT submits stories to Washington for approval. So Who Is Reporting That Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans? by Joe Emersberger
Dr. Barbara Reynolds
Salacious FBI Information Again Attacks Character of MLK
27 Jun 2019
Coretta Scott King heard and dismissed the FBI tapes that writer David Garrow claims implicate Dr King in rape. Mrs. King often shared with me her distrust of Garrow because of his close ties to the F.B.I.,”
Colin Jenkins
The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why It Went Down
03 Jul 2019
Those who orchestrated the coup (the top 1%) claimed about a quarter of all wealth during the 1980s, and now own over 40% of all wealth in the country. "The organizational counterattack of business in the 1970s was a domestic version of Shock and Awe.”
Ellen Brown
Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street
03 Jul 2019
Facebook reportedly has high hopes that Libra will become the foundation for a new financial system free of control by Wall Street power brokers and central banks. “Handing global power to the corporate-controlled Libra Association could be a nightmare.”
Jeff Bryant
Why Public Schools’ Best Days Could Be Ahead of Us
03 Jul 2019
Many school districts that were seized by the states are returning to local control, but without adequate funding. “They will continue to work to undermine the elected board and the public schools.”