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Kweli Nzito
America’s Triple Addiction: Lies, Race and War
03 Jul 2019
A nation that claims to be a force for good should not need 800 military bases around the world to corroborate that claim. “America has earned for itself the dubious distinction of killing more innocents in unprovoked wars of aggression than the rest of the world combined.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Asad Haider’s “Mistaken Identity”
03 Jul 2019
We face a two-pronged menace: Trump, and the Democrats that failed to prevent his rise and won’t fight his policies. “Effective struggle against racism today requires us to return to the model of radical mass organizing, rather than the moralizing rhetoric of the contemporary liberal clerics.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Dana-Ain Davis’s “Reproductive Injustice”
03 Jul 2019
A world of reproductive justice must so be rooted in respect, care and a willingness to challenge all of the practices and beliefs that place people in hierarchical relations. “Black women’s reproduction sits at the intersection of medical control and racism.”
by Jahan Choudhry, Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 Jul 2019
This week Venezuela, Zionism in the Congressional Black Caucus, and Gandhi and the anti-colonial movement are discussed. We received comments for “Why Venezuela Is the Vietnam of Our Times” and “Will New Black-Jewish Caucus in Congress Advocate for
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
WikiLeaks, the Global Fourth Estate: History Is Happening
03 Jul 2019
WikiLeaks made it possible for whistleblowers to expose government and corporate criminals anonymously. “The organization has never been compelled to retract a publication, and it has never busted a source.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Anti-imperialism is the Only Antidote for Austerity
03 Jul 2019
Privatization, predatory lending, and endless war are all preconditions to finance capital’s hegemony. “Any Democrat who dares to challenge the war machine is effectively marginalized.” Black Agenda Report contributor Danny Haiphong delivered he following remarks at BAR’s Left Forum panel, “Black…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
U.S. Militarism and the One-Sided Class War
03 Jul 2019
While the Democratic presidential candidates rehearsed their anti-Trump lines for the debates, most of the Democrats in the Senate voted for Trump’s record-breaking war spending bill. “The lopsided vote indicates that Democrats have fully embraced this insane policy of first-strike.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: U.S. Prisons are Concentration Camps
03 Jul 2019
There were already thousands of concentration camps in the United States before Donald Trump began his reign of terror over asylum seekers. They are called prisons. “All of the horrors meted out to Hondurans fleeing the government imposed upon them by the United States are already experienced by…
Bruce Dixon
Bruce Dixon, In His Own Words
03 Jul 2019
I was born to working class parents, and raised on the south side of Chicago. By 1967 I was involved in the citywide organizing effort among black high school students demanding the first black history courses and opposing the war in Vietnam. In the fall and winter of 1967 we hooked up with young…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
For Brother Bruce
03 Jul 2019
Here’s the FOIA requested, Redacted part of the story they never tell You.