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Eoin Higgins
Data Shows How Bernie Dominates the Contributor Race
07 Aug 2019
Bernie Sanders’s is the individual donor king all across the country, except a few islands of wealth. “Nearly one out of every three donors who have given to any presidential campaign have donated to Sen. Bernie Sanders.” Individual donors to Democratic candidates for the party's 2020 presidential…
Thomas Meany
White Power: At Home and Abroad
07 Aug 2019
Where most people see a “lone shooter,” the armed White Power movement sees “leaderless resistance.” “For much of the 20th century, the struggles against communism and black progress were close to indistinguishable.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Popular Resistance Newsletter - Another Year Closer to Winning Medicare for All
07 Aug 2019
Democratic Party voters are showing that the momentum for Medicare for All may not be stoppable. “This is a movement that will not compromise in support of false solutions.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Chantal Gibson’s “How She Read”
07 Aug 2019
The author’s book is an exercise in excavating the imperialist ideologies in old primary school readers and vocabulary spellers. “I hope readers will un-learn hegemony.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is …
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Josef Sorett’s “Spirit in the Dark”
07 Aug 2019
When we are talking about religion, we are always already talking about race; and vice versa. “Religion and the arts are anything but mutually exclusive or inherently opposed to each other.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
07 Aug 2019
Today we discuss racism’s relationship to US empire and Nancy Pelosi’s role as opposition to Trump. We print your letters for “Descent into Barbarism: Silently Killing the Vulnerable” and “Nancy Pelosi: The leader of the ‘Hizb al-Shaitan
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
What Good Is a New Cold War Without a New Arm$ Race?
07 Aug 2019
The US and Russia are closer to annihilating each other and the world than ever before, but Democrats think Trump is too friendly with Putin. “Trump is pursuing probably the most aggressive foreign policy that any US president has pursued in a long time.”
Rick Sterling
Tulsi Gabbard vs Google Goliath
07 Aug 2019
Tulsi Gabbard was the most-searched person on Google during the first debate – so the giant corporation shut down her account. “Google uses several techniques to manipulate public opinion.” Introduction The Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign has filed a major law suit against Google. This…
Crystal M. Fleming, Ph.D.
Trump’s Disavowal of White Supremacy Makes a Mockery of Antiracism—But So Does the Rest of the Political Establishment
07 Aug 2019
The partisan condemnation of white supremacy that has taken shape during the Trump era has reduced anti-racist critique to political theater. “Few commentators understand white supremacy as baked into a system of capitalist exploitation that reduced human beings to chattel and removed sovereign…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
THIS WEEK’S MASS MURDERS
07 Aug 2019
I just walked in the building, and I’m pissed—shaking with anger—why am I the usual, permanent suspect, Scrutinized, looked up and down, looked at sideways? Why must I always remind rent- a-pigs not to worry ‘bout me, “Black Identity Extremist;” or “Bad Hombre…