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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Stephen Gowans’ “Washington’s Long War on Syria”
25 Sep 2019
Three hostile foreign powers—Israel, Turkey and the United States—occupy parts of Syria in defiance of international law. “Washington seeks to inflame sectarian divisions to prevent Arabs coalescing as an independent political force.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Rinaldo Walcott and Idil Abdillahi’s “BlackLife”
25 Sep 2019
The book seeks to unmake the idea that Black people in Canada occupy some “special” place in diaspora. “Liberal democratic societies are fundamentally in opposition to BlackLife fully thriving as a form of life.”
BAR Poet-in-Resident Raymond Nat Turner
Save the Children..from maturity
25 Sep 2019
Why do I cry when I see sixteen year-olds Fearless and wise beyond their years, wielding swords of science—slaying share- holders’ senators and clean-coal congressmen on Capitalist Hill? Why do I cry when I see sixteen year-olds Fearless and wise beyond their years, teaching lobotomized…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
2016 Revisited: Electronic Balloting Favored Clinton, Paper Balloting Sanders
25 Sep 2019
Investigators call it “strange patterns in data”— that saw Hillary Clinton win primaries with electronic ballots, and Bernie Sanders victorious in paper ballot states. “The most preferable method is hand-counted paper ballots, next most preferable are paper ballots scanned by some sort of machine.”
BAR staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
25 Sep 2019
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
An Imperial Mindset Protects the Real Enemy of the People: U.S. Militarism
25 Sep 2019
The so-called left’s regurgitation of imperial talking points on Venezuela and Mugabe assists the billionaire ruling elite’s efforts to destroy any challenge to the rule of profit. “The movement behind Sanders lacks an anti-imperialist program and sees war more as an individual issue.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The WFP, Phony Outrage and Black Misleaders
25 Sep 2019
The co-founder of Black Lives Matter has struck a cynical deal with corporate Democrats to boost Elizabeth Warren by attacking Bernie Sanders forces as racist. “The Working Families Party is a perfect partner for the fraud because it exists only as a cover for the Democrats.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
25 Sep 2019
This week you wrote back about Hollywood imperial propaganda and the firing of John Bolton. We share your comments on “Freedom Rider: Hollywood Propaganda Attack on Venezuela” and “
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Drop the Term “Austerity” – It’s the Race to the Bottom
26 Sep 2019
In the corporate-organized Race to the Bottom, withdrawal of health care is a weapon to discipline workers and their families, as is the whole “austerity” regime. “Capital found a solution to falling profits with the promise of super-exploitation of labor in what used to be called the Third…
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
26 Sep 2019
This week you discussed nuclear contamination, the electability of Joe Biden, and theories of racism. We share your letters for “Operation Brown Nose: US Aids French Dirty Work in Africa,” “Freedom Rider: The Electability Canard,” and “Black