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by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Botham Jean and America’s Apartheid Police State
16 Oct 2019
The death of Black males under American apartheid is not only absolved by white society but also treated as necessary for the upkeep of the status quo. “The shock troops for the American apartheid regime can depend on the Black misleadership class for protection and safety.”
by BAR Staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
16 Oct 2019
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-agenda-reports-13th-anniversary-tickets-72333259727 by Bar Staff Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Syria: Exposing Western Radical Collaboration with Imperialism
16 Oct 2019
“Western radicals must take a consistent anti-imperialist position despite the internal contradictions or problems that existwithin a state in the Global South.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump, Obama and Syria
16 Oct 2019
Whether by mistake or design, Donald Trump is presiding over the – agonizing slow – demise of Barack Obama’s illegal and immoral scheme to overthrow the government of Syria using jihadist terror armies. “The unipolar world is no more.”
Jemima Pierre
Haiti and the Convenience of Imperial Amnesia
16 Oct 2019
The ongoing protests in Haiti are ultimately directed against the “Core Group” – US imperialism and its junior partners, who have teamed up to gang-bang the wounded and bleeding Black republic. “The young people have been protesting under the idea that Haiti not only needs the resignation of…
Prime Minister Gaston Browne
Reparations for Development and Justice for the Caribbean
23 Oct 2019
The labor costs alone of our forebears would have created a debt of approximately two trillion dollars, which must be repaid. “Reparations and its compensatory mechanisms could be utilized as the new frontier to achieve equity, global peace and unity.” The following is an address by Antigua Prime…
Jay Reeves
America’s Last Slave Ship Could Offer a Case for Reparations
23 Oct 2019
The riches that accrued from the last US slave shipment are in plain site of the voyage’s descendants in Mobile, Alabama. “The international slave trade was already outlawed, but Meaher wagered he could import slaves in defiance of the ban.” Alabama steamship owner Timothy Meaher financed the last…
by BAR Staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
23 Oct 2019
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Joe Iosbaker
“The Damned Don’t Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer” -- a Review of a book by Frank Edgar Chapman, Jr.
23 Oct 2019
Frank Chapman’s book should be on the shelf with the Autobiography of Malcolm X and Soledad Brother. “Chapman is very clear that it was the massive movement to free Angela Davis which paved the way to freedom for him and other political prisoners.”
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Stop The Turkish Invasion Of Syria
23 Oct 2019
The same jihadist head-choppers that the US deployed against Syria are now fighting alongside Turkey to occupy the northeast of the country. “Each of Trump’s efforts to get out of Syria has been opposed by bipartisan war hawks.” The crisis in Syria has taken a new direction with the Turkish…