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Adofo Minka
Policing Lumumba’s Jackson: Surveillance and Credible Messengers in the Most Radical City
13 Nov 2019
Mayor Lumumba’s unabashed support of police demonstrates that his administration lacks the political courage and will to chart a new course. “The more Lumumba proclaims radicalism, the more he flirts with social control and suppression of fundamental human rights.”
G1 of Rebel Diaz
What the Chilean People’s Enemies in the US are Planning
13 Nov 2019
Elites in Chile take their cues from places like the University of Chicago, where the author witnessed technocrats plotting to save the ruling order from popular uprising. “Chile is the canary in the coal mine.”
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Mentors and me
13 Nov 2019
Standing out in the cold shivering, shoveling white bean soup in my mouth, A mentor appears, two assistants in tow. Mind butcher shop sharp with a New York nano second for bullshit, she’s heard scores of $campaign slogans and $election promises… Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal interview…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Obama Condemns “Call Out Culture” Despite Being Its Biggest Beneficiary
13 Nov 2019
Obama’s cynical analysis of youth activism was yet another dog whistle to the wealthiest and most conservative sections of white America. “Obama was really taking aim at the increasingly left posture of millennials.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Rwanda Exports 2,163 kg of Gold, UAE Imports 12,539 kg of It
13 Nov 2019
The final 2019 UN Group of Experts Report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo confirms that Congo’s eastern neighbor Rwanda remains a haven for smuggling Congolese minerals. “Earlier UN reports said that during the Second Congo War of 1998 to 2003, President Paul Kagame’s government created a ‘…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Hybrid Warfare in Bolivia and Beyond
13 Nov 2019
The violent coup in Bolivia, like all of Washington’s regime-change and dirty tricks operations, has been aided and abetted by corporate media’s masters of euphemism. “The government’s lies must be many and they must be promoted constantly.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Race is Central to Both Revolution and Reaction in Latin American
14 Nov 2019
The world birthed in the near extinction of one-fifth of humanity still exists, in the social relations bequeathed to the Americas by conquistadors and enslavers. “In Latin America, U.S. influence means White Power.”
Martha Waggoner
Marker Now Calls 1898 Violence in Wilmington a “Coup,” Not a “Race Riot”
20 Nov 2019
White Democrats burned and killed their way to power in what's viewed as the only successful coup d'etat in American history. "Black lives didn't matter at that time in terms of reporting or documentation." The state of North Carolina is moving away from using the phrase "race riot" to describe the…
Nida Khan
When Even The FBI Can’t Hold Police Accountable, How Can Anyone Else?
20 Nov 2019
A brutal New Jersey police chief who routinely spouted racist slurs and threats was fingered by his own officers, but exonerated in court. “Nucera faced three counts: a federal hate crime charge, deprivation of civil rights under color of law and lying to the FBI.”
Afro-descendants of Our America
Final Declaration of the Afro-descendant International Congress Tribute to the Afro-Venezuelan Cimarron “Guillermo Ribas”
20 Nov 2019
Neoliberal globalization deepens exploitation, while imposing a cultural homogenization that does not know the history of peoples, their traditions and their identity. “The offensive of U.S. elites and their allies seeks to end the cycle of progressive governments to impose neo-colonial relations…