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Jeb Sprague
Bolivian Coup Plotters Were Trained by US Military and Served as Attaches in FBI Police Programs
20 Nov 2019
Commanders of Bolivia’s military and police who helped plot the coup were educated for insurrection at the US military’s School of the Americas and FBI training programs. “The role of military and police officials trained by the US was pivotal in forcing regime change.” The United States played a…
Vijay Prashad
After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia
20 Nov 2019
The main target in Bolivia is the nation’s massive deposits of lithium, crucial for the electric car. “Bolivia has struggled to raise investment to develop the lithium reserves in a way that brings the wealth back into the country for its people.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zachary Casey’s A Pedagogy of “Anticapitalist Antiracism”
20 Nov 2019
Many antiracist practices in schools are almost immediately coopted, privatized, and rendered ineffective. “What does a white person confessing their privilege actually do, in a material sense, to combat white supremacy?”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicholas Jones’s “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain”
20 Nov 2019
“Behaving, talking, and sounding too black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race. “Black folks will always hack the systems of oppression and revel in black joy and wit.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 Nov 2019
This week readers discuss Trump and Syria, Obama’s presidency, and the return of McCarthyism. We share your letters for “The Robbers Have Come Home to Roost,” “Obama Condemns ‘Call Out’ Culture Despite Being Its Biggest Beneficiary,
Wilfred Codrington III
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
20 Nov 2019
The nation’s oldest structural racial entitlement program is one of its most consequential: the Electoral College. “The three-fifths compromise was the foundation for the Electoral College.”
Jordan Smith
Texas Court Halts Rodney Reed Execution Over Questions of Withheld Evidence, False Testimony
20 Nov 2019
A Black man gets a reprieve from execution in the death of a white woman who may have been killed by her cop husband. “Over the years the courts have erected barriers to those with solid evidence of innocence.”
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
A War Criminal Chastises Children
20 Nov 2019
“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly.” — Drone Ranger, aka .44 Magnum, aka Iceberg Slim. It’s been four years since he strode from the War House, Saddlebags bulging, and galloped into…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Victoire Ingabire Walks a Knife Edge in Rwanda
20 Nov 2019
The mass murderer that the US helped put in power in Rwanda flew into a raging rant against the woman who symbolizes the hopes of that country’s majority. “Kagame seemed to threaten her personally, though not by name.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Book Review: Learning From the Soviet Collapse to Ignite a Socialist Revival
20 Nov 2019
The rise of liberal capitalist tendencies in the Communist Party led to Perestroika and the eventual overthrow of Soviet socialism. “The legacy of the Soviet Union been shaped by lies and anti-communist smears.”