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Vijay Prashad
How to Commit War Crimes – and Get Away With It
04 Dec 2019
Not only should war crimes charges be brought against the US and UK, but these aggressor nations’ political leaders should face imprisonment. “There have been no serious ICC investigations of any power that is closely aligned with the United States.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nolan Cabrera’s “White Guys on Campus”
04 Dec 2019
Cabrera’s book directly pushes against the notion that White racism only exists within “ignorant” White people or “rednecks” and “hillbillies.” “Racism on college campuses is even more endemic than originally thought.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Leah Vernon’s “Unashamed”
04 Dec 2019
A coming of age story of a Black Muslim girl living in America during trying social and political times. “Self-love is something that you have be working at each and every day.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
04 Dec 2019
This time readers talked about overcoming ingrained racism and the possibilities of a Bernie Sanders presidency. We share letters for “The Origins of White Supremacy” and “Barack Obama and the Ruling Class Target the Black Vote to Smother Sanders
Michael Barajas
Where the Bodies Are Buried
04 Dec 2019
Descendants of survivors of a 1910 massacre of Blacks in East Texas vow not to rest until the victims bodies have been found. “The killings in Slocum were emblematic of the kind of white-on-black violence that shaped the region and the state.”
Gary Johnson
GOOD AND DEAD
04 Dec 2019
On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Killing of Fred Hampton by Chicago Police Chicago never an enlightened city has declared itself a sanctuary city to blunt federal predatory immigration policy and shrieks of a tweeter-in-chief inciting his base’s hatred of The Other
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Boss Tweet’s Blitzkrieg
04 Dec 2019
I wake in a cold sweat, scrambling for the internet— What salvoes were let loose while we slept? How badly Bombed is the safety net? What rights are left? What damage has the daily dose of …
Contributing Editor Ann Garrison
Millions Die in Congo While the UN Keeps the Peace
04 Dec 2019
The UN Peacekeeping Mission has been in Congo for 20 years without protecting the people or the peace. “Rwanda is responsible for what is going wrong in the peace in Congo!”
BAR Contributing Editor Danny Haiphong
Colin Kaepernick Shows that American Innocence is a White Supremacist Sport
04 Dec 2019
The Black struggle for dignity and self-determination will forever be criminalized as a problem by the white elite and their hirelings in the Black misleadership class. “We must hold Black servants of the American Empire accountable.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Liberals Love the Military
04 Dec 2019
Self-styled liberals believe they are a better class of people than Trump, but are bigger supporters of unjust wars than the so-called “deplorables.” “Liberals eagerly wait for a war they can believe in.”