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Wilmer J. Leon III
Democrats as “Liberal”? No, Neo-Liberal Capitulation
18 Dec 2019
Democratic leadership is pro-democracy in the US and opposed to it every place else in the world. “Elitist Democrats are working with the administration and neo-cons to cut taxes for the wealthy and perpetuate the military industrial complex.” “Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter Gelderloos’s “Worshiping Power”
18 Dec 2019
The anarchist author maintains that the only thing the state “is superior at is conquest.” “States are constantly upgrading in order to amass more power and deal with the unending string of disasters they cause.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eric Pritchard’s “Fashioning Lives”
18 Dec 2019
Through writing, many Black queer people are creating the world we all deserve to live in. “I hope that activists and community organizers will take away the importance of literacy as an integral part of their work.”
Patrick Blanchfield
The Thick Blue Line: How the United States Became the World’s Police Force
18 Dec 2019
Many of the tools and tactics adopted by American police over the past half century were originally deployed to fight communism abroad. “The era of intensified American policing that began in the 1960s cannot be understood outside the context of the Cold War national-security state.” Stuart…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
The old playbook
18 Dec 2019
“The hatred of Tsarism was directed particularly against the Jews. On the one hand, the Jews provided a particularly high percentage (compared to the total of the Jewish population) of leaders of the revolutionary movement. In passing, it should be said to their credit that to-day the Jews provide…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
Barring Politics from the Courtroom: The State Versus the Venezuela Embassy Protectors
18 Dec 2019
A black, Obama-appointed judge intends to hide key facts from the jury and referred to the embassy protectors as a "gang." “The embassy protectors put their bodies on the line and gave their time in solidarity with the people of Venezuela.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Pachamama and the Pope
18 Dec 2019
The violent coup in Bolivia may have been presaged by events at the Vatican, where right-wing Catholics rebelled against the Pope’s display of respect for the indigenous earth goddess. “A fundamentalist Austrian Catholic entered the Church of Santa Maria Traspontina in the dark of night and stole…
BAR Contributing Editor Danny Haiphong
The Democratic Party Has a Race Problem in the 2020 Election
18 Dec 2019
Harris’ appeals to the “Obama Coalition” and diversity were nothing but attempts to win over the Black vote while remaining loyal to the oligarchs. “Diversity does nothing to fundamentally change the white supremacist character of the Democratic Party.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Propaganda and the Defeat of Jeremy Corbyn
18 Dec 2019
If Corbyn can be defeated with a libel it can work just as well on Sanders. “Corporate in both countries behave in similar fashion and make a mockery of any claims of a free press.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Impending Ruling Class Mental Breakdown and Riot
19 Dec 2019
The outcome of the early primaries may erase Joe Biden’s “electability” luster and plunge the Lords of Capital into a panic in which all bets are off on what’s left of democratic liberties. “When the ruling class believes it is faced with existential threats, they throw bourgeois democracy out the…