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Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The World Must End Washington’s Illegal Economic War
15 Jan 2020
The US is currently attacking one-third of the planet’s population with 8,000 economic sanctions, ongoing acts of war against 39 nations. “Their intent is to shrink the economy and cause chronic shortages and hyperinflation while ensuring a lack of access to finance to pay for essentials.”
Djibo Sobukwe
Ahmed Sékou Touré’s Unique and Dynamic Contribution to the Philosophy of Class Struggle
15 Jan 2020
The ideology of Touréism combines aspects of Marxist – Leninist methodology with traditional African values. “There is no part of the peoples’ socio-cultural life that capitalism/ imperialism does not attempt to dominate, commodify and corrupt.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Courtney Pace’s “Freedom Faith”
15 Jan 2020
“Freedom Faith” is the belief that God wants all people to be free, and that God equips and empowers those who work for freedom. “It is possible for us to be both oppressed and oppressor.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s “Reimagining Liberation”
15 Jan 2020
When fascism was on the march Black women intellectuals and activists imagined, and struggled for, a new world. “Black women are political protagonists, not secondary characters in global movements.”
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 Jan 2020
Since our last column readers have been writing to us about the assassination of Gen Soleimani and the coup in Bolivia. We share your letters for “Will the Assassination of Gen. Soleimani Be Trump’s 1914 Moment?” and “Pachamama and the Pope.”
BAP-Baltimore
Baltimore’s Black Alliance for Peace Demands End to Policing Surge
15 Jan 2020
Baltimore is among the seven cities targeted by the Trump administration for a high-tech “surge” in police penetration of Black communities. “Increased militarization of police departments leads to increased numbers of civilians murdered by police.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Voices of the California Progressive Alliance
15 Jan 2020
The anti-corporate, pro-public bank alliance has thrown Its support to Bernie Sanders. “Our central goal for 2020, is to elect corporate-free candidates to all levels of government and pass strong progressive ballot measures.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
It’s not personal, it’s Business…
15 Jan 2020
Blood!Fire! First 48 hours New Year; New Decade. Primitive, hi- tech bloodshed for rogue state ‘freedom’ muscling in on Mullah turf. Luftwaffe whacks gangster rivals. Headlines should scream; History whispers: It’s not personal, it’s business… Wehrmacht stock just shot to the…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
Trump Prosecutors Make Move to Ensure that Embassy Protectors are Convicted
15 Jan 2020
Trump’s prosecutors are trying to suppress the facts of the US attempted coup in Venezuela, and railroad the Embassy Protectors to prison. “The prosecutors would leave the jury wearing a blindfold, unaware of the facts, context or why the Embassy Protectors were in the embassy.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
My Trip to China Exposed the Shameful Lies Peddled by the American Empire
15 Jan 2020
China is a land of bullet trains and rising standards of living, in contrast to the decay of the imperial center, the United States. “Pollution and income and wealth inequality remains problems for ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics.’”