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Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
22 Jan 2020
This week impeachment and China were topics of discussion. We share your letters for “Dems Won’t Impeach Trump for Crimes They Favor” and “My Trip to China Exposed the Shameless Lies of Peddled by the American Empire.”
David Swanson
Forty-Five Felons With Their Own Holiday: The U.S. Presidency
22 Jan 2020
Margaret Kimberley’s new book on US presidents and Black people shows why the executive mansion is called the “White” House. “FDR told his Attorney General, ‘I warned you not to call me again about any of Eleanor’s niggers.’”
Eric Mann
Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition
22 Jan 2020
Dr. King brought a powerful and frontal indictment of the system of white supremacist, racist, capitalism. “He rejected U.S. chauvinism, called for a militant internationalism, and challenged the U.S. Empire at home and abroad.”
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
No, he did-ant—call her Pocahontas—did he?!
22 Jan 2020
"I’m a capitalist to my bones…” - Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA No, the dumb Don did-ant call Hocus-Pocus, “Pocahontas—“ did he?! She ride elephant until age 47— She smoke Wall Street Peace pipe; She swab red, white and blue warpaint from cheek— and confirm: 1/5 Armaho, 1/5 Air Forceaho…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The New York Fed’s Financial Stranglehold on Iraq
22 Jan 2020
The US is threatening to seize Iraq’s oil revenues if Baghdad expels American troops. “If they want to cut you off from the global economy, they can do so at the flick of a switch.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
White Supremacy and War Are Vise Grips Strangling the Working Class: What we Can Learn from China
22 Jan 2020
The same white supremacist ideology that dehumanizes Black Americans also steers the US Empire’s regime of endless war abroad. “China teaches us is that the U.S. no longer holds a monopoly on the economic and political direction of humanity.” This article was originally intended as remarks to the…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Internet Does Washington’s Dirty Work
22 Jan 2020
As long as the internet is in private hands it should be seen as a “frenemy” -- a useful resource that can also be wielded as a weapon. “Black people are routinely sent to “facebook jail” if their words anger racist white people.”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the Global Race to the Bottom
23 Jan 2020
Bloomberg has put himself and his fortune into the contest to rally his (ruling) classmates to the task of shoring up corporate control of the Party if Sanders seizes the top spot. “The fate and fortunes of the oligarchy cannot be allowed to depend on Old Shaky Joe.”
Earl Hazell
Blues for Jimmy: In Celebration of the Life of Jimmy Heath
29 Jan 2020
The author studied jazz composition and arranging under “a funny, smart-aleck, short, kind, genius composer and tenor sax player” – a musical giant. “Jazz was pure within its paradoxes; unmistakably Black, and incomprehensibly beautiful.”
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Juan Guaidó: One Year of Promises and Submission to Donald Trump
29 Jan 2020
What has happened in the year since Juan Guaidó declared himself president of Venezuela? “The Venezuelan people hope that the opposition led by Guaidó participates in the elections, recognizes the results and that other countries do not interfere.”