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Solomon Comissiong
The Democratic Party's Theatrical Performances: Fooling Black Voters for Decades
12 Feb 2020
The Democrats are terrible at passing legislation that helps Black and poor people but fantastically talented at political theater. “The difference is that Republicans don’t pretend to be anything but white supremacists.” It is the time of the year in which the white-dominated, and…
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Keep War, Environmental Degradation and Profit Out of Space
12 Feb 2020
The US is escalating the arms race because it sees its hegemonic military and economic power weakening. “This will be the most expensive arms race in history.”
K.J. Noh
How to Yellow-Cake a Tragedy: The New York Times Spreads the Virus of Hatred, Again
12 Feb 2020
The US corporate media, especially the Times, has turned a medical emergency into a racist campaign of ideological propaganda. “The New York Times has been avidly red-baiting.” “In the end, the plague touched us all...it was not confined….breeding in a compost of greed and uselessness and…
Sebastián Navarrete Aldana
Colombian Government Obstructs the Peace Agreement with the FARC Guerrilla Group
12 Feb 2020
BAR’s reporter in Colombia explores how the US-backed regime is grossly violating the peace agreement with former FARC guerillas. Translated by María Angélica Martínez “Ninety percent of the prisoners’ requests to apply the amnesty law have been denied.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aishah Shahidah Simmons’ “Love WITH Accountability”
12 Feb 2020
Simmons explores ways we can hold harm-doers accountable without getting involved with the very state that brutalizes Black and other communities of color. “We must make eradicating child sexual abuse and all forms of sexual violence a priority in our communities.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeff Ferrell’s “Drift”
12 Feb 2020
Late stage capitalism and its wars have imposed a permanent state of dislocation and disorientation on much of humanity, the “drift” of an unstable system. “Once they are set adrift, people often invent new forms of community and community activism.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
12 Feb 2020
This week you discussed Venezuela, racism in healthcare, and regime change in Libya.
Adofo Minka
Prison Reform and the State: The Impending Confrontation in Mississippi
12 Feb 2020
The recent prison reform rallies at the Mississippi Capitol were more akin to being for a Middle Passage with more efficient plumbing. “The prison systems intentionally subordinates and degrades.”
Walter Johnson
American Bottom
12 Feb 2020
One of the poorest towns in the nation, nearly all-Black Centreville, Illinois, floods with raw sewage every time it rains. “It’s like Mississippi in the 1930s.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Rush to judgement?
12 Feb 2020
Ain’t it good to know that up’s still down; bad’s still good; black’s white; Slavers still heroes—And the Drone Ranger received a Peace Prize? Ain’t it good to know that the Highest Civilian Honor goes to a bottom-feeding bully in the raw sewage Swamp? Ain’t it good to know that After…