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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Liat Ben-Moshe’s “Decarcerating Disability”
26 Aug 2020
Disability studies looks at disability as an identity and culture and not as a deficit to be corrected. “Prison abolition and decarceration have happened already, in the form of massive closures of disability residential institutions and psychiatric hospitals.”
Jahan Choudhry Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
26 Aug 2020
This week you discussed the Biden-Harris ticket and the country’s political prisoners. We share your letters for “Freedom Rider: ‘Feet to the Fire’ and Other Lies” and “US Lies About Political Prisoners - And Almost Everything Else.”
Paul Street
Chicago is Dystopian Police State of Racial Oppression and Class Rule
26 Aug 2020
While her cops bust heads and kettle protesters, Chicago’s Black mayor Lori Lightfoot works behind the scenes with Trump’s “Operation Legend” agents to crack down on the inner city. “This is What a Police State Looks Like” Covid-era Chicago is a dystopian racist police state.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For my Postal Worker Brothers and Sisters
26 Aug 2020
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” --Herodotus Through staffing/scheduling sabotage— Overthrow of overtime, 10 and 12 hour shifts, double routes and delivery delays…
Anthony Monteiro
James Baldwin Still Matters and Eddie Glaude’s Book on Him Doesn’t
26 Aug 2020
Glaude has done a great injustice to Baldwin, turning the great Black writer and thinker into a mere liberal burned out by trauma and a sense of his fragility. “Baldwin imagined a new world and wide possibilities for struggle; Glaude imagines nothing.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
“The Man Who Heals Women” Calls for an International Criminal Tribunal for Congo
26 Aug 2020
The West lavishes praise on Dr. Denis Mukwege for healing victims of weaponized sexual violence but protects the perpetrators, writes Ann Garrison. “The same traitors who have been acting in collusion with foreign forces for over 25 years.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
U.S. Militarism toward China is Part and Parcel of American Hegemony Syndrome
26 Aug 2020
American hegemony syndrome has shifted public attention away from the critical problems facing humanity by demonizing China. “Military expansionism compensates for the fact that the U.S. has lost to China in the realm of economic competition.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats are Officially Republicans
26 Aug 2020
The Democrats claim to be the opposition party, but they seek out Republicans, hate the left of their own party, and don’t seem to care if they lose the election. “Biden’s slogan may as well be He’s Not Trump because that is all the Democrats had to say.” The Democratic Party has ended any debate…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Biden Offers Nothing But More War, Austerity and White Supremacy – Without Trump
27 Aug 2020
Biden is an unreconstructed racist and warmonger who has been in the forefront of austerity, and Harris is a party hack and mass Black incarcerator who became a prosecutor with police union endorsement. “Biden’s acceptance speech put forward not one word that hinted at programmatic change on racial…
Patrick D. Anderson
WikiLeaks, Still Revealing Truths About Power, Officially Launches Bibliography
02 Sep 2020
The interpretations of and commentaries in the bibliography vary widely, from unquestionable support for WikiLeaks to outright hatred of Assange. “The section on Julian Assange’s writings and interviews provides readers a chance to systematically study his thought firsthand.”