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Nu’man Abd al-Wahid
Whitewashing the Destruction of Libya: Douglas Murray’s Libya Whitewash
23 Sep 2020
The British, both left and right, simply do not want to acknowledge the role their government played in destroying Libya and the attendant migration crises. “The destruction of Libya caused the first migration flow across the Mediterranean into Europe.”
Netfa Freeman
Expanding Monstrous US Drone War to Kenya is Bi-Partisan Madness
23 Sep 2020
The absence of a domestic backlash against US Africa policy is testament to the blind spots of our movement. “The whole world must begin to see AFRICOM and the militarization of police departments as counterparts.” Instead of being a remnant of its past, US genocidal repression, labor exploitation…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Minna Salami’s Book, “Sensuous Knowledge”
23 Sep 2020
Sensuous Knowledge is an approach to knowledge production that can help you see reality clearly, wholly, with all your faculties. “Europatriarchal Knowledge is a nonsensical construct even by its own measures.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joy White’s “Terraformed”
23 Sep 2020
This book locates the struggles, wins and losses of young Black lives in a structural, institutional and historical context. “What we see in affluent but unequal societies is a cycle of punitive measures, surveillance and control.”
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
23 Sep 2020
This week climate change, US foreign policy, and Mexico’s new government were on your minds.
Tryon P. Woods
Still Missing and Murdered: Atlanta’s Lost Children Address Today’s Plague of Police Violence
23 Sep 2020
The docu-series reveals not only the ongoing predation against the Black community, but that policing is about social control, not crime control. “The abductions and murder of black children are acts of terror against the black community as a whole.”
Anthony Monteiro
Isabel Wilkerson’s Book "Caste" and the Discontent of a Ruling Class in Crisis
23 Sep 2020
Oprah gushes that this book by the latest darling of the ruling classes might “save us,” but all it’s really trying to save is capitalism. “Wilkerson’s understanding of caste is not as a scholar, but as a dilletante and amateur.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
OK to say the F-word?
23 Sep 2020
P.O.E.T. are the only letters behind my name— So you scowl; scold; spank my hands with rulers and switches worn smooth from serial beatdowns, dare I use the F-word… “Where’s the jackboots, the stiff salutes?” “Where’s the lil’ funny mustached fella—the flamboyant baldheaded buffoon?” you chide “…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Demilitarizing the NFL
23 Sep 2020
Nation Magazine sportswriter Dave Zirin, speaking to Ann Garrison, says that militarism is a founding feature of American football, not just a bug, but we don’t have to accept it in football or other team sports. “We shouldn't expect athletes to develop a kind of political consciousness,…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
.Biden and the Democrats Have No Plan to Stop the Bleeding—at Home or Abroad
23 Sep 2020
The Democrats say they’re running against the most “dangerous president in modern American history,” but Joe Biden has no prescription for resolving any of the crises facing Black and working class people. “Trump is the symptom of the U.S.’ racist and imperialist system and Biden is no threat to…