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Mumia Abu Jamal Newspaper Admonishes DA to Stop Defending the Indefensible
24 Feb 2021
“If DA Krasner wants to embrace anti-racist principles…then he needs to take an honest look at the facts of Mumia’s case.” “DA Krasner can no longer ignore what we are saying, and he can no longer claim that he has not been presented with our evidence of police, prosecutorial, and judicial…
Paul Ringel
Why a Shootout Between Black Panthers and Law Enforcement 50 Years Ago Matters Today
24 Feb 2021
The 1971 raid marks a nationwide militarization of police relations with Black protest groups and Africa Americans as a group. “The force was ‘heavily armed and wearing flak jackets.’” In the early hours of Feb. 10, 1971, police surrounded a property in High Point, North Carolina, where…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adam Kotsko’s “Neoliberalism’s Demons”
24 Feb 2021
Nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression and exclusion are an integral part of the neoliberal order. “Neoliberalism is an attempt to impose a weird kind of moral order on the world, which promises limitless free choice but actually sets the vast majority of us up…
Dr. Gerald Horne
BAR Book Forum: Gerald Horne’s The Dawning of the Apocalypse
24 Feb 2021
Britain is, indeed, the “mother country” of US white supremacy, having bythe 13th century become “The First Racial State in the West.” “As time passed, it was London’s model, then accelerated by Washington, that prevailed,: focusing enslavement tightly on Africans and those of…
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Feb 2021
This week you discussed the struggle against the dollar and neocolonialism. We share your letters for “World Rebelling Against Dollar Domination” and “Haiti: Black Despots and White Rulers.”
Minkah Makalami
Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race
24 Feb 2021
To dismiss the logic of Robinson’s “racial capitalism,” one must ignore the only history of capitalism we have. “Black radicalism suggests a poetics that can be found in the generative potential of human interaction, with all its historical contingencies and unpredictability.”
Joy James
Revolutionary Love in Shades of Darkness
24 Feb 2021
Combined with Revolutionary Love, we grow power through mutual aid, political education, release of the incarcerated, and community control over police. “Revolutionary Love is not romantic or charming.”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
He’s under suspicion…
24 Feb 2021
The rioters all knew him— it had to be an inside job— ‘cause to a man they spoke to him by name as they breached the building. Read their lips… And that staged chase? Please… Why, if it had been real he would have done what any Officer fearing for his life would have done—Any officer who…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Democracy Now Provides Progressive Cover to State Department Propaganda Campaign Against China
24 Feb 2021
The show has become a reliable platform for uncritical regime change propaganda, demonizing targets of US empire from Syria to Nicaragua. “DN often acts as a force multiplier for the State Department.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rusesabagina’s Show Trial and Shooting Deaths of a Rwandan Dissident and an Italian Ambassador
24 Feb 2021
Is there any limit to how far the West will go to cover for Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s Crimes? asks Ann Garrison. “With every war, kidnapping, and murder on foreign soil, Kagame’s critics ask if he’s finally gone too far, while the US is still Rwanda’s top bilateral donor.”