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Mark P. Fancher
The USA – Immoral, Illegal, Irredeemable, and Irrelevantto Global Africa’s Liberation Struggle
12 May 2021
The U.S. can never be reformed to render justice to its African residents. “Our struggle must have Africa at its core.” The seemingly endless debate in America over what people of African ancestry should call themselves has made many of us weary -- and with good reason. Consensus on this question…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The acrobats are back…(gimme a bleepin’ break!)
12 May 2021
The acrobats are back—riding bareback and backwards on Donkeys! They’re back juggling hocus-pocus focus groups; Back, spinning Wall Street straw into fools’ gold for the war- mongering mouth of a punch drunk politician. Back hallucinating on FDR Fairytales. Back somersaulting over scarlet…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
From Palestine to Colombia: The End of the White World Colonial/Capitalist Project?
12 May 2021
Despite the quickening decline of the “West,” the US and its junior partners in imperialism are determined to hold humanity hostage to terminal capitalist greed and violence. “Biden labels himself an ‘Atlanticist’ — shorthand for a white supremacist.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Open Letter to Superstar Rapper J. Cole about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
12 May 2021
Dear Mr. Cole: I’m no rap or hip hop aficionado, so I contacted my fellow Pacifica Radio producer and Hard Knock Radio host Davey D. Cook to see what he could tell me about you as soon as I saw that you’ll be suiting up to play for the Rwandan Patriots at the debut of the Basketball…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
The Mother’s Day Massacre: Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1985
12 May 2021
Four years into his own ordeal as a political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal charged Philadelphia’s government with premeditated mass murder in the slaughter of MOVE men, women and children. “Abu-Jamal condemned the excessive force used against MOVE and questioned the fairness of the trial, drawing the…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Democrats Give an “A” Grade to Joe Biden’s Brand of Corporate Rule. Should the Left?
12 May 2021
Biden’s policies thus far represent the bare minimum response of a social order mired in total decay. “Biden is nothing more than a placeholder presidency for the ruling class.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The End of Low Wage Work
12 May 2021
The combination of unemployment and additional stimulus support has made staying home a better economic decision than working for peanuts under stressful conditions. “The opportunity to hear why workers make a logical choice is never heard.” The latest popular lament in the United States is not…
Gregory Shupak
Israel/Palestine Coverage Presents False Equivalency Between Occupied and Occupier
19 May 2021
“As an occupying power, Israel does not have a legal right to claim self-defense against the people it occupies.” Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false…
New African Institute
Disinformation in Tigray: Manufacturing Consent For a Secessionist War
19 May 2021
Corporate media in the imperial countries have spread disinformation on the real nature of the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray state. “Eritrea has served as the primary scapegoat.”
Denise Lynn
Alphaeus Hunton: The Unsung Valiant, by Dorothy Hunton
19 May 2021
Hunton’s devotion to peace and “mutual cooperation” came out of his understanding that “war and militarism were endemic” to capitalism. “Hunton was ‘steadfast’ in his anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism, in his attacks on racism, and in his commitment to a ‘socialist world devoid of the violence…