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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The U.S. Empire’s Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric Racism
18 Aug 2021
More than nine years ago the late BAR publisher Glen Ford captured the essential character of the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan that is as relevant and revealing today as it was in 2012.
Alexander Ramdass, Lisa Premchand, Gary Aboud
Corruption, Pollution and Economic Crisis: The Cautionary Tale of T&T's Oil Industry
25 Aug 2021
Oil Reserves Don't Benefit the People of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), once proud, hopeful, and wealthy, is today left with nothing but a beleaguered Treasury and toxic crude poisoning our waters and food system.
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak calls for National Shut ‘Em Down Demonstrations
25 Aug 2021
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak call for Shut 'Em Down prison abolition actions in 2022.
Thomas Peralte
The Return of the Marines
25 Aug 2021
It’s hard to teach an empire new tricks. Once again, the U.S. Marines invade Haiti “for the umpteenth time” under the guise of humanitarian assistance. A battalion of U.S. Marines from North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune left for Haiti on Wednesday, August 18 under the pretext of aiding the victims of…
Black Alliance For Peace
Afghanistan is No 'Graveyard' for U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination
25 Aug 2021
Black Alliance for Peace analysis on Afghanistan, Haiti and the U.S. effort to maintain hegemony. Some have asserted the U.S. empire has reached its historic endpoint because of its defeat in Afghanistan. However, that call is as premature as political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s proclamation…
Netfa Freeman
Nicaragua at a Revolutionary Crossroads and in Imperialist Crosshairs
25 Aug 2021
U.S. attack on Nicaragua targets its Black community. There is a page in the playbook for U.S. imperialist regime change in Latin America that includes exploiting the identity politics of Blackness. A recent example was the unrest in Cuba a month ago that included a sophisticated attempt to paint…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Summer of Soul/Summer of Struggle…
25 Aug 2021
BAR's poet in residence pays tribute to fallen Black Panther Party comrades. Chalk silhouettes, bullet-violated bodies of Bunchy and John—UCLA, cold Campbell Hall floor—Punctuated January ’69…like a loud Prelude to December’s death squad symphonies: Silencing Chicago songs of spring; Meeting riffs…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sharon Lynette Jones’ “Conversations with Angela Davis”
25 Aug 2021
BAR Book Forum delves into Conversations with Angela Davis. In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Sharon Lynette Jones. Jones is professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University.…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: An Yountae and Eleanor Craig’s “Beyond Man”
25 Aug 2021
"Beyond Man" is an analysis of race, religion, and activism.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Document: Notes of a Prison Collective: Marion Political Collective, 1976
25 Aug 2021
In 1976, prisoners in the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois wrote a collective document explaining the status of the prisoner within the prison—and the role of the prison in society at large.