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Josmar Trujillo
The Thin Blue Lies Behind Crime Wave Hype
01 Jul 2021
Data fail to show that bail restrictions or any other reform fueled the spike in violence during the pandemic – but facts don’t matter to the corporate press “Newspapers supported police tactics like “broken windows”—a crackdown on minor offenses in poor communities, no matter the costs on…
BAP and HOA PALS
Western Powers Only Seek to Curtail the Right of Self-Determination for the Horn of Africa and Global South States.
01 Jul 2021
Western powers only seek to curtail the right of self-determination for the Horn of Africa and Global South states. Don’t Allow Another U.S.-NATO Libya in the Horn of Africa BAP and HOA PALS “We unequivocally support and uplift mutual cooperation, solidarity, and peace among all parties and…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Twerkers of the World you might…(Or when they go low we get high?)
01 Jul 2021
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx Bleach barker, low-Barr, last days of Pompeo—of Decaying empire; of paper towel-tossing, pussy- grabbing presidents… An a couple of big black booties—a couple of pumping rumps are atop an Ambulance as it attempts to…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Cover-up of a Cover-up: US Media Ignore OPCW Fraud to Justify Missile Strikes on Syria
01 Jul 2021
Aaron Maté tells Ann Garrison that US media helps the OPCW cover up its cover-up for the US, UK, and France. The inspectors’ superiors tried to write a bogus version of their report, falsely suggesting that Syria was guilty.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Internal Security Act of 1950
01 Jul 2021
The terms of the McCarran Act strategy offer a wide catchment that has the potential to ensnare any progressive or radical movement. “All those who have even mild criticisms of the US government can— and will—be caught up within the anti-terrorist dragnet.”
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Message to the Peace Movement: A Summary of the New Cold War on China
01 Jul 2021
The New Cold War is a tech war, a propaganda war, an economic war, and a war to maintain US political and economic supremacy. “Racism is an essential in component of the New Cold War on China.” The following is a revised transcript of a monologue by the author published on The Left Lens …
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Terrible Origins of July 4th
01 Jul 2021
The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.” “White settlers were in a constant state of fear of slave revolts.” “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our…
Nodrada
Decolonization and Communism
08 Jul 2021
Under settler colonialism, the colonizers seek primarily to eliminate the indigenous population rather than exploit them. The continuity of belonging to a certain ‘mode of life’ and community is key to indigeneity.” “We have to give life to Indo-American socialism with our own reality, in our…
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Venezuela Immunizes Its Population Against COVID-19 with Cuban Vaccine
08 Jul 2021
Venezuela signed an agreement with Cuba for the purchase of 12 million doses of Abdal after the country announced and celebrated the success of its locally developed anti-COVID-19 vaccine. “Both Cuba and Venezuela have announced to vaccinate their entire population of over 11 million and 28…
Aaron Kamugisha
The Responsibilities of Caribbean Intellectuals
08 Jul 2021
Caribbean thought gives us more conscious control over ideas in the pursuit of human freedom. “The unity of Caribbean people does not require the tomes of the economist or the technocracy of the public official -- it is the lived reality.” The tradition of Caribbean intelligentsia insists on a…