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The US “Left” Has Repositioned Itself on the “Right” – Aligned with Capital, War and Repression
08 Jul 2021
The most dangerous component of ‘MSM’ fake news is arguably propaganda by omission. “The public cannot make informed decisions, and take appropriate action, when the crimes of ruling elites are kept hidden by a complicit media.” "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little…
Karen Cook Bell
Escape as Resistance for Enslaved Women During the American Revolution
08 Jul 2021
Motherhood often served as a catalyst for attempted escape during the American Revolution. “Enslaved women had as much incentive to run away as did men, and perhaps even more since they were abused physically, sexually, and psychologically.”
Peter Kelley
Historian Michael Honey Recalls Martin Luther King’s Message of Economic Justice In New Book, “To The Promised Land”
08 Jul 2021
King said the best anti-poverty program is a union, where you can fight for your own agenda — somebody doesn’t have to hand it to you. “King was talking about it being 100 years since emancipation in 1963, yet millions of African Americans still lived on a lonely island of poverty in the sea of an…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adam Elliott-Cooper’s “Black Resistance to British Policing”
08 Jul 2021
Historically, most of Britain’s policing hasn’t taken place on the British mainland – it has taken place in its colonies. “Racial governance has been fundamental to British policing for centuries.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jennifer Goett’s Book, “Black Autonomy”
08 Jul 2021
The author examines postwar violence through the activism of Afro-Nicaraguan women and men from the Caribbean coast of the country. “Gendered Black practices are sites of oppositional consciousness that drives resistance to the state and racial capitalism.”
by the Socialist Movement of Ghana’s Research Group
Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Union
08 Jul 2021
Neither the Organization of African Unity nor the African Union have been able to realize the two most important principles of pan-Africanism: political unity and territorial sovereignty. “Thes images are visual testaments to the continued ‘fragmentation and subordination of the continent’s…
Tamar Sarai Davis
Organizers Are Calling on Congress to Close Loophole That Enables Prison Slavery
08 Jul 2021
The ‘slavery clause’ made the passage of restrictions targeting Black people like the Black Codes possible as well as convict leasing of the late 19th century. “Prison labor also fails to provide jobs that can translate into careers upon release.”
Gary Peller
Critical Race Theory Opponents Are Just Proving Our Point For Us
08 Jul 2021
Conservative activists have branded all race reform efforts in education and employment as CRT. “Liberal categories of reason and neutrality might bear the marks of history and struggle, including racial and other forms of social power.” A parents’ group in Washoe County, Nevada wants teachers to…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
A known known…
08 Jul 2021
“…there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns—things we do not know we know…” -- an infamous War Criminal We know “extraordinary rendition” wasn’t Gladys and Marvin dropping smash hit versions of “Grapevine” the same year… We know “…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopian Conflict and International Law
08 Jul 2021
Legal scholar Francis A. Boyle told Ann Garrison that a “Responsibility-to-Protect” intervention in Ethiopia would be illegal and catastrophic. “The NATO nations, and especially the US are hostile to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the government of Ethiopia.” Ann Garrison: Francis Boyle,…