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Rishika Pardikar
Behind the Scenes at COP26: Developing Countries Fume Over U.S. Pressure to Alter Climate Finance Terms
17 Nov 2021
Rich capitalist nations use a variety of means to escape paying compensation to the Global South for climate change damage. The outcome at COP26 was no different in this regard. This article originally appeared in Toward Freedom.
Monthly Review Online
COP26 Was a Failure But the People's Alternative Can Still Be a Success
17 Nov 2021
COP26 ended the way climate summits always do, with promises for change from countries which have every intention of keeping the status quo. The only possibility for change lies with peoples mass movements. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review Online. Has COP26, which has wound up in…
Roger D. Harris
Nicaragua Has a Public Relations Problem, Not a Democracy Problem
17 Nov 2021
Nicaragua's recent elections were conducted with transparency and freedom of choice for voters. The only problem is with the United States and its determination to undo the will of Nicaraguans and overthrow the government they elected. U.S. corporate media act as governmental spokespeople and…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Industrial Nations Value Capitalism Over People at Global Climate Conference
17 Nov 2021
Inaction on the climate crisis is to be expected when capital is valued more than humanity.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
F.W. de Klerk: Requiem for a Racist Murderer
17 Nov 2021
F.W. de Klerk was the last apartheid president of South Africa. But remnants of that system remain, and the struggle continues to completely erase the legacy of apartheid criminality. Frederik “F.W.” de Klerk, the white supremacist, mass murderer and apartheid’s last president died in South Africa…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Officer Prodigy
17 Nov 2021
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Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Censorship is the Last Gasp of the Liberal Class
17 Nov 2021
It is the liberal class which is determined to censor as much of public discourse as possible. They collude with big technology social media companies to determine what will and will not be seen and heard. In so doing they narrow the issues and positions which the public are able to…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Camisha Russell’s “The Assisted Reproduction of Race”
17 Nov 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Camisha Russell. Russell is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Oregon. Her book is The Assisted Reproduction of Race.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: Genocide: The Social Lynching of Africans and their descendants in Brazil, Abdias do Nascimento
17 Nov 2021
The late Brazilian intellectual, artist, and activist Abdias do Nascimento argues that racial democracy is premised on an idea of racial mixing that not only valorizes whiteness, but is predicated on the dilution and disappearance of the African race -- on an annihilationist practice of “genocide.”
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
A Dirty Occupation: The UN’s Criminal Enterprise and Ecological Catastrophe in Haiti
17 Nov 2021
What are the environmental and ecological impacts of large-scale military occupations by the United Nations “peacekeeping” missions? The deadly cholera epidemic unleashed on the Haitian people by UN soldiers is an extension of a totality of violence - material, political, and ecological – enacted…