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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why the U.S. Still Suffers from Covid
01 Sep 2021
The Covid-19 crisis cannot be separated from the failed state. Donald Trump was the convenient scapegoat for the first year of the Covid-19 crisis. Austerity, low wage work, housing insecurity, and the profit driven health care system were problematic issues before anyone heard the word Covid-19 or…
Frances Madeson
Louisiana Activists Mobilize to Prevent “Shock Doctrine” Policies in Wake of Ida
07 Sep 2021
(This article originally appeared in Truthout.)
Pavan Kulkarni
First National Congress of Socialist Movement of Ghana Charts a New Course for the Region
08 Sep 2021
The First National Congress of the Socialist Movement of Ghana (SMG) – previously the Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) – was held from July 30 to August 1 in Winneba, a town in the country’s Central Region. One-hundred thirty delegates from across Ghana and 27 observers from fraternal…
Marwan Bishara
The African Union, Israel and the Futility of Appeasement
08 Sep 2021
The AU should be leading the fight against racism, not cozying up to racist regimes. For decades, African countries have supported the Palestinian liberation struggle against Israel, seeing in it parallels with their own anti-colonial movements. Likewise, the African Union has not hesitated to…
Netfa Freeman
Guinea and the Military Coup Incubator, AFRICOM
08 Sep 2021
The recent coup in Guinea exemplifies the damage done by European colonizers and the U.S. Africa Command.
Michael Steven Smith
My Friend Michael Ratner
08 Sep 2021
The following is a talk that Michael Steven Smith gave on July 27, 2021 at a book party in New York City’s Lower East Side sponsored by the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild to celebrate the publication of Michael Ratner‘s memoir, “Moving the Bar: My Life as a Radical Lawyer…
Richard Medhurst and Roberto Sirvent
U.S. Corporate Media Watch
08 Sep 2021
Richard and Roberto would like to dedicate this feature to Glen Ford, one of the fiercest critics of U.S. corporate media the country has ever known. May we all find creative and courageous ways to honor his memory by speaking out against Wall Street, white supremacy, and the U.S. war machine. ***…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Erica R. Edwards’ “The Other Side of Terror”
08 Sep 2021
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Erica R. Edwards. Edwards is Associate Professor of English and Presidential Term Chair in African American Literature at Rutgers University. Her book is The Other Side of Terror:…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bird, strings, Big Chief: 100: Harlem (For Charlie Parker/Donald Harrison/Harlem Symphony Orchestra)
08 Sep 2021
Bird, strings, Big Chief: 100: Harlem (For Charlie Parker/Donald Harrison/Harlem Symphony Orchestra) Gathering witnesses bearing beautiful collisions— Kansas City, New Orleans, Harlem—in Harlem. Only Harlem fetes YardBird in Marcus Garvey Park. Only Harlem has Big Easy Chief of Congo Nation…
Patrick D. Anderson
The Theory of Intersectionality Emerges out of Racist, Colonialist Ideology, Not Radical Politics—Rethinking the CRT Debate Part 3
08 Sep 2021
Recent debates about Critical Race Theory (CRT) have been abysmally uninformed at best and utterly inaccurate at worst. From corporate media and right-wing rags to independent left media, almost everyone has misrepresented or misunderstood the origins, histories, and theories of what is today known…