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Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
The 700,000 Club: Joe Biden’s Deportation Frenzy
19 Jan 2022
In under a year, the Biden regime has detained and deported more asylum seekers than his predecessor, demonstrating that there is an alignment among the US political elites – of both parties – when it comes to creating and enforcing racist, inhumane laws.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Waiting for a Schmo: Theater of the Absurd!
19 Jan 2022
Waiting for a Schmo: Theater of the Absurd! Waiting for a Schmo Munchkin—or the other— is Theater of the Absurd! Myth of Boer swineherd of coal, gas, oilbird…Absurd! Who’s Afraid of West Virginia Wolf in a Brooks Brothers suit thickening a thin plot: Millions dying?
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Biden-Harris Administration is a Political Expression of the Empire’s Crisis of Legitimacy
19 Jan 2022
The crisis of legitimacy is becoming more and more obvious. Joe Biden exemplifies oligarchic rule and a system in decline.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., All Labor Has Dignity, March 18, 1968
19 Jan 2022
Martin Luther King was assassinated when he supported Black workers on strike in Memphis, Tennessee. Weeks earlier he spoke of the need for systemic change that would treat all workers with dignity and fairness.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
On the Biden Plantation
19 Jan 2022
The idea that Joe Biden would provide harm reduction was created to help the unpopular candidate secure an electoral victory. The reality is a litany of lies and certain defeat for democrats at the polls. There is no harm reduction in a system dedicated to neo-liberalism and austerity. “Biden came…
Michael Sainato
Corporations are Making Millions of Dollars From U.S. Prison Labor
25 Jan 2022
A Freedom of Information Act request shines a light on how much private corporations and government agencies have been exploiting prison labor during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article was originally published in The Real News.
Kim Ives
Key Suspects Arrested in Jovenel Moise Assassination Plot
25 Jan 2022
More arrests have been made in the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. Suspects have connections with Haitian oligarchs who control the country with the blessing of the U.S. Those corrupt relationships are the cause of Haiti's problems. This article was originally published in Haiti…
Mary Uyematsu Kao
Legacy of a Black Revolutionary: Black Agenda Report (BAR)
26 Jan 2022
Glen Ford's legacy is recognized all over the nation. Japanese- American newspaper Rafu Shimpo printed this tribute to his work.
Daniel Melo
Democrats and Trading People for Political Power
26 Jan 2022
Electoral politics in this country is a cover for oligarchic rule. Democratic party victories provide very little material benefit for the people they depend upon for support.
Roger D. Harris
Seven Myths about the January 6th Capitol Building Incident
26 Jan 2022
The events of January 6, 2021 at the Capitol have been discussed and written about endlessly, but without much useful analysis. The democrats have used Trump supporters' actions to their political advantage, obscuring betrayals of their own voters. After over a year of incessant publicity, the…