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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…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures
17 Nov 2021
For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history -- a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that can usher in epochal change. COP 26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Climate Action Pretense at COP26
17 Nov 2021
Joe Biden’s presence at COP26 was a photo opportunity giving the impression that he is fighting the climate crisis. But the U.S. and other governments continue carbon production while pretending to take action and ignore the needs of the Global South who suffer at the hands of the rich nations…