Tulsi Gabbard is a #Sheepdog; Greens' Howie Hawkins is 2020's Only Peace Candidate
by Bruce A. Dixon
https://t.co/gUQr47DmbP
Gabbard uses peace rhetoric to chase us back into the war party. Howie Hawkins is building a permanent party to fight 4 justice at home and peace abroad.
Freedom Rider: How to Protest Trump
by Margaret Kimberley
https://t.co/6p88F7WzZ2
If the British really oppose Trump’s policies they should dump their own government, which backs Washington to the hilt – and then they should apologize to the world for Britain’s crimes.
On class in Black politics.
By Cedric Johnson & This Is Hell
https://t.co/FPNCbJpvpY
Johnson examines class in Black political life limits of electoralism and solely race-driven analyses vs the power of a Marxist materialist lens in understanding power dynamics iof capitalism
Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives
by Glen Ford
https://t.co/RwfARd1wLV
Alicia Garza and her crew conducted what they claim is the biggest survey of Black political opinion ever -- but failed to ask a single question about foreign policy.
Book Review: Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day
by Carl Davidson
https://t.co/n85Lu5LtIG
Flint Taylor’s new book reveals Chicago as a racist police state where the entire criminal justice system was complicit in torture.
The Bankers’ “Power Revolution” -- How the Government Got Shackled by Debt
by Ellen Brown
https://t.co/X3NGBCK5tV
Enshrined by law and custom, bondholder debt repaid by taxpayers is a naked transfer of wealth from the poor and workers to the super-rich.
Regime Change Coming Home?
By Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
https://t.co/63fyqie0sV
Limbo! How low can we go—
Barr is set so low in its
swamp draining elephantine donkey dung...
Joe Biden Personifies a New “End of History,” This time for U.S. Imperial Rule
by Danny Haiphong
https://t.co/N7PqI7uh5C
Biden’s open support of corporate oligarchy and disdain for Black America won him the hearts and minds of the ruling class.
Venezuelan Embassy in DC Under Siege by Guaido’s Racist Mob
Lauren Smith
https://t.co/42m9Sjoj6f
Emboldened by Trump’s aggressions against #Venezuela, fascist followers of Juan Guaido have threatened and assaulted US activists while US cops and Secret Service agents do nothing.
Assange Is Not a Journalist (If Journalists Are Ass-Kissing Propagandists for the Ruling Class)
-by Ann Garrison
https://t.co/CqR5WKDtVc
Saying Assange not a journalist is like saying Darwin wasn’t a biologist, Einstein wasn’t a physicist and LeBron James can’t play basketball.
Letters from Our Readers
by Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
https://t.co/SIRWnAz7z8
This week saw some interesting letters, as readers discussed black support for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party establishment’s relationship to Black people, and more.
BAR Book Forum: Lilian Calles Barger’s “The World Come of Age”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
https://t.co/OJmKDl3b0b
Any Christian theology worth holding has to be engaged with the need for the liberation of the oppressed.
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 2)
Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora
https://t.co/VJN30rmDSY
It is crucial to bring a feminist and critical race perspective to bear on notions of technological development.
Black Caucus Blasted for Turning Its Back on Rep. Omar
by Glen Ford
https://t.co/Wz0uipbaUQ
It’s been more than a generation since the #CongressionalBlackCaucus stood up for Black people, or progressive political principles, anywhere. #BlackMisleadershipClass
Extinction Rebellion Training, Or How To Control Radical Resistance From the "Obstructive" Left
Cory Morningstar @Wrong KInd Of Green
https://t.co/N9EamISicm
Extinction Rebellion is a corporate front, devised to take the place of real resistance to capitalist ecocide.
Joe Biden Wants Us to Forget His Past. We Won't
by Adolph Reed & Cornel West
https://t.co/LNUGf89DNg
Joe Biden is the purest example of the corporate Democrats that turned the party decisively towards war, austerity and race-baiting in a previous elections.
Hijacking the Congolese People’s Victory
by Kambale Musavuli
https://t.co/l4AwEJY6aT
#Congo President Kabila is finally out. Sort of. Before leaving ensured that the most pliable and least threatening opposition figure, Félix Tshisekedi, would be designated president.
Angela Davis Denounces Attacks on Afro-Colombian Social Movements
by Angela Y. Davis
https://t.co/MWty6LrDkH
Afro-Colombians face repression and outright violence as a consequence of their struggle to defend their territory, protect the environment, and combat racism.
Black Mothers Dying in US
- Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
https://t.co/ZJf0LvlszZ
Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power.