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Western climate agenda goes against African development
This commentary provides an overview of carbon and biodiversity offsets as an expansion of global capitalism under the western environmental agenda marshalled against development in Africa.
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“What Is Anti-Racism? And Why It Means Anti-Capitalism,” A book review
Arun Kundnani details the histories of liberal and radical anti-racism and argues that anti-racism ultimately means anti-capitalism.
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Racist asylum and immigration policy in the U.S. and Canada
Fears of an “invasion” at the border are nothing more than white supremacy being openly expressed. It could not be otherwise in a settler colony created by migration from Europe. To millions of people the word American still refers to whites only.
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People(s)-Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition
The West’s fiction of “human rights” has been weaponized by neoliberals to rationalize naked imperialist interventions. But if human rights are to have any relevance for the oppressed, they must be “de-colonized” and given meaning by the oppressed themselves: a People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR).
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SPEECH: A Challenge to Artists, Lorraine Hansberry, 1962
At a rally against the House Un-American Activities Committee, insurgent playwright Lorrainne Hansberry called on artists to shake off the fear and incoherency of the world to defend the peoples’ rights.
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Phony Fani Willis, misguided support, and the Atlanta Plantation
Public reaction to the Fani Willis soap opera is an example of how cynical Black misleadership creates confusion among the masses.
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Black Liberation and Anti-Imperialism: An interview with Austin Cole
Book Forum Editor, Roberto Sirvent, interviews Austin Cole about his community organizing work and political writing.
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“Democracies” deny the popular will while suppressing protest and dissent
The nations that brag the most about “democracy” routinely ignore the will of their people. Support for Israel’s war crimes in Gaza is but one example of this phenomenon.
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U.S. ramps up war crimes after ICJ rules against Israel
The Biden administration colluded with Israel to slander the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine in anticipation of the ICJ ruling against Israel on the charge of genocide. Washington is attempting to cover up genocide by committing the war crime of collective punishment against the people of Gaza.
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“Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives”
Siddarth Kara’s book exposes the exploitation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Sekou Odinga has joined the ancestors but the spirit of the Black Liberation Army and African Resistance lives on!
A commemoration of the life of comrade Sekou Odinga, a lifelong New African revolutionary, former political prisoner, and unstoppable force in the Black liberation movement.
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Ban the war criminals from King Day celebrations
Most Martin Luther King birthday celebrations are tawdry displays of political cynicism and cooptation. The people must recapture the day from war criminals and their Black misleadership puppets.
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When genocide is no longer genocide
Some of Israel’s defenders want to do away with the concept of genocide in hopes of washing away its war crimes. Any redefinition would allow the U.S. to disappear the many genocides it has committed domestically and internationally.
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Black People won’t be silenced about Israel
It is a bad sign when the leader of the United States Senate sounds something like an actress with bizarre feelings of entitlement.
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The end of American Thanksgivings: A cause for Universal rejoicing
Humanity cannot tolerate a 21st Century superpower, much of whose population perceives the world through the eyes of 17th Century land and flesh bandits.
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The issue is not racism but the Pan European White Supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy!
Racism should not be thought of as a matter of personal feeling or opinion, but of an exploitative system that is hundreds of years old.
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The demand for a ceasefire is necessary but not sufficient: The demand must be for decolonization and Palestinian self-determination
The people of Gaza are in desperate need of a cease fire, but ultimately they need decolonization and self-determination.
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BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”
This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is ‘Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.’
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If the U.S. told Rwanda and Uganda to get out of Congo, the War would end
The European Union has sanctioned five members of different armed groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the spokesman for the M23 militia. It did not, however, sanction Rwanda, Uganda or the Rwandan and Ugandan presidents, despite decades of UN Group of Experts reports that the militias operating in the eastern DRC are largely Rwandan and Ugandan, though they typically claim to be Congolese.
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Israel declares most of humanity illegitimate and irrelevant
After 120 members of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Israel demonstrated its increasing isolation by declaring the UN illegitimate and irrelevant.