Black Mothers Dying in US - Glen Ford , BAR executive editor bit.ly/2Vvbpxl Only a social and economic transformation can lift Black America to a First World state of well-being. Black health requires Black Power.

Angela Davis Denounces Attacks on Afro-Colombian Social Movements by Angela Y. Davis bit.ly/2HptTpp Afro-Colombians face repression and outright violence as a consequence of their struggle to defend their territory, protect the environment, and combat racism.

Hijacking the Congolese People’s Victory by Kambale Musavuli bit.ly/2HcxbvV #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.

Joe Biden Wants Us to Forget His Past. We Won't by Adolph Reed & Cornel West bit.ly/2Hfzgae 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.

Extinction Rebellion Training, Or How To Control Radical Resistance From the "Obstructive" Left Cory Morningstar @Wrong KInd Of Green bit.ly/2HaFAjw Extinction Rebellion is a corporate front, devised to take the place of real resistance to capitalist ecocide.

Black Caucus Blasted for Turning Its Back on Rep. Omar  by Glen Ford bit.ly/2H9RxpA It’s been more than a generation since the #CongressionalBlackCaucus stood up for Black people, or progressive political principles, anywhere. #BlackMisleadershipClass

BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 2) Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora bit.ly/2HaXxhT It is crucial to bring a feminist and critical race perspective to bear on notions of technological development.

BAR Book Forum: Lilian Calles Barger’s “The World Come of Age” Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor bit.ly/2HfsoK4 Any Christian theology worth holding has to be engaged with the need for the liberation of the oppressed.

Letters from Our Readers  by Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor bit.ly/2HihXpo 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.

Assange Is Not a Journalist (If Journalists Are Ass-Kissing Propagandists for the Ruling Class) -by Ann Garrison bit.ly/2HbO1Lj 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.

Venezuelan Embassy in DC Under Siege by Guaido’s Racist Mob Lauren Smith bit.ly/2HaP7XQ 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.

Joe Biden Personifies a New “End of History,” This time for U.S. Imperial Rule by Danny Haiphong bit.ly/2HcjME2 Biden’s open support of corporate oligarchy and disdain for Black America won him the hearts and minds of the ruling class.

Regime Change Coming Home? By Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence bit.ly/2H8Q9DG Limbo! How low can we go— Barr is set so low in its swamp draining elephantine donkey dung...

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The Bankers’ “Power Revolution” -- How the Government Got Shackled by Debt by Ellen Brown bit.ly/2WR9hjq 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.

Book Review: Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day by Carl Davidson bit.ly/2WQLoZ7 Flint Taylor’s new book reveals Chicago as a racist police state where the entire criminal justice system was complicit in torture.

Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives by Glen Ford bit.ly/2QUSEy4 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.

On class in Black politics. By Cedric Johnson & This Is Hell bit.ly/2WR55Ac 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

Freedom Rider: How to Protest Trump by Margaret Kimberley bit.ly/2WZzQTP 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.