In this week’s segment, we hear about how the Black mayor of Buffalo, New York targeted Black and Latinx communities to raise revenue with traffic citations which resulted in a civil rights lawsuit challenging the practice. But first, we discuss the recent election in South Africa with a representative of the South African Communist Party. The African National Congress (ANC) lost its parliamentary majority and must now form a coalition government without jeopardizing its history of fighting for the liberation of African people.
U.S. funding for a study on the timing of hepatitis B vaccine doses in infants in Guinea-Bissau violates accepted standards of medical ethics.
Donald Trump and other U.S. presidents are gangsters who will sometimes steal from their own crew. The Greenland heist is but the latest example, as the Denmark colonizers cry that they were robbed…
The state is not drifting toward repression; it is building it with serious intent. ICE raids, militarized police, and mass surveillance are the tools of a system designed to manage and silence…
“From journalists…the greatest need of the moment is sound analysis of the U.S. empire and the focusing of the news spotlight on its far-flung sinister operations.”
"Operation Piracy or Pedophile Protection, mates?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
