Media And Culture

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Internet Does Washington’s Dirty Work
22 Jan 2020
As long as the internet is in private hands it should be seen as a “frenemy” -- a useful resource that can also be wielded as a weapon.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
No, he did-ant—call her Pocahontas—did he?!
22 Jan 2020
"I’m a capitalist to my bones…” - Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA No, the dumb Don did-ant call Hocus-Pocus, “Pocahontas—“ did he?!
Eric Mann
Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition
22 Jan 2020
Dr. King brought a powerful and frontal indictment of the system of white supremacist, racist, capitalism.
David Swanson
Forty-Five Felons With Their Own Holiday: The U.S. Presidency
22 Jan 2020
Margaret Kimberley’s new book on US presidents and Black people shows why the executive mansion is called the “White” House.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Margaret Kimberley’s “Prejudential”
22 Jan 2020
The history of enslavement and American apartheid segregation has permanently disfigured politics in this country.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aydogan Kars’ “Unsaying God“
22 Jan 2020
Islam’s association in the West with “terror” makes it nearly impossible Islamic theology as a force for racial or social justice.
Michelle Alexander
The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an "Aberration"
22 Jan 2020
Yes, Trump is an inveterate liar, but American politicians have always told lies about the Black and brown people they demonize and mass-imprison.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
Trump Prosecutors Make Move to Ensure that Embassy Protectors are Convicted
15 Jan 2020
Trump’s prosecutors are trying to suppress the facts of the US attempted coup in Venezuela, and railroad the Embassy Protectors to prison.
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
The World Must End Washington’s Illegal Economic War
15 Jan 2020
The US is currently attacking one-third of the planet’s population with 8,000 economic sanctions, ongoing acts of war against 39 nations.
Stansfield Smith
The Coup in Bolivia: Lessons for our Movement
15 Jan 2020
The ruling class has the capacity to manufacture and implement a coup or a domestic wave of political repression almost off-the-shelf.