Media And Culture

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.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Iran and the Need for Black Activism
08 Jan 2020
Black Americans, as perpetual targets of US lies and attacks, should be the first to reject Washington’s rationales for war with Iran.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
Sheep-Dogging on Steroids: The New Democratic Party Anti-War Activists
08 Jan 2020
The rhetoric of the Democratic “progressives” only gives cover to the ongoing criminality of the U.S. state and its commitment to permanent war – with congressional approval.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
John Kerry Did It
08 Jan 2020
The “it” being: put Republicans in power by allowing George Bush to steal the presidency for the second time, in 2004, with no assistance from Russians, Wikileaks or Jill Stein.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
In the Year Ahead, Both Perils and Prospects Exist for the American Left
08 Jan 2020
There may be two political parties in the United States, but there is only one ruling class agenda.