US Politics

Erica Caines
The Makings of A Capitalist Dystopia
06 May 2020
Colonized people, with a horrific historical connection to both science and medicine in this country, must examine science in service of the state.
Sarah Lustbader
US Prisons Are Vectors of Disease
06 May 2020
The penal system remains a source of diseases that spread among prisoners at rates far exceeding those in the communities from which they came.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd’s “Break Every Yoke”
06 May 2020
The necessary political demand is not that we make better, more humane prisons and jails, but that we abolish prisons and jails altogether.
Marisa Fuentes
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
06 May 2020
This is a book about the ideological construction of black women as “non-human” and exploitable for capitalist profit in the making of the New South.
Lauren Smith
Fighting the Invisible Enemy: Imperial Fascism 2020, Not Covid-19
06 May 2020
What could possibly be a more effective way to seal borders, discourage protest, and position the United States into perfect alignment for WWIII?
Wilmer J. Leon III
COVID-19 and America - The Fire This Time
06 May 2020
It is immoral if not criminal for the US to increase sanctions through its “maximum pressure campaigns” against Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and Palestine.
Igor Derysh
Over 70 Percent of Jobless Americans Didn’t Receive March Unemployment Benefits
06 May 2020
The problem is even worse in Southeastern states like Florida, where fewer than 8% of applicants received benefits.
Milton G. Allimadi
Tribute to My Beloved Sister Barbara Allimadi – Fighter for Justice in Uganda
06 May 2020
We owe it to Barbara to march those extra miles and create a new Uganda. “She was arrested multiple times for leading protests against the regime.”
Peter Young
Overcrowded DRC Prisons 'Ticking Time-Bomb' for COVID-19 Pandemic
06 May 2020
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s main prisons are filled at 432 percent on average, making them some of the most overcrowded in the world.
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Venezuela Thwarts Invasion Attempt by Mercenaries
06 May 2020
Venezuelan officials reported that a group of mercenaries attempted to invade the country on Sunday but were stopped by the country’s army and police.