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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The September 11 Legacy of Forever Wars, the Patriot Act, and Loss of Legal Rights
13 Sep 2023
On September 11 remember how legal rights were destroyed under the Patriot Act and how plots for worldwide endless war were hatched.
Sara Flounders , Joe Lombardo
RESPONSE TO: Lawrence S. Wittner’s “Spinning Illusions: The Anti-American Left and the Ukraine War” – a new McCarthyism
23 Aug 2023
Recently articles have appeared on the front page of the New York Times that try to smear Code Pink, The People’s Forum and TriContinental as Chinese agents. The Times article was followed by a…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump Indictment Distraction
16 Aug 2023
The latest Donald Trump indictment is no cause for celebration. The oligarchs still rule, the military industrial complex still gets public money, the criminal justice system he now faces is still…
Jacqueline Luqman
RFK, Jr. Exposes His Right-Wing Tendencies Again, This Time On Abortion
16 Aug 2023
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made and then tried to walk-back comments which supported banning abortion in some circumstances. But he's stuck with his own words and the supposedly anti-establishment…
BAR Editors
A Tribute to Glen Ford
02 Aug 2023
"What would Glen Ford say?" That question is one which we often ask ourselves two years after his passing.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
"Booming" Economy Means More Bad Jobs and Faster Race to the Bottom
02 Aug 2023
For the past 30 years, no matter which party has been in power, the US economy has produced more and more “bad” jobs – because the Race to the Bottom is ruling class policy.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Upside of slavery according to Governor Woke Smoke?
02 Aug 2023
“…most slave children were prohibited from learning to read or write…” —James Mellon, Editor of Bullwhip Days
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Censorship of the Black Left
26 Jul 2023
As the empire crumbles, the neoliberal capitalist order run by a corrupt duopoly is working to silence dissent. The Black left, of course, is always the first target.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bipartisol and the ailing body politic
28 Jun 2023
Bipartisol and the ailing body politic
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Could Cornel West Help the Greens Win Ballot Access in 50 States?
21 Jun 2023
Dr. Cornel West is a candidate for the Green Party’s 2024 nomination. I spoke to ballot access expert Richard Winger, who thinks that if he wins, the Greens might qualify for the ballot in all 50…