US Politics

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
10 Apr 2019
This week readers discussed Tulsi Gabbard’s relationship with the Democratic Party and the New York Times coverage of Africa. Letters came for
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sylvanna Falcón’s “Power Interrupted”
10 Apr 2019
A small group of committed antiracist feminist activists changed the global discourse about racism and antiracism.
Rob Smith
Julian Assange Threatened With Expulsion from Embassy
10 Apr 2019
Ecuador’s president appears to be using Assange as a bargaining chip for debt relief.
Todd Steven Burroughs
Newark’s Black-Powered Engineer: Kenneth Gibson (1932-2019)
10 Apr 2019
The still-chocolate city bids farewell to its first Black mayor.
Rafael Stedile
Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party launched in South Africa
10 Apr 2019
Over a thousand gathered in Johannesburg to attend the Launch Congress of the party which seeks to build socialism in South Africa
Joan P. Gibbs and Rosemari Mealy
An open letter to the Congressional Black Caucus on the US’s attacks on Venezuela and Cuba
10 Apr 2019
Washington’s generations-long blockade and aggressions against Cuba have now been extended to Venezuela, all in violation of international law.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth
10 Apr 2019
Mass Black incarceration didn’t just happen; it was engineered at the highest levels of US government.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
West Being Eclipsed By Hi-Tech East
09 Apr 2019
Although Russiagate has fizzled, US imperialism has entered a new level of instability, unable to compete with the rising powers of the East and facing a crisis of legitimacy at home, said
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies
04 Apr 2019
The U.S. has nothing to offer Africa but guns, drones and an extended half-life for the neocolonial order.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Tulsi Gabbard Is A Sheepdog, Greens Howie Hawkins Is 2020's Only Real Peace Candidate
04 Apr 2019
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