US Politics

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US China Sanctions Endanger Global Economy
07 Jan 2019
“The ultimate suicide bomber is in Washington, DC,” said Dr Gerald Horne, warning that US moves to weaken China could plunge the capitalist world into depression.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Yes, White People Are Also Killed by the Mass Black Incarceration Regime
03 Jan 2019
The WSWS site has done a disservice to Marxism and to the Black Lives Matter movement with its ideologically driven study of police killings in the U.S., focusing on dead white people.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Warren and the Trap for Black Voters
02 Jan 2019
Whether Democrats are openly obstructionist corporatists like Pelosi, or liberal sounding like Warren, they will not consider any meaningful systemic reforms.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa!
02 Jan 2019
Paul Kagame’s troops most likely shot down a plane carrying two African presidents, igniting genocides that killed millions — but the Rwandan President has never been charged.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World: A Review
02 Jan 2019
The U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
02 Jan 2019
Our Readers reacted to challenges to “niceness” in American society and the history behind Kwanzaa.
Mark P. Fancher
Is Armed Struggle Still The Most Effective Way to Resist Imperialism in Africa?
02 Jan 2019
It is now far more difficult for imperialists to launch direct boots-on-the-ground military attacks on Africa without an explanation.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Traci West’s“Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality and GerShun Avilez’s “Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism”
02 Jan 2019
Our authors reject the contention that Black nationalism was mostly concerned with upholding traditional patriarchy and heterosexuality -- evils that are in fact buttressed by many contemporary “Ch
Solomon Comissiong
Those who Boycott Facebook, Should Also Boycott The Democratic Party
02 Jan 2019
In the spirit of Harriet Tubman, we need to free Black America from the grip of the imperial Democratic Party plantation.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of December 31, 2018
31 Dec 2018
Margaret Kimberley on Russiagate, the scam that will not die; Sara Flounders: Facts be damnned, US war party won't accept defeat in Syria; NYPD "gang raids" a flimsy cover for mass arrests.