US Politics

Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Pennsylvania Funds Prison Repression, But Not Health Care
17 Sep 2018
Although a statewide lockdown is officially over, prisoner mail and visitation will be hugely disrupted for the next 90 days, said Johanna Fernandez, of the Campaign to Bring Mumia
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Spike Lee Movie Whitewashes Police Repression of Blacks
17 Sep 2018
Robin DG Kelly, the author and essayist, agrees with Boots Riley’s critique of BlacKkKlansman, the Spike Lee movie whose hero is a Black cop who spies on Black activists.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Trump Wants to Tax Protests in DC
17 Sep 2018
The public has until mid-October to comment on Trump administration plans to charge protesters in the nation’s capitol, said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, of the Partnership for Civil J
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Two Thirds of "Progressive" Democratic Congressional Candidates Completely Silent on Foreign Policy
13 Sep 2018
We’re told there’s a blue wave coming in November that may sweep a Democratic majority into the House of Representa
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
9/11 Legacy: Two Contending Fascisms
12 Sep 2018
Two fascisms compete for popular support in the US. One is blatantly racist, the other offers a devil’s bargain that demands Black people accept austerity and war. Both must be fought.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Ocasio-Cortez’s Tweet to McCain means she IS a Democrat and ISN’T a Socialist
12 Sep 2018
It should be all too clear by now that the “Resistance” to Donald Trump within the US power structure is just a public relations stunt to sow popular consensus for war.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
First They Came for Alex Jones, then RT and Syrian TV
12 Sep 2018
Russian and Syrian news services in the US have been censored, but you can still get streaming jihadist propaganda from al Qaeda-controlled Idlib Province.
Max Blumenthal
Censored Documentary Exposes Israel’s Attack on Black Lives Matter
12 Sep 2018
Israeli operatives and their US lobbyists sprang into action when the Movement for Black Lives came out in support of the boycott Israel movement.
Paul Buhle
New Film Reveals Life of Civil Rights Activist Jack O’Dell
12 Sep 2018
Nobody was a bigger influence on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. than Jack O’Dell, the communist -- which is why O’Dell had to be jettisoned.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeanne Theoharis’ “A More Beautiful and Terrible History”
12 Sep 2018
Today’s seekers of social justice need to grapple with what the legacies of past freedom fighters actually demand of us.”