US Politics

Richard Moser
Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
30 Jan 2018
“When the bubble bursts we will need a network of worker cooperatives and people’s assemblies to sustain us.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 29, 2016
30 Jan 2018
Phil Wilayto of the Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases Greg Leroy of Good Jobs First on the race to see which city and state can give the most to Amazon
Nellie Bailiey and Glen Ford
U.S. Attempts to Strangle Russia with NATO
29 Jan 2018
Since 1949, the United States has been using NATO to militarily encircle and Russia, said Phil Wilayto, editor of the Virginia Defender and a participant in the national conference
Nellie Bailiey and Glen Ford
Former “Soledad Brother” Fights for Parole
29 Jan 2018
Students at Southern University Law Center (SULC) have asked the UN Human Rights Commission to intervene in the case of John Clutchette, the former “Soledad Brother” who was charged, along with Geo
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Baltimore Cops Worse Than Thirties Gangsters
29 Jan 2018
The Baltimore police officers charged with robbing and planting guns and drugs on citizens are “worse than gangsters back in the Thirties, because it’s the law doing it,” said Carl Dix
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Beware of Amazon Bearing Corporate Gifts
29 Jan 2018
Greg LeRoy, of Good Jobs First, warns the remaining 20 cities bidding to become Amazon’s second headquarters not to believe the corporation’s promises of $5 billion in investments
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging, Part 1 of 3
25 Jan 2018
The US left has a fundamental problem, perhaps the root of most of its other problems.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
DACA Joins the Mad Rush to War
25 Jan 2018
“Measured in military dollars, the Democratic leadership is more warlike than the Trump administration.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Robert Mercer Rules
24 Jan 2018
“An ultra-rich right winger put Trump in the White House and now controls the country’s political agenda.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Centrist Politics Are Ruling Class Politics, not Martin Luther King’s
24 Jan 2018
“Democrats have been a reliable source of fake progressivism and real imperial policy.”