US Politics

Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Women’s March on the Pentagon to Confront the Bipartisan War Machine? An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
24 Jan 2018
“Since the Dems took control of the House in 2007, the antiwar movement has been pitiful.”
Ken Morgan
Revisiting Black Nationalism and the National Question
24 Jan 2018
“Economic disparities, police brutality, inequalities et al. go together with capitalism.”
Jemima Pierre
Haitian Detainees are Captive Capital for Private Prison Corporation
24 Jan 2018
“When they cannot make more money out of us, then they deport us quickly.”
Alan Wald
Race and the Logic of Capital
24 Jan 2018
“Solidarity is built less by rhetoric than by “first showing up.”
Angola 3 News
Will California’s Governor Block Parole for Soledad Brother John Clutchette?
24 Jan 2018
“The law has been used to perpetuate an injustice in Mr. Clutchette’s case.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Margaret Kimberley: The So-Called Resistance Isn't Resisting the State of Permanent War
23 Jan 2018
The US state of permanent war threatens the health, housing, education and quality of life of all Americans, and the literal lives of millions overseas.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
US Supreme Court About To Pass A 21st Century Dred Scott Decision
18 Jan 2018
Back in 1857 the US Supreme Court, in response to the lawsuit of one Dred Scott, a slave suing for his freedom, ruled that nobody of African descent had any legal right under the US Constitution th
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Black Caucus’ “New Class”: Worthless, Warmongering Servants of Empire
18 Jan 2018
“The Democrats have perverted the electoral franchise of the nation’s most progressive constituency to the service of a global war machine and an all-pervasive national security state.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Full Spectrum Arrogance: US Bases Spanning the Globe
17 Jan 2018
“There are 50,000 troops still in Germany, still winning World War II three quarters of a century later.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Oligarch Jeff Bezos
17 Jan 2018
“Republicans and Democrats alike are willing to turn over government coffers to Bezos and his ilk and the rights of the people be damned.”