US Politics

Ryan Singel
The FCC is Delivering the Internet to Corporate Control
06 Dec 2017
“Non-mainstream media news sources across the political spectrum would no longer be able to afford to compete in the marketplace of ideas.”
Vijay Prashad
Libya Is Home to a 21st-Century Slave Market But the UN Security Council Won’t Act
06 Dec 2017
“Libya has become a marketplace for the trafficking of human beings.”
Ben Norton
Media Erase NATO Role in Bringing Slave Markets to Libya
06 Dec 2017
“Militants in the rebel stronghold of Misrata referred to themselves as ‘the brigade for purging slaves, black skin.’”
Solomon Comissiong
How Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Contributed to Libya's Slavery Crisis
06 Dec 2017
“The Obama administration bombed Libya into oblivion while using racist and terrorist rebel groups to do their dirty deeds on the ground.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio Week of December 4, 2017
06 Dec 2017
US to Blame for Slavery in Libya
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Cooperation Jackson's Kali Akuno: Elections Don’t Necessarily Change a Damn Thing
06 Dec 2017
A key strategist among the Black radicals that were behind the election of two Black mayors in Jackson, Mississippi, says his fellow activists have a decision to make: “Are we trying to be a good s
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Abu Jamal: U.S. Obsessed with the Gun
06 Dec 2017
In an essay for Prison Radio, the nation’s best known political prisoner praised the works of Native American historian Roxanne Ortiz-Dunbar, including her latest book on the roots of the country’s
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Even Russian Dissidents Say Americans Have Gone Crazy Over Putin
30 Nov 2017
“Pro-western Russian liberals are dismayed, insulted and angry at the non-stop lunacy churned out by U.S. media.”
Kali Akuno
Casting Light: Reflections on the Struggle to Implement the Jackson-Kush Plan, Part 1: A Response to Comrade Bruce Dixon
29 Nov 2017
“Our agenda includes topics whose importance and acuteness are beyond doubt and in which one concern is predominant: The Struggle.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Contradictions of White Supremacy
29 Nov 2017
“Very few white Americans stray far from this country’s racist origins.”