US Politics

Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 6, 2017
07 Feb 2017
Protests in Dixie Against Trump’s “White Supremacist Government” Hundreds gathered in Columbia, South Carolina, to protest President Trump’s ban on refugees and visitors from seven mostly Muslim…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Democrats, Including Bernie Sanders, Won’t Fight for Medicare for All
01 Feb 2017
If there is one political project that commands overwhelming support among Democrats -- plus large minorities of Republicans – it is Medicare for All. But Democratic leaders insist that all their…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Democrats Manipulate the Movement that Should Leave Them Behind
01 Feb 2017
by Ann Garrison Much of what passes for the Left in the U.S. is either an extension of the Democratic Party or a project of non-profit organizations funded by the One Percent. As BAR’s Bruce Dixon…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Cory Booker, Corporate Hooker: The Perfect Establishment Opposition to Donald Trump
26 Jan 2017
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon After losing the White House to the most unpopular president in history, Democrats have lots to say, but even more to avoid saying, lest they expose themselves…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats Attack Trump from the Right
25 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democratic Party has devolved into complete irrationality and irrelevance, sucking its Black followers into the idiotic abyss. “Years of…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
The Women’s March in Washington D.C., as Broadcast
25 Jan 2017
by Ann Garrison If you watched it on TV, the Women’s March on Washington seemed to be a Democratic Party, Hillary-Is-My-President affair. “It was all about protection and equal opportunity for…
Good Journalism Requires Openness to Foreign Sources of Information
25 Jan 2017
by Steve Cunningham  Since when has journalistic ethics prohibited accepting accurate and valuable information from foreign sources? Wikileaks has done the American public a great service by exposing…
Paul Bermanzohn
“Fake News” Crisis Covers Deeper Crisis of Legitimacy
25 Jan 2017
by Paul C. Bermanzohn The deepening crisis of an illegitimate system that only serves the rich has caused a section of the ruling class to charge a sitting president -- one of their own! -- with the…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 23, 2017
24 Jan 2017
Irrationality Reigns: After All the Lies, Some Folks Still Believe the CIA Ajamu Baraka, the Green Party’s vice 2016 presidential candidate, said he is appalled at the spectacle of “progressives” and…
Is It Time To Revoke John Lewis’s Lifetime Civil Rights Hero Pass?
19 Jan 2017
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon John Lewis was a hero 52 years ago. What’s he doing nowadays with his Lifetime Civil Rights Hero pass? He’s a 14 term Atlanta…