US Politics

Black Agenda Report for Week of Oct 17, 2016
18 Oct 2016
If Trump is a Fascist, What is Clinton? Speaking to a gathering of the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition, in Atlanta, Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford challenged those who maintain…
The Real News Network
The "Ferguson Effect" and Minimizing Demands for Police Reform
13 Oct 2016
The "Ferguson Effect" and Minimizing Demands for Police Reform by the Real News Network
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Apocalypse Hillary
13 Oct 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump is a dead racist walking; there’s no reason for “progressives” to vote for Clinton for fear of Trump. But everyone “should be terrified of Hillary…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Anti-Trump Hypocrisy
12 Oct 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley By immensely helpful coincidence, Donald Trump’s 11-year-old sexist rant tape surfaced on the same day that Wikileaks revealed Hillary Clinton’s…
Soft Porn Tape Trumps Wikileaks Truths: Hillary’s “Private” Lies Prevail
12 Oct 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford It pays to have friends in corporate media. NBC spared Hillary Clinton potentially catastrophic damage by releasing an old Donald Trump…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Ruling Class Food Fights: Trump vs. Bushes
12 Oct 2016
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo It would be nice if the old adage, “What goes around, comes around” applied to the larger world of gross inequality and race and class oppression.…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Left-Wing Paralysis and the Decay of Lesser Evil Politics
12 Oct 2016
by Danny Haiphong Lesser-evilism has rendered the U.S. Left incapable of resisting the forces of imperial war and bankster rule when they come in the form of Democrats. “What is most important …
Black Agenda Report for Week of Oct 3, 2016
10 Oct 2016
Reparations a Necessity to Correct America’s Crimes The United Nations panel of experts that blasted the U.S. for its “legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation,…
Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
CBC Report Card 2016: Why the Congressional Black Caucus Can’t Lead Black America
06 Oct 2016
by Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor The 41 full-voting Black Democratic members of the U.S. House scored higher than last year on the new CBC Monitor Report Card, but that’s mostly…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Emails, Hugs, and the Coming Revision of the Obama Swan Song
04 Oct 2016
by Danny Haiphong It’s not a pretty picture: Michelle Obama hugging George Bush. But her husband has been politically intimate with Republicans all along – and now we learn that he knew about Hillary…