US Politics

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Clinton’s Basket of “Deplorables”
15 Sep 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Hillary Clinton should include herself in her basket of “deplorables.” She’s got “racism” and "sexism” covered through her endorsement of mass Black incarceration…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 12, 2016
12 Sep 2016
Networks Need to “Do Their Jobs” and Hold 4-Way Debates RootsAction.Org is circulating a petition urging the television networks and cable news operations to “do their job, to hold a presidential…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Young Blacks are Learning the Nature of the Duopoly Beast
08 Sep 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford While Hillary Clinton runs rightward at breakneck speed, attempting to suck every stray Republican into her nasty Big Tent, Black Democrats worry that young African…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Obama Legacy Part X: How Obama's Past Played a Role in the Insurgency of the Present
07 Sep 2016
by Danny Haiphong
Trump Might Call for Four-Way Debates – But Only If He Thinks He Can’t Win
07 Sep 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump might do the right thing and call for opening up the presidential debates to third parties – but mainly for the wrong…
Jeffrey Blankfort
Congressional Black Caucus: Deep in the Israel Lobby’s Pocket
07 Sep 2016
by Jeffrey Blankfort The Congressional Black Caucus is a bought-and-paid-for political ally of the planet’s last remaining apartheid state, Israel. “That the CBC has consistently, as a bloc, voted to…
The Imperial Consensus, Part 1: Hillary and Trump, Republicans and the Congressional Black Caucus Agree on Israeli Apartheid
01 Sep 2016
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Whether it’s gentrification, privatization, environmental destruction, threatening the planet with nukes or maintaining global empire, differences between the…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 29, 2016
29 Aug 2016
Rights Lawyers Target Arkansas Debtors Prison The district court in Sherwood, Arkansas, is in gross violation of a 1983 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to imprison …
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Clintonite Conspiracy Theories
25 Aug 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Hillary Clinton’s agents warn darkly of “conspiracy theories” that might trip up her presidential bid. What they really fear is the release of more damaging facts in…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Clinton and Powell War Criminal Charade
24 Aug 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Hillary Clinton, with help from her collaborators in corporate media, is trying to shift the blame for her email crimes to her predecessor, Colin…