US Politics

The Real News Network
Yasmin Nair on the Mixed Blessings of Gay Marriage Victory
01 Jul 2015
by The Real News Network Yasmin Nair on the Mixed Blessings of Gay Marriage Victory
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Baltimore Fries
01 Jul 2015
by BAR poet in residence Nathaniel Turner No fries for Ferguson, no burgers For Baltimore—have it your way…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Capitalism and Racism are About Who Rules: Analyzing Power in the Here and Now
01 Jul 2015
by Danny Haiphong “Even if the second flag of white rule (the ‘American’ flag being the first) eventually comes down, the racist system that produced the Confederacy remains upright.” Symbolism is…
Angola 3 News
Restorative Justice for Albert Woodfox and the Black Panther Party – An Interview with Prof. Angela A. Allen-Bell
01 Jul 2015
by Angola 3 News The release of Albert Woodfox, the last of the Angola Three still in prison, has been delayed by the State of the Louisiana and a compliant federal court. Woodfax, the Black Panthers…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 29, 2015
30 Jun 2015
Don’t Just Count Black Bodies – We Need a Program of Liberation Veteran Malcolm X Grassroots Movement activist Kali Akuno is a co-author of the 2012 report Operation Ghetto Storm, which documented…
From Roosevelt Island to Rikers Island – Hillary Clinton Can't See Mass Incarceration
17 Jun 2015
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon New York City's Roosevelt Island and Rikers Island are on the same planet, but different worlds. For Hillary Clinton, the suicide…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
White Supremacy Continues to Provide Protection for Imperialism
17 Jun 2015
by Danny Haiphong “The history leading up to the so-called American ‘Revolution’ is riddled with US imperial deception.” The rebellion was actually a counter-revolution by slave owners and land…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Who is on the Left?
03 Jun 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Dianne Feeley
A Hurricane without Water: Detroit’s Foreclosure Disaster
03 Jun 2015
by Dianne Feeley Public policy in Detroit, the nation’s largest majority Black city, seems structured to create blight and force the current population out of their homes. Sixty-two thousand…
Solomon Comissiong
The American Liberal vs. The Revolutionary: Exposing the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
27 May 2015
by Solomon Comissiong Liberals, despite their protestations, remain wedded to U.S. imperial rule in the world. They wish only that it morph into a kinder, gentler imperialism. A Revolutionary knows…