International

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline
07 Feb 2019
Bernie Sanders’ anticipated second run for the presidency is the 6-ton elephant in the Democratic boardroom.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
“How I Lost by Hillary Clinton,” a Book Review
06 Feb 2019
Rich and manipulative people like Hillary Clinton and her DNC cohorts were defeated by their own emails. “You can expect her to run for president once again.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On Venezuela and NATO, the Democratic Party is the “Assistance” Not the “Resistance” to Empire
06 Feb 2019
Black, working and poor people can expect no relief from Democrats, who will continue to divert the nation’s resources to foreign wars and coups.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
06 Feb 2019
This week the reader discussion was on the limits of electoral democracy in the United States and the accommodation of diversity in American imperialism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Msia Clark’s “Hip-Hop in Africa”
06 Feb 2019
The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Katie Grimes’s “Fugitive Saints”
06 Feb 2019
The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy.
Ben Norton
Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy
06 Feb 2019
Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted.
by Irvin Jim, NUMSA General Secretary
Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party Vows to Resist South African Government’s Privatization Move
06 Feb 2019
The new party insists that transition to renewable energy must be driven by the working class, not for capitalist profit.
Chris Hedges
Goodbye to the Dollar
06 Feb 2019
It’s been a long time coming, but Donald Trump is speeding the dissolution of a US empire stitched together by an artificially exalted currency.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Godfather Protects Venezuelan Collaborator
04 Feb 2019
Washington handed over control of billions in Venezuelan assets to handpicked opposition politician Juan Guaido, who last week proclaimed himself president.