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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
TikTok and Israel
20 Mar 2024
The TikTok social media platform is an indicator of U.S. imperialist angst and an incentive for greed. First China was a political target and now Zionists are on the attack in an effort to suppress…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
When bagman Vigor Moribund came to town
13 Mar 2024
"When bagman Vigor Moribund came to town" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor , Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s Book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”
01 Nov 2023
This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: Somebody Blew Up America, Amiri Baraka, 2001
05 Jul 2023
A poem from the late Amiri Baraka questions the myths of U.S. exceptionalism that engulfed the nation after 9/11 attacks, contextualizing them with a history of the West’s centuries-long violent…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
OceanGate and How the Wealthy Kill
28 Jun 2023
A mass attack of derision occurred when the facts about the Titan submersible were revealed. Laughter at the expense of an incompetent rich man is understandable but skirts the issue. The rich get…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Malcolm Harris’s Book, “Palo Alto”
19 Apr 2023
This week’s featured author is Malcolm Harris. Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Ghost Stories of Capitalism: Racism is REAL, and It’s a Class Struggle
14 Dec 2022
From culture wars to identity politics, it's easy to get sucked into toxic rhetoric and forget the reality of racism staring the US in the face.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Capitalism and Baby Formula
25 May 2022
The baby formula shortage is not a glitch in the system. It actually exemplifies everything that goes wrong when the profit motive rules. Capitalism can't ensure a food supply or anything else that…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures
17 Nov 2021
For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history -- a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: How the Billionaires Rule
08 Jul 2021
Predatory Capitalism Has Driven Down Wages and Created a Dystopia for Workers.