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Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
From Uncle Tom to Cousin Cory: (Or, The Curious Case of Mr. Booker’s Senate Floor Minstrel Show)
09 Apr 2025
Senator Cory Booker’s recent 25-hour Senate speech is hailed by some as an act of resistance. Really, it exposes the moral bankruptcy of neoliberal politics, as his performative progressivism clashes…
Tamara Nassar , Ali Abunimah
AOC votes to back Israel lobby’s bogus “anti-Semitism” definition
27 Nov 2024
New York's "progressive" congresswoman panders to the Israel lobby by supporting a definition of antisemitism that will stifle free speech.
Noah Hurowitz
Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies
13 Nov 2024
The House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims support terrorism.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Psy-Op Satan’s Speech on Capitalist Hill
31 Jul 2024
"Psy-Op Satan’s Speech on Capitalist Hill" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
2000 lb. Bombastic Blitzkrieg-Klan Rally on Capitalist Hill (For Genocide and War-profiteering)
24 Jul 2024
"2000 lb. Bombastic Blitzkrieg-Klan Rally on Capitalist Hill (For Genocide and War-profiteering)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Jamaal Bowman, AIPAC, Phony Progressives, and Black Misleadership
26 Jun 2024
Jamaal Bowman is more of a clown than he is a congressman. His lack of seriousness and AIPAC money defeated him in a primary election. The lesson is to fight for and mobilize the people, who will…
Sara Flounders
Three U.S. wars Threaten World War Three: $95 Billion Targets Palestine, Iran, Russia and China
08 May 2024
The recent aid package passed by the U.S. Congress reveals its true priorities - a multifront war that threatens the stability of the world.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Musings from the Margins #4: Black Lackeys, White Social Democrats, Human Rights and Empire’s Decline
13 Dec 2023
Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on Black Misleadership, faux human rights, the decline of the Empire, white Social Democrats, and other issues.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Gaza War Crimes Make a Mockery of Western "Democracy"
08 Nov 2023
The "democracies" of the world don't live up to this concept they claim is so important to them.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Laphonza Butler’s Liberal Dem Credentials All But Glow in the Dark
10 Oct 2023
No one better exemplifies the Democratic Party’s overarching identity politics than California Governor Gavin Newsom.