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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Bernie and AOC Sheepdog for the Democrats
26 Mar 2025
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are trying to re-engage disaffected voters who are rightly disengaged from the Democratic Party. Big rallies can’t hide the fact that the Fighting…
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…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“Our democracy:” Dictatorship of death merchants in bipartisan Brooks Brothers suits…
06 Oct 2021
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Minimal Minimum Wage
03 Mar 2021
Most Democrats either don’t want a minimum wage increase or are too afraid of bucking their party’s donor class.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden: The Expect Nothing Presidency
03 Mar 2021
Biden’s brand of American exceptionalism has run up against the general crisis of the U.S. imperialist order.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Impeachment Theater
17 Feb 2021
Democracy is hanging on by a thread -- not due to marauding Trumpsters – but because of bipartisan support for neoliberal policies.
Rajko Koundzic
Biden’s Victory Was Hardly a Win for “Democracy.” It Was Another Win for the 1%.
16 Dec 2020
An authentic and organized mass movement is the only way to combat money-power and make progressive policies possible.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Never Trust an Oligarch
11 Feb 2019
Super-rich people’s “charitable” contributions “haven’t done anything to halt inequality,” said Dr Carl Rhodes, of the University of Technology, in Sydney, Australia.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Robert Mercer Rules
24 Jan 2018
“An ultra-rich right winger put Trump in the White House and now controls the country’s political agenda.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Oligarch Jeff Bezos
17 Jan 2018
“Republicans and Democrats alike are willing to turn over government coffers to Bezos and his ilk and the rights of the people be damned.”