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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…
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik
Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End
28 Aug 2019
Donald Trump’s resort to protectionism is recognition of having reached this cul-de-sac. “Neoliberal capitalism has no vision for reinventing itself.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Yellow Vests Show the Way
12 Dec 2018
The yellow vests ought to be inspirations for the 99% on this side of the Atlantic ocean. “They will not accept neoliberal plunder without a fight.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
The Amazon Robbery
21 Nov 2018
The world’s richest man just pulled a con job on several hundred US cities, which tells us a lot about the (mostly) Democrats that run these towns.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Democratic Corporate Fascism vs the Trump Kind
04 Oct 2018
Modern American corporate fascism is rooted in multinational corporate structures and wedded to a concept of racial and cultural “diversity” that (they hope) is compatible with corporate dictatorsh
Miles Kampf-Lassin
The Anti-Union Janus Ruling Is Going to Hit Black Women the Hardest
04 Jul 2018
“The public sector provides job opportunities for African-American workers, and women especially, at a rate much higher than the private sector.”
Ken Morgan
Low Black Employment Rates and Tariffs Not the Answer
11 Apr 2018
“Capitalism is the problem, not less or more tariffs.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with John Sibley
14 Mar 2018
“A capitalist does not think that just your existence in-the-world is a contribution.”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The 1% Will Earn the People's Hatred
21 Dec 2017
“The rich prevail in virtually every contest because their political monopoly matches their monopoly on economic power.”
Alvaro Reyes
Fascists Will Fester Until We Get Rid of Capitalism
20 Sep 2017
Ana Curcio interviews Alvaro Reyes about Charlottesville, white supremacy, and contemporary challenges for politics in the US.