Liberalism

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
A People(s)-Centered Human Rights Critique of “An Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners”
26 Aug 2026
A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism, which obscures the fact that one is a…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
U.S. Liberal Media Literacy Guide: The World Bank and the IMF
26 Aug 2026
The IMF and World Bank are not subjects the corporate media cover in any real sense. Instead, their role is treated as unquestionably immutable and beneficial.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Empire Has No Clothes: US Imperialism and the Hubris of White “Supremacy” Ideology
01 Apr 2026
Completely stripped of its democratic veneer, U.S. imperialism has been exposed as a system of monopoly capitalism driven by white supremacist psychopathology.
Jason Myles
The Rainbow and the Machine: The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon
25 Feb 2026
Jesse Jackson's legacy is complicated and sometimes contradictory, as he engaged in both radicalism and in political expediency.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real, And It Obfuscates the Requisite Question of Self-Determination in the Heart of U.S. Empire
28 Jan 2026
When political energy is channeled into opposing an individual, that energy is diverted from the work of building the popular power needed to challenge the empire he represents.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Stuck in a Neutral Gear of Watered Down and Whitewashed Prefigurative Politics: How “No Kings” Takes the “Move” Out of Movements
22 Oct 2025
You cannot defeat a king with a parade. The failure of "No Kings" is the refusal to build real power beyond a single day of protest.
Jon Jeter
Clutching at Pearls, the World’s Largest Criminal Enterprise, the US, Cracks Down on Crime
20 Aug 2025
The latest liberal discourse on crime offers useless panaceas to analyze the causes of violence and pathologizes communities while absolving the state of its role in creating these conditions.
Jon Jeter
Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories: Liberal Media Blames Trump for Economic Woes That Began Years Ago
23 Apr 2025
Corporate media peddle the myth of a pre-Trump economic golden age, but for working-class Americans, especially Black families, the struggle began long before he took office.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Neo-Kautskyism: Exposing the Bernie/AOC “Fight Oligarchy” Tour de Farce
23 Apr 2025
Lenin called out Kautsky’s fake socialism more than a century ago—today, Bernie and AOC are playing the same game, trading radical change for liberal theatrics.
Too Black , Rasul Mowatt
Bootleg Rehab: Still Laundering Black Rage
16 Apr 2025
DEI isn’t dead—it was never alive to begin with. A corporate pacification project dressed as progress, it launders Black rage into diversity statements while police budgets grow and material…