Danny Haiphong

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Inauguration Amnesia: The Context of Obama's Failure to Pardon US Political Prisoners
01 Feb 2017
by Danny Haiphong Barack Obama commuted the sentences of a few political prisoners, but pardoned none, leaving countless activists behind bars on trumped up federal charges. The very existence of…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Cuba and Our Common Future
25 Jan 2017
by Danny Haiphong With the Left in the U.S. in such obvious disarray, it is more critical than ever to examine the experience of the Cuban revolution. “It was power in the hands of the working class…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
What Constitutes a "Legitimate President" in the United States?
18 Jan 2017
by Danny Haiphong The furor over Donald Trump’s “legitimacy” as president presumes that the U.S. system of rule is, itself, legitimate, at home and abroad. The Democrats maintain “a legitimate…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Some Guidance on the Russia Question
11 Jan 2017
by Danny Haiphong Barack Obama, “has spent its last days in the White House laying the basis for World War, claiming that the Russian government had directly interfered in the 2016 elections.” The…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Message to the Movement Against Donald Trump: Let the Empire Die
03 Jan 2017
by Danny Haiphong The Democrats are attacking from the Right, desperate to stir up war fever. “The destabilization of Russia is critical to finance capital's agenda of self-enrichment from the chaos…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
US Imperialism is at a Dead End, But Why?
21 Dec 2016
by Danny Haiphong Imperialism is stuck in a rut, and can’t get out. “Every time the imperialist system attempts to expand economically, the sheer impoverishment of the exploited classes ensures that…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
A Lesson from Standing Rock
14 Dec 2016
by Danny Haiphong There have been very few people’s victories under the Obama administration. His corporate policies have prevailed mainly by default, due largely to the failure of progressives to…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
A Eulogy for Fidel
07 Dec 2016
by Danny Haiphong Fidel was a political giant, to whom the U.S. left is indebted, “not only because he and the Cuban people have protected Black revolutionaries such as Assata Shakur, Robert Williams…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Contradictions of the Trump Phenomenon and the Desperation of the US War Machine
30 Nov 2016
by Danny Haiphong Many of the folks tearing their hair out over Donald Trump’s victory were far less alarmed at the Democrats’ role in the unending wars for global domination. For them, war is a…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Obama's Departure is One Reason to Feel Optimism for Trump's Arrival
23 Nov 2016
by Danny Haiphong Fears of Trump should not obscure the fact that Barack Obama’s reign was a disaster. “Black America is in a worse condition than before, working class people as a whole have lost…