US Politics

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Howard Waitzkin’s “Health Care Under the Knife”
29 May 2019
As global capitalism slowly withers, a non-exploitative health care system has entered the realm of the possible.
Dr. Johnny E. Williams
Parallels Between Black and Palestinian Struggles
29 May 2019
Blacks and Palestinians struggle against the same global matrix of interlocking oppressions.
Carol A. Stabile
How the Communist Blacklist Shaped the Entertainment Industry As We Know It
29 May 2019
Avoid anything that could be construed as progressive or risk never working in television again.
Riva Enteen
National Lawyers Guild Echoes Smear Campaign Against Julian Assange
29 May 2019
The Trump-era brought in a new McCarthyism to which the Guild, shockingly, has fallen prey.
People’s Dispatch staff
Atlanta Jail to be Shut Due to Community Mobilization
29 May 2019
Instead of ensuring public safety for all citizens, the jail wrongfully imprisons and abuses people of color.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
US Protects Jihadists in Syria
27 May 2019
If the United States launches another air strike against Syria, understand that it will be to protect al Qaida, the empire’s jihadist foot soldiers.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Church Complicit in Marking Black Females as Hypersexual
27 May 2019
The Black church has preserved and fostered slavery-based views of Black female sexuality, causing Black women and girls to be labeled as “Jezebels,” said Tamura Lomax, author of&n
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Regime Change Through Social Media
27 May 2019
The CIA’s Digital Innovations Division is now as strategic a tool of regime change as the old cloak and dagger methods of subversion, according to Doug Valentine, author of&nb
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Battle For Ballot Access is a Century Old. It's Time to Break it Open
24 May 2019
In 1916 a socialist ran for president of the United States.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Malcolm, Russiagate and the FBI
23 May 2019
NBC is hawking a wild tale about Black Identity Extremists, scheming Russians, and military training camps in Africa.