US Politics

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Javon Johnson’s “Killing Poetry”
27 Feb 2019
Slam and spoken word poetry created their own spaces and voices, and may one day provide a blueprint for making new worlds.
Vijay Prashad
How the U.S. Is Strangling Haiti as It Attempts Regime Change in Venezuela
27 Feb 2019
The people of Haiti demand to know who stole the oil money that was gifted to them in solidarity by the people of Venezuela.
John Pilger
The War On Venezuela is Built On lies
27 Feb 2019
The rich white West seeks to drown one of the most vibrant democracies in world under a tsunami of falsehoods and libel.
Kathryn Macapagal and Darnell Motley
Eliminating HIV in Black Communities
27 Feb 2019
The fight against HIV in Black America requires a comprehensive assault on institutional health disparities.
Marline L. Daut
Recent Protests in Haiti Expose Democracy’s Lie
27 Feb 2019
One of the greatest fictions of democracy is that people oppressed by their own government can place their faith in the electoral process.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Upholding the Humanity of Police Victims
26 Feb 2019
Eleanor Bumpers, the grandmother killed by New York City cops in 1984, was blamed for her own death, with officials citing her past criminal conviction and mental problems.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Uphold White Supremacy and Rule of the Rich
26 Feb 2019
The militarization of police and so-called community policing are “two complimentary aspects of a single strategy of counterinsurgency” directed against Black communities, said Kristian Wil
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Activists: US Acts Like Outlaw in Venezuela
26 Feb 2019
“The majority of the countries of the world have taken a stand against the US intervention in Venezuela,” said Roger Wareham, a human rights lawyer and member of the New York-based
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bernie Tries to Steal the Rich Man’s Party
21 Feb 2019
The plutocrats did not invest billions of dollars every election cycle in the Democratic Party to see it used as a tool of their disempowerment.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris: The Fix is In
20 Feb 2019
Harris’ own father called her out for identity politics and stereotyping Jamaicans, but the corporate Democrats are betting she can derail Bernie Sanders with Black voters.