US Politics

Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
07 Nov 2018
The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and justified US military interventions all over the planet.
Nina Wallace
This Isn’t the First Time White Supremacists Have Tried to Cancel Birthright Citizenship
07 Nov 2018
Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the US a “White Man’s Country, and threatens all people of color.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Back to the Dark Ages
07 Nov 2018
Russiagate is an invented hysteria, a psy-op and propaganda operation that distorts the political realities of both Russia and the US.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
White Supremacists Wage Race War
06 Nov 2018
The armed White Power movement has shifted, since the Vietnam War era, from “earlier incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan to a much more coordinated war against the federal government” and Black and Je
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Solitary Confinement As a Tool of Political Oppression
06 Nov 2018
Since at least the 1950s, prison officials have used solitary confinement as a political tool against Black inmates, said Brittany Friedman, a professor of sociology at Rutgers Uni
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Real Prison Reform Requires Constitutional Revision
06 Nov 2018
Eliminating the portion of the 13thAmendment to the US Constitution that allow enslavement of prisoners is central to prison reform, said prison abolitionist and spoken word artist Max Part
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Thirsty and Stupid Do Stacey Abrams, Lucy McBath, and Most Progressive Democrat Congressional Candidates Think We Are?
01 Nov 2018
How Stupid Do Stacey Abrams and Lucy McBath Think We Are?
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Fascism is Real, But the “Resistance” is Mostly Fake
31 Oct 2018
Fascism is always a danger under capitalism, with its frequent crises and endemic white supremacy, but the phony “resistance” is only concerned about electing Democrats.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Bernie and Barbara: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
31 Oct 2018
How can Bernie Sanders or Barbara Lee keep any of their social democratic promises while scapegoating Russia?
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: American Terror Is Not New
30 Oct 2018
The casual, endemic and racist violence that characterizes American behavior at home and abroad cannot be laid at the doorstep of the current buffoon in the White House.