US Politics

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Liberal Ire at Trump and Cambridge Analytica is Misdirected From Billionaires Who Own Your Data
22 Mar 2018
Liberals this week want to drum us into outrageous fury over the fact that Facebook, with almost 2 billion accounts worldwide, handed over user data of millions of people to Cambridge Analytica, a
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
No Holding Back “Black” Brazil
22 Mar 2018
“The Brazilian state is conducting an even more lethal war against its Black population than its northern counterpart’s militarized oppression of U.S. Blacks.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Luciana Bohne
21 Mar 2018
“My advice to the non-communist western left is to exorcise the ghost of anti-communism and to look into the history of communism, as it really existed.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Vladimir Putin and War Propaganda
21 Mar 2018
“Lies about the Russian government are war propaganda and they are meant to get public support for military action against Russia and its allies.”
Kweli Nzito
A Tale of Three Apartheids and the Land Conundrums
21 Mar 2018
“White settlers were convinced that the lands they appropriated in the ‘dark continent’ and other lands were theirs by right.”
Jaime A Alves
Marielle Franco’s Assassination: One of Tens of Thousands of Black Murders in Brazil
21 Mar 2018
“Brazil`s terrocratic regime continues producing black dead bodies in astonishing scales without disturbing the normalcy of everyday political life in this country.”
Tatyana Hopkins
Black Panther Party Principles Resurrected in Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico
21 Mar 2018
“The Young Lords saw the Black Panthers trying to get justice for Black people, and they knew they needed to do the same thing.”
Sven Beckert
Today’s Capitalism Was Born in Slavery
21 Mar 2018
“We must develop a new appreciation for the centrality of slavery, in the United States and elsewhere, in the emergence of modern capitalism.”
Ellen Brown
The War on the Post Office
21 Mar 2018
“Postal banking can be profitable through economies of scale and the elimination of profit-taking middlemen, as postal banks globally have demonstrated.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Reporter Eva Bartlett Blasts UN
20 Mar 2018
“The United Nations is deliberately participating in war propaganda” favoring the US-backed “terrorists” in Syria, said Eva Bartlett, an independent Canadian journalist who helped