US Politics

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Obama Legacy Part V: Waging War on Civil Liberties
03 Aug 2016
by Danny Haiphong Liberals and leftists supported candidate Barack Obama largely because they thought he would be good for civil liberties. Instead, Obama introduced “indefinite military detention…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Stop Trump Fundamentalists Can Bite Me
03 Aug 2016
by Ann Garrison The duopoly electoral system causes shrinkage of the American mind, compelling otherwise intelligent people to conclude that critics of corporate Democrats must be supporters of…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Wikileaks Exposes Democrats’ Corruption
27 Jul 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Emails released by Wikileaks show the Democratic Party corrupted its own primary process to elect Hillary Clinton – a politician who “has nothing…
To Serve Clinton, Ben Jealous Slimes Jill Stein
27 Jul 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Former NAACP chief Ben Jealous couldn’t wait to get back in the good graces of Democratic Party corporate power. Released from…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Obama Legacy Part IV: Protecting the Racist State, Scorning Black America
26 Jul 2016
by Danny Haiphong In the final analysis, the nation’s First Black President has been a “great protector and arbiter of the racist state.” Not only has Barack Obama refused to indict killer cops, he…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 25, 2016
25 Jul 2016
Activists Take the Fight to Cops’ “Doorsteps” The Fraternal Order of Police is “the most dangerous fraternity in all of America,” said Samantha Masters, spokesperson for the Black Youth Project 100…
Blowback: Does the US Military Incubate Brutal, Abusive Cops Along With Their Deranged, Disconnected Shooters?
21 Jul 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Malicious authoritarians in both parties peddle fantasies connecting Black Lives Matter and the broad movement of millions…
Hillary and Bill Clinton: Specialists in Black Misery, Foreign and Domestic
20 Jul 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford In the 1990s the Clinton Power Couple destroyed welfare as we knew it and threw millions of poor people to the wolves, while imprisoning…
Colin Jenkins
Why the Rich Must be Expropriated
20 Jul 2016
by Colin Jenkins From the very beginning of the system, "racialized chattel slaves were the capital that made capitalism." The author traces the origins of the present day imperialist order, and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 18, 2016
19 Jul 2016
A “New Moment” in Black Struggle The Black struggle in the U.S. is “approaching a new moment” when the country might “become ungovernable by the political class that is tried to Wall Street and the 1…