US Politics

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joseph Drexler-Dreis’s “Decolonial Love”
11 Sep 2019
Colonial relations of power and ways of classifying human persons that were essential to political colonialism have persisted.
Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Spikes of Violence: Protest in West Papua
11 Sep 2019
Papua and West Papua are subjected to violence and habitual repression from the Indonesian central authorities.
Tory Russell
A Ferguson Organizer Reflects on the Aftermath
11 Sep 2019
We figured out pretty fast that hashtags don’t move white supremacists, and petitions don’t change policy for Black lives.
Anton Woronczuk
White Supremacy Tried to Kill Jazz. An Interview with Gerald Horne
11 Sep 2019
Viewing musicians as exploited workers and as beleaguered contractors helps contribute to a better understanding of their art form and art more generally.
Popular Resistance
Save the Planet and Stop the US War Machine! Sept 20-23
11 Sep 2019
It’s time for the US government to obey the United Nations Charter by stopping regime change operations, ending sanctions and ceasing military attacks.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 9, 2019
10 Sep 2019
Jay-Z Seeks to Profit from the War Machine
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The “Great Contradiction” of US Incarceration
10 Sep 2019
Donte Mitchell, a longtime prisoner of the State of New York, finds essential truths in the poem, “The Great Contradiction,” as it applies to the two million prisoners in US.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Slavery is Model for US Prison Book-Banning
10 Sep 2019
Although First Amendment guarantees of freedom of expression apply to prisoners, the “catch is that these rights can be restricted in the interest of security,” said Professor Brittany Friedman, a
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
FBI Terror "Watch List” is Unconstitutional
10 Sep 2019
“The US has always had a watchlist,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford, following a federal judge’s ruling that the FBI’s anti-terror Watch List is unconstitutional.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Green Party Gears Up for Eco-Socialism Conference
10 Sep 2019
Anita Rios, national co-chair of the Green Party, says the Democrat’s version of the Green New Deal is mostly “rhetoric,” while her party’s “eco-socialist agenda is the only path t