US Politics

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
China’s Planned Economy is on the Rise, which is Bad News for US Empire
20 Jun 2018
“American exceptionalism is rooted in the fairy-tale belief of racial superiority, of which American exceptionalism is a national and imperial expression.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Nikki Haley: Damn the UN Human Rights Council and the Rest of You Too
20 Jun 2018
“More censure of Israel is no doubt in the works, given Israel’s latest massacres in Gaza.”
Paul Street
None of Us Are Free if One of Us is Chained
20 Jun 2018
“If the federal government ‘caging children’ and ‘separating families’ doesn’t put you in the streets, what will?”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats Unhinged by Korea
20 Jun 2018
“The bipartisan war making consensus is in full effect.”
Ed Pilkington
Black Liberationist Debbie Sims Africa Speaks Out After Her 40 Years in Prison
20 Jun 2018
“This is a storied victory for Debbie and her family, and the Move organization.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Stephen Gowans’ “Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom”
20 Jun 2018
“The leader of every state that has refused to submit to US political and economic domination is defamed as a monster.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shane Maddock’s “Nuclear Apartheid”
20 Jun 2018
“Ultimately, the surest way to reduce the risk of nuclear war is to eliminate nuclear weapons.”
R. Divya Nair
Oraa Aamaader Gaan Gaaite Dyay Naa: A Bengali Panegyric to Paul Robeson
20 Jun 2018
“The Indian people cherish Robeson’s example of revolutionary humanity at its most developed and saluted him as their black brother in struggle.”
Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience
Nicaragua: Open Letter to Amnesty International
20 Jun 2018
“Amnesty International is complicit in what future foreign intervention might fall upon the Nicaraguan people.”
Ken Peeples
US Criminal Justice: Why the Two-Tiered Justice System is Really THREE-Tiered
20 Jun 2018
“Mass incarceration and selective enforcement of laws is a conscious decisionin this country.”