US Politics

Intel Vets Challenge “Russia Hack” Evidence
25 Jul 2017
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) A group of former U.S. intelligence officers have informed President Trump that the “purported ‘hack’ of the DNC by Guccifer 2.0 was not a hack…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Kamala Harris and America’s Oligarchs
19 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley California’s new senator is actively being vetted as the “next Obama, “ or “Obama 2.0” -- a youngish, biracial corporate Democrat and a woman.…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Did Berniecrats Claim the Jackson Mississippi Movement? Do They Want To Be Claimed? Should They?
13 Jul 2017
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Jackson's mayor-elect Chokwe Antar Lumumba stepped to the podium at the cynically misnamed "Peoples Summit", the annual June pilgrimage of…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Democrats Gone Mad: The Year of Living Stupidly
13 Jul 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Nobody voted for the War Party in November of 2016, but that’s who’s in power. Which is why both Democrats and Republicans talk of virtually nothing but Russians and…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
In Healthcare Battle, Corporations Continue to Win While Public Loses
12 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Both Trumpcare and Obamacare are privatized insurance systems tailored to the needs and greed of healthcare corporations. Corporations wrote the Affordable…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: America’s Embarrassment
05 Jul 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Much of America is embarrassed by Donald Trump’s boorish ways -- as if bad manners and geopolitical ignorance are the worst faults a president…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Ending the “Austerity” that Affords Endless War and Little Else
05 Jul 2017
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison U.S. leftists in search of a leader and political model could do worse than Jeremy Corbyn, the British Labour Party leader who is pulling the party back to its social…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 3, 2017
04 Jul 2017
Out of Prison, Rev. Pinkney Resumes Protests “They knew that if they got an all-white jury, I had a 99.9 percent chance of being convicted, even without any evidence,” said Rev. Edward Pinkney, the…
Akeem Browder Fights For Green Mayoral Nomination in New York City
04 Jul 2017
“Color Revolution” Comes Home? Are Americans Also the Victims of “Regime Change”?
04 Jul 2017
by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers The longstanding U.S. practice of staging “color revolutions” against unwanted governments around world has inevitably come home to roost. Donald Trump’s…