US Politics

Black Agenda Radio for Week of Nov 14, 2016
15 Nov 2016
Cornel West: Class Becoming “Much More Central” “We are witnessing the end of the neoliberal era,” said Dr. Cornel West, the nation’s most prominent Black public intellectual, assessing the import of…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Democratic Debacle – The Day After
10 Nov 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The GOP won at the polls, but Black, brown and working class Democrats have been taking a beating from their own party for decades. “The Democratic Party has failed…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Dump the Democrats for Good
09 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Donald Trump, the white nationalist that claimed to oppose the corporate establishment, appears to have won the U.S. presidency. But, “even the…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Margaret Flowers’ Retrospective on Running as a Green for the U.S. Senate
08 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo The major parties are more concerned with preserving their duopoly than with defeating each other. So-called “progressives” help preserve duopoly rule,…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Clinton Is the Most Dangerous Person Alive – An Interview with Edward S. Herman
08 Nov 2016
by Ann Garrison The just-concluded election revealed as much about the corporate media, which has broken every rule of journalism to support Hillary Clinton, and the fraudulence of much of the…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Hillary’s “Big Tent” is Obama’s “Grand Bargain” on Steroids
03 Nov 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama tried to woo Republicans into a “Grand Bargain” that would have gutted Social Security. Bill Clinton let loose the banks. But Donald Trump’s destruction…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Green Party’s Margaret Flowers Challenges US Senate Debate in Maryland as Undemocratic
02 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo The “revolving, rigged system” that purports to be American democracy was revealed in all its corporate vulgarity on a Baltimore university stage, last…
Matt Sedillo
LesserOfTwoEvilism
02 Nov 2016
by Matt Sedillo Hillary Clinton is, no doubt, a threat to life on Earth. But the duopoly electoral system is a menagerie of warmongers. “The response to the white nationalism of Donald Trump has been…
Malcolm X on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
27 Oct 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon When astute political commentary from a half century ago eloquently describes the current political conundrum it means we’ve been stuck in a bad…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Fighting Ghost Fascists While Aiding Real Ones
27 Oct 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford An architect of regime-change, coups, no-fly zones, rule of the rich and mass incarceration is about to become Commander-in-Chief, yet the bulk of what passes for…