US Politics

Soft Porn Tape Trumps Wikileaks Truths: Hillary’s “Private” Lies Prevail
12 Oct 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford It pays to have friends in corporate media. NBC spared Hillary Clinton potentially catastrophic damage by releasing an old Donald Trump…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Ruling Class Food Fights: Trump vs. Bushes
12 Oct 2016
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo It would be nice if the old adage, “What goes around, comes around” applied to the larger world of gross inequality and race and class oppression.…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Left-Wing Paralysis and the Decay of Lesser Evil Politics
12 Oct 2016
by Danny Haiphong Lesser-evilism has rendered the U.S. Left incapable of resisting the forces of imperial war and bankster rule when they come in the form of Democrats. “What is most important …
Black Agenda Report for Week of Oct 3, 2016
10 Oct 2016
Reparations a Necessity to Correct America’s Crimes The United Nations panel of experts that blasted the U.S. for its “legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation,…
Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
CBC Report Card 2016: Why the Congressional Black Caucus Can’t Lead Black America
06 Oct 2016
by Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor The 41 full-voting Black Democratic members of the U.S. House scored higher than last year on the new CBC Monitor Report Card, but that’s mostly…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Emails, Hugs, and the Coming Revision of the Obama Swan Song
04 Oct 2016
by Danny Haiphong It’s not a pretty picture: Michelle Obama hugging George Bush. But her husband has been politically intimate with Republicans all along – and now we learn that he knew about Hillary…
Yash Tandon
Clinton or Trump: Who is better for Africa?
04 Oct 2016
by Yash Tandon Clinton is part of the Establishment. “It is part of her inheritance to provoke wars and control the world in league with global corporations.” Nobody knows what lies behind Trump’s…
Black Agenda Report for Week of October 3, 2016
03 Oct 2016
Clinton is Far More Anti-Crime Than Pro-Justice When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed over stop-and-frisk at their first televised debate, Clinton only weakly addressed “the idea of racial…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Great Debate That Never Was
29 Sep 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If the Green Party’s Jill Stein had been allowed in this week’s presidential debate, it would have transformed the discussion and altered the race. That’s why…
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Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Answers Debate Questions in Real Time
29 Sep 2016
Green Party's Jill Stein Answers Debate Questions in Real Time 2016 Presidential Debates