US Politics

Trump Might Call for Four-Way Debates – But Only If He Thinks He Can’t Win
07 Sep 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump might do the right thing and call for opening up the presidential debates to third parties – but mainly for the wrong…
Jeffrey Blankfort
Congressional Black Caucus: Deep in the Israel Lobby’s Pocket
07 Sep 2016
by Jeffrey Blankfort The Congressional Black Caucus is a bought-and-paid-for political ally of the planet’s last remaining apartheid state, Israel. “That the CBC has consistently, as a bloc, voted to…
The Imperial Consensus, Part 1: Hillary and Trump, Republicans and the Congressional Black Caucus Agree on Israeli Apartheid
01 Sep 2016
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Whether it’s gentrification, privatization, environmental destruction, threatening the planet with nukes or maintaining global empire, differences between the…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 29, 2016
29 Aug 2016
Rights Lawyers Target Arkansas Debtors Prison The district court in Sherwood, Arkansas, is in gross violation of a 1983 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that it is unconstitutional to imprison …
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Clintonite Conspiracy Theories
25 Aug 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Hillary Clinton’s agents warn darkly of “conspiracy theories” that might trip up her presidential bid. What they really fear is the release of more damaging facts in…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Clinton and Powell War Criminal Charade
24 Aug 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Hillary Clinton, with help from her collaborators in corporate media, is trying to shift the blame for her email crimes to her predecessor, Colin…
Eric Draitser
Ajamu Baraka, “Uncle Tom,” and the Pathology of White Liberal Racism
24 Aug 2016
by Eric Draitser CNN’s Chris Cuomo acted as if Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka had committed a crime in calling President Obama an “Uncle Tom.” However, “even a cursory analysis…
Black Agenda Report for Week of August 22, 2016
23 Aug 2016
Presidential Pollsters Ask the Wrong Question “There’s no major poll that I know of that asks the American public who they want to be president,” said journalist and VotePact founder Sam Husseini.…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why Ajamu Baraka? Why Vice President? And Why the Green Party?
18 Aug 2016
What does the Green Party nomination of longtime Black Agenda Report contributing editor Ajamu Baraka for Vice President mean for the Green Party and the 2016 presidential election? Is he just…
The Real News Network
Do Black Lives Matter to the Green Party? A Real News Interview with Bruce Dixon
17 Aug 2016