US Politics

Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 25, 2016
25 Jul 2016
Activists Take the Fight to Cops’ “Doorsteps” The Fraternal Order of Police is “the most dangerous fraternity in all of America,” said Samantha Masters, spokesperson for the Black Youth Project 100…
Blowback: Does the US Military Incubate Brutal, Abusive Cops Along With Their Deranged, Disconnected Shooters?
21 Jul 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Malicious authoritarians in both parties peddle fantasies connecting Black Lives Matter and the broad movement of millions…
Hillary and Bill Clinton: Specialists in Black Misery, Foreign and Domestic
20 Jul 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford In the 1990s the Clinton Power Couple destroyed welfare as we knew it and threw millions of poor people to the wolves, while imprisoning…
Colin Jenkins
Why the Rich Must be Expropriated
20 Jul 2016
by Colin Jenkins From the very beginning of the system, "racialized chattel slaves were the capital that made capitalism." The author traces the origins of the present day imperialist order, and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 18, 2016
19 Jul 2016
A “New Moment” in Black Struggle The Black struggle in the U.S. is “approaching a new moment” when the country might “become ungovernable by the political class that is tried to Wall Street and the 1…
The Real News Network
The Ford Report: Philando Castile Was Killed Because He Was Black, Not Because He Had A Gun
14 Jul 2016
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Sanders Didn’t Lose the Black Vote: He Never Had It, and Never Asked Why
14 Jul 2016
On the issues, Bernie Sanders should have won the black vote. But presidential politics isn’t just about issues, it’s about entrenched alliances and relations of power. Without understanding why the…
The Real News Network
Despite Sanders, Dems Platform Embraces TPP, Militarism, Israeli Apartheid, Shows Weakness of Antiwar Movement
13 Jul 2016
Bernie Sanders Endorses the World’s Greatest (Presumptive) Evil
13 Jul 2016
Bernie Sanders ran an extraordinary race, making lots of noise and causing great consternation, but never daring to leave the corporate duopoly. Now his job is to deliver the bulk of his sheep into…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Beyond Bernie: Socialist Alternative endorses Jill Stein
13 Jul 2016
by Ann Garrison The Socialist Alternative party urges leftists to unite behind Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. “We are urging all Sandernistas to help us register the strongest…