Political Economy

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Pentagon Adds Its Madness to "Fake News” Hysteria
23 Sep 2019
The evil geniuses at DARPA claim to be building a defense against fake news – a sure sign that the Pentagon is actually creating fake news.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Follows Anti-Black Model in Immigration
23 Sep 2019
The US has criminalized immigrants, just as it has used the criminal justice system to control and oppress African Americans, said Ben Ndugga Kabuye, of the Black Alliance for
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Trump Sanctions Will Doom Dollar Supremacy
23 Sep 2019
President Trump’s massive use of sanctions as a weapon of US policy “has put the world’s financial, monetary and trading system into crisis,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Believe Absolutely Nothing the US Government and Media Say About…Anything
19 Sep 2019
In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples. We betray ourselves and become Black Gringos.
BAR staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13thAnniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
18 Sep 2019
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Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Biden and the Black Vote
18 Sep 2019
Older Black voters appear to buy into the idea of Biden’s “electability,” a farce engineered by Democratic elites that is likely to give us four more years of Trump.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Slick Willy and the sandwiches
18 Sep 2019
Slick Willy swears he only took four flights and gorged himself on peanut butter and jelly Sandwiches—take off to landing…
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
18 Sep 2019
This week you wrote back about Hollywood imperial propaganda and the firing of John Bolton. We share your comments on “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Patricia Pinho’s “Mapping Diaspora”
18 Sep 2019
Transnational black solidarity has been a central component of African American roots tourism in Brazil, even as international tourism also allows for the enactment of first-world subjectivities.…
T.P. Wilkinson
How to Find a Tiger in Africa: Searching for Agostinho Neto (1922 –1979)
18 Sep 2019
The history of liberated Angola, like the history of the world, cannot be told by humanity’s oppressors.