Media And Culture

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: American Terror Is Not New
30 Oct 2018
The casual, endemic and racist violence that characterizes American behavior at home and abroad cannot be laid at the doorstep of the current buffoon in the White House.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Chandra Bhimull’s “Empire in the Air“and Kyle Mays’ “Hip Hop Beats”
30 Oct 2018
An author disentangles transatlantic slavery and transatlantic flight; another writer imagines a world where Black and Indigenous Lives actually matter.
Gerald A. Perreira
Trump and Saudi Arabia – One Rogue State to Another
30 Oct 2018
Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Euro-American Empire are at the root of so much bloodshed, it becomes impossible to even list the atrocities.
Philadelphia Saturday Free School
The Black Worker in Our Time: An Indispensable Force for Peace and Justice
30 Oct 2018
In this moment of imperialist crisis white working people must accept unity with and leadership by black workers.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Migrant Caravan and U.S. Policy
24 Oct 2018
Washington blames “socialism” when Venezuelans flee their country’s US-created economic crisis, but defame Honduran refugees fleeing the misery created by the US in that country.
a review by Ron Ridenour
“The Russians are Coming, Again (“first as tragedy, then as farce”)
24 Oct 2018
The US has been waging hot and cod war against Russia for almost a century -- wars that are always accompanied by massive lying to the American public.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Facebook is Not Your Friend
18 Oct 2018
Facebook has become The Great Censor, ready to pull the pages of dissenters that seek to “stir up political debate” in ways that threaten the legitimacy of corporate rule.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Congo in the Abyss
17 Oct 2018
The imperial aggressions of western governments have inflicted multiple holocausts on the Congolese people.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Jamal Khashoggi and U.S. Hypocrisy
17 Oct 2018
The corporate media cry crocodile tears over the apparent murder of an elite, CIA-connected “dissident,” while papering over US complicity in Saudi war crimes in Yemen.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shadaab Rahemtulla’s “Qur'an of the Oppressed”
17 Oct 2018
A central aim of liberation theology, in both the Christian and Muslim faiths, is to wrestle theology away from the elites and their privileged pontification