Media And Culture

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
Prasanth R.
Pan-Africanism Conference Charts Course Towards a Socialist Continent
10 Oct 2018
Hundreds of delegates met in Ghana to discuss five major themes in the Africa-wide struggle against capitalism and imperialism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ira Dworkin’s “Congo Love Song”
10 Oct 2018
Ida B Wells, Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer and others understood the connections between colonialism in Africa and US racial policies.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Johnny Van Hove’s “Congoism”
10 Oct 2018
The lies that are told about the history and people of Congo are then used to defame Black people everywhere, including the US.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Democratic Corporate Fascism vs the Trump Kind
04 Oct 2018
Modern American corporate fascism is rooted in multinational corporate structures and wedded to a concept of racial and cultural “diversity” that (they hope) is compatible with corporate dictatorsh