Media And Culture

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Rouge State
28 Mar 2018
Nuclear bully’s roaring for war Thru the mouth of its dinosaur— At war ever since its bloody birth Now, threatening the entire earth!
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Stephan House, Draylen Mason, Stephon Clark: Terror Victims
28 Mar 2018
“Business should not go on as usual when the police act as the 21st century slave patrol.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
March for Eight Billion Lives: An Interview with Riva Enteen
28 Mar 2018
“Of course we support the cause of protecting lives, but there is an exceptionalism to believing it only applies to American lives and especially white lives.”
Chris Hedges
Building the Iron Wall
28 Mar 2018
“The ominous assault on the final redoubts of a free press, through an attempt to brand dissidents, independent journalists and critics of corporate power and imperialism as agents of a
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Liberal Ire at Trump and Cambridge Analytica is Misdirected From Billionaires Who Own Your Data
22 Mar 2018
Liberals this week want to drum us into outrageous fury over the fact that Facebook, with almost 2 billion accounts worldwide, handed over user data of millions of people to Cambridge Analytica, a
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Luciana Bohne
21 Mar 2018
“My advice to the non-communist western left is to exorcise the ghost of anti-communism and to look into the history of communism, as it really existed.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Vladimir Putin and War Propaganda
21 Mar 2018
“Lies about the Russian government are war propaganda and they are meant to get public support for military action against Russia and its allies.”
Tatyana Hopkins
Black Panther Party Principles Resurrected in Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico
21 Mar 2018
“The Young Lords saw the Black Panthers trying to get justice for Black people, and they knew they needed to do the same thing.”
Ellen Brown
The War on the Post Office
21 Mar 2018
“Postal banking can be profitable through economies of scale and the elimination of profit-taking middlemen, as postal banks globally have demonstrated.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Slavery Was Uniquely Capitalist
20 Mar 2018
Even on the left, the capitalist nature of US slavery is not well understood, said historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment