US Politics

Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Victory Over Military Cop Convention
04 Apr 2018
“The best-selling t-shirt at the previous year's expo: a picture of an assault weapon with the caption ‘Black Rifles Matter.’”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Israeli Meddling and Palestinian Death
04 Apr 2018
“Any politician who questions Israeli policy is at immediate risk of being defeated by a well-funded opponent.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Randi Nord
04 Apr 2018
“Anti-imperialism to me means supporting nations in their struggle against my government's violent and exploitative influence.”
Anne Garland Mahler
Charlottesville Mural by Obama “Hope” Poster Artist Causes Controversy
04 Apr 2018
“The artist Shepard Fairey has a history of appropriating images from activist-artists of color and selling them for a profit, without ever acknowledging the originals.”
Paul Street
Against False Conflation: JFK, MLK, and the Triple Evils
04 Apr 2018
“The Kennedy brothers approved racist FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s regular and relentless police state surveillance, smearing and infiltration of the movement, including Dr.
Julian Vigo
A Brief History of Neo-Colonial Rape and the “Freak Shows” of Black Women’s Bodies
04 Apr 2018
“These sites of ‘disaster’ are created by the very ‘civilized’ men who then turn around and exploit the victims of their imposed ‘civilization.’”
Minister Faust
Evidence of Violent Extremism of Little Interest When Killer Is White
04 Apr 2018
“In the upside-down world of corporate media, the race of the terrorist, and the races of the people he’s murdered, seem to matter more than the actions committed.”
Jonathan Cook
If This Happened in Alabama There Would Be Uproar: In Israel, it’s the Norm
04 Apr 2018
“Half of Israeli Jews confess that they do not want ‘Arabs’ as neighbors.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Movement Most in Need of “Political Education”
02 Apr 2018
“We still have too many Black people not being real about our current state of affairs,” said Shannon Jones, of Bronxites for NYPD Accountability, following protests in Manhattan a
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Setback for Cop-Control in Newark
02 Apr 2018
If a New Jersey court decision diluting the powers of the local Civilian Complaint Review Board is allowed to stand, the Newark-based People’s Organization for Progress may be compelled to give up