US Politics

Marshall Auerback
Amazon Is a 21st-Century Digital Chain Gang
14 Feb 2018
“Local governments offer subsidies, miss out on tax revenue, starve their citizens of vital social services, and fatten the profits of these modern-day robber
Kenneth Surin
Extreme Poverty in the US Is a Political Choice of the Powerful
14 Feb 2018
“Americans can expect to live shorter and sicker lives, compared to people living in any other wealthy democracies.”
Illinois Deaths in Custody Project
Making Visible the Lives and Deaths of People in Custody
14 Feb 2018
“Poor people should not be confined in a death machine.”
Keith “Comrade Malik” Washington
Criminalizing “Panther Love” and the New Wave COINTELPRO Tactics in Texas Prisons
14 Feb 2018
“I represent a new generation of freedom fighters who have learned from the mistakes of our fallen ancestors.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of February 12, 2018
13 Feb 2018
Black Lives Matter in the Public Schools
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Wall Street’s Caribbean Crime Spree
13 Feb 2018
Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, by UCLA historian Peter Hudson, “is a beautiful, innovative, angry and impeccably researched text,” said Dr.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
No Major U.S. Opposition to War
13 Feb 2018
It’s bad enough that the Trump administration’s recently released Nuclear Posture Review makes the use of nuclear weapons more likely, said Greg Mello, of the Los Alamos Study Grou
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Attack on Syrian Troops Illegitimate
13 Feb 2018
The U.S. has no basis for claiming “legitimate self-defense” to justify its recent killing of about 100 Syrian soldiers, according to Dr.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Lives Matter in the Public Schools
13 Feb 2018
Teachers in public schools around the country held a “Black Lives Matter Week of Action,” last week, demanding an end to “zero tolerance” student disciplinary policies, the hiring of more Black tea
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
The FISA Memo Is Not a Big Nothing-Burger; It’s a Whopper with Fries
07 Feb 2018
“The FBI knew full well that the DNC and the Clinton campaign had paid Steele to produce the dossier, but they did not reveal that to the FISC.”