US Politics

Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 2, 2017
26 Dec 2016
Obama, Trump, Clinton, Bush – They All Serve the Same Masters When Donald Trump recently stated a willingness to escalate the arms race, it caused a great media stir. But President Obama set in…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 26, 2016
26 Dec 2016
Greens Vs. Lesser-Evilism The Green Party must learn how to “differentiate ourselves from the Democrats.” Otherwise, said Dr. Margaret Flowers, the party’s recent candidate for U.S. Senate from…
Understanding the Grim economics of Incarcerated Labor
14 Dec 2016
Incarcerated Labor: A Hellish Interview of Prison Labor Activst Azzurra Crispino by our friends at This Is Hell Radio Prison labor activist Azzurra Crispino explains how a nation-wide prison work…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 12, 2016
13 Dec 2016
Baraka: Fear of Trump Defeated the Green Party Voters “wanted a change, but were concerned that if they stood with the Green Party challenge, that would in effect be a vote for Donald Trump -- and we…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 5, 2016
06 Dec 2016
Donald Trump’s Corporate Bait-and-Switch A new report by Public Citizen shows 70 percent of Donald Trump’s presidential transition “landing team” members are affiliated with corporations. Trump’s…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Nov 28, 2016
29 Nov 2016
GOP Plans Stealth Attack on Medicare Republicans in Congress have “never really liked Social Security or Medicare” because the programs “work and they completely go against the ideology that the…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Nov 21, 2016
22 Nov 2016
Green Party: Part of the Solution “I fully expected that we were going to get at least five percent of the vote,” said Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka. “I suspect that when push…
War Less Imminent After Clinton Defeat
16 Nov 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Are most Americans warlike, or are they just easily misled into going along with the War Party that dominates both halves of the duopoly…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Nov 14, 2016
15 Nov 2016
Cornel West: Class Becoming “Much More Central” “We are witnessing the end of the neoliberal era,” said Dr. Cornel West, the nation’s most prominent Black public intellectual, assessing the import of…
Malcolm X on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
27 Oct 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon When astute political commentary from a half century ago eloquently describes the current political conundrum it means we’ve been stuck in a bad…