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David K. Cobb
The Working Families Party and Fusion Voting: A Historical and Political Analysis
12 Mar 2025
The Working Families Party presents itself as a political party that works for the interest of working class people. However, the party behaves more like a sheepdog for the Democratic party.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Liberals Want War in Ukraine, Trump Wants Peace in Ukraine, But All Agree on Death in Gaza
05 Mar 2025
Donald Trump’s efforts to normalize relations with Russia, and to end the fighting in the Ukraine proxy war are logical and sensible. But years of whipped up anti-Russia hatred make logical solutions…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Is this ‘Constructive Engagement' 2.0— Or, Freddo frontin’ for Heil tech Hitler?
05 Mar 2025
"Constructive Engagement 2.0— or Freddo frontin’ for heil-tech Hitler?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Hanna Eid
American Lumpen Development - The Data Center Boom
05 Mar 2025
The rise of the data and technology industry plays a key role in the rapid deterioration of social and economic conditions in the U.S.
Gavin O'Reilly
Zelensky and Netanyahu - A Tale of Two White House Visits
05 Mar 2025
The contrast between the reception of Volodymyr Zelensky and Benjamin Netanyahu upon their visits to the White House was stark. This treatment seems to signal a shift in the Trump administration's…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Ukraine, War Propaganda, and the Return of Russiagate
26 Feb 2025
We must be able to acknowledge that Donald Trump has created a serious constitutional crisis while also recognizing that changing the U.S. relationship with Russia is groundbreaking and a necessity.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Gimme, gimme, gimme …
26 Feb 2025
"Gimme, gimme, gimme…" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Bruce Dixon
Another Black Face on MSNBC: Good News For Joy Ann Reid, Not So Much For The Rest of Us
26 Feb 2025
If Fox News is the Republican ministry of TV propaganda, MSNBC is the mouthpiece of the White House and corporate Democrats. The last real journalist in an MSNBC host spot was Phil Donahue, fired for…
Ryan S.
Elon Musk and DOGE Slash Funding for Major Black Kansas City Neighborhood Councils
26 Feb 2025
Elon Musk & DOGE are targeting one of Kansas City’s most prominent Black-led neighborhood councils—slashing a federal grant and threatening a vital food sovereignty movement.
Chuck Squatriglia
Feds Lend Tesla $465 Million to Build Model S
26 Feb 2025
Elon Musk is Donald Trump's right-hand man and viewed as an evil incarnate, but it was Barack Obama's administration which bailed out Tesla with a $465 million loan in 2009. Both wings of the duopoly…