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Political Mafia Suspected in Marielle Franco Murder
20 May 2019
Only two people have been arrested in the March, 2018 assassination of Marielle Franco, the Black activist and city councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War
16 May 2019
US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: U.S. Wages War Against the World
15 May 2019
The U.S. “troika of tyranny,” Trump, Bolton and Pompeo, are making things up as they go along, seeking to bend the planet to their lawless will.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
2020 Elections: Its Militarism and the Military Budget Stupid!
15 May 2019
The Trump military budget is more than a third higher than five years ago, while cutting non-defense programs by 9 percent– but the corporate media ignore the issue and Democratic candidates are si
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
15 May 2019
This week the hypocrisy of Democratic Party presidential candidates and the reality behind the nonprofit industrial complex were topics on your minds. Readers wrote about “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Renisa Mawani’s “Across Oceans of Law”
15 May 2019
The mass deaths along the Mediterranean are part of a much longer colonial history of maritime security aimed at protecting the freedom of (European) mobility.
Jon Jeter
Adrift in a Decolonizing World, the White Settler Makes a Final, Furious Stand
15 May 2019
From Ramallah to Rio, Capetown to Caracas, Green Bay to Gaza, the sun is setting on the colonial racial order.
Dr. Kweli Nzito
Where Have All the Anti-War Warriors Gone?
15 May 2019
Has the US public become desensitized to the horrendous suffering inflicted by their government, or are they blissful co-imperialists?
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Talking Marxism But Serving Capitalism in South Africa
14 May 2019
South Africa is the only place in the world where the entire Black political class speaks in the language of Marxism-Leninism, even when they are in cahoots with Big Capital.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Women Loom Large in African Secessionist Movements
14 May 2019
In Cameroon and the former Spanish Sahara, “women are using traditional ideas about power to drives these secessionist movements,” said Jacqueline Bethel-Mougoue, a professor of hi