Political Economy

Stansfield Smith
The Coup in Bolivia: Lessons for our Movement
15 Jan 2020
The ruling class has the capacity to manufacture and implement a coup or a domestic wave of political repression almost off-the-shelf.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 13, 2020
14 Jan 2020
Dems Won’t Impeach Trump for Crimes They Favor
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Women and Babies Endangered by Untreated Depression
14 Jan 2020
Journalist and activist Aneri Pattani, in an article for Truthout, said a number of factors contribute to high rates of post-birth depression among Black mothers in the US, in
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Uncle Sam the Hit Man
14 Jan 2020
Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, says the US is living up to its reputation as an international assassin with its hit on an Iranian general on Iraqi soi
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
British Colonial Racism Comes to Roost
14 Jan 2020
Although Britain never experienced a civil rights movement on its own soil, such movements did take place “in its colonies...in anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggles,” said Adam E
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dems Won’t Impeach Trump for Crimes They Favor
14 Jan 2020
Donald Trump is guilty of many impeachable acts, but the Ukraine scandal “pales into insignificance compared to everything else Trump has done,” said University of Illinois professor of internation
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Trump is a Criminal, But the Democrats Belong to the Same Mafia
09 Jan 2020
The Republicans and Democrats are united under the American imperial banner, and only differ on details of strategy to maintain Washington’s global domination.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Iran and the Need for Black Activism
08 Jan 2020
Black Americans, as perpetual targets of US lies and attacks, should be the first to reject Washington’s rationales for war with Iran.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
Sheep-Dogging on Steroids: The New Democratic Party Anti-War Activists
08 Jan 2020
The rhetoric of the Democratic “progressives” only gives cover to the ongoing criminality of the U.S. state and its commitment to permanent war – with congressional approval.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
John Kerry Did It
08 Jan 2020
The “it” being: put Republicans in power by allowing George Bush to steal the presidency for the second time, in 2004, with no assistance from Russians, Wikileaks or Jill Stein.