Political Economy

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies
04 Apr 2019
The U.S. has nothing to offer Africa but guns, drones and an extended half-life for the neocolonial order.
Black Alliance For Peace
Black Alliance for Peace Demands Black Caucus Hold Hearings on US Militarization of Africa
03 Apr 2019
As part of its “US Out of Africa” campaign, BAP collected thousands of signatures demanding Black lawmakers fulfill their responsibilities to Africa and peace.
Дэвид Свонсон
Putin Claims to Have Sabotaged Mueller Report
03 Apr 2019
Trump could shoot Putin in the middle of Red Square and would still be seen as a Russian asset by true believers in CIA propaganda.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Remembering April 4th
03 Apr 2019
Dr King understood that drawing a line in the sand against imperialism was necessary to bring about the radical changes he wanted to see in the United States.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
American Exceptionalism is at the root of the Fake News Epidemic Attempting to Overthrow Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
03 Apr 2019
American exceptionalism is a white exceptionalism that portrays the U.S. as a society rooted in democracy rather than slavery, liberty rather than brutality and genocide.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Commemorating the Rwandan Genocide: A Senate Resolution in Praise of Blood
03 Apr 2019
Citing the Rwandan bloodbath, the US Senate is considering yet another measure justifying so-called “humanitarian” military intervention.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 Apr 2019
This week readers wanted to discuss Tulsi Gabbard’s views on war and Barack Obama’s black critics. Thoughtful responses came for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ruma Chopra’s “Almost Home”
03 Apr 2019
This is a story about the ways in which the Maroons positioned themselves within a powerful and expanding empire.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Paul Steinbeck’s “Message to Our Folks”
03 Apr 2019
The members of the Art Ensemble represented “five different articulations of Africanity.”
Peoples Dispatch Staff
Zimbabwean Communists Say Handing Over Mineral Resources to Foreign Firms is Treason
03 Apr 2019
Zimbabwe’s new “open for business” posture apparently means, “Come and take all of our resources.”