Political Economy

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Msia Clark’s “Hip-Hop in Africa”
06 Feb 2019
The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Katie Grimes’s “Fugitive Saints”
06 Feb 2019
The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy.
Ben Norton
Trump-Appointed Venezuela Coup Leader Plans Neoliberal Capitalist Shock Therapy
06 Feb 2019
Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted.
Telesur
Tasers Claimed 49 Lives in 2018 Through Police Violence
06 Feb 2019
There have been a total of at least 1,081 deaths after the use of Tasers since the weapon began coming into widespread use in the early 2000s.
Glenn Greenwald
NBC News Smears Gabbard As A Kremlin Favorite
06 Feb 2019
In slandering anti-war Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, NBC News has broken every rule of journalism.
by Irvin Jim, NUMSA General Secretary
Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party Vows to Resist South African Government’s Privatization Move
06 Feb 2019
The new party insists that transition to renewable energy must be driven by the working class, not for capitalist profit.
Chris Hedges
Goodbye to the Dollar
06 Feb 2019
It’s been a long time coming, but Donald Trump is speeding the dissolution of a US empire stitched together by an artificially exalted currency.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
AIDS and the Black Poor
04 Feb 2019
“Black men are still dying of AIDS” in disproportionate numbers for lack of access to life-saving drugs, said Darius Bost, professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah and
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Corporate Dems Try to Swamp Sanders
04 Feb 2019
Bernie Sanders better hurry up and formally enter the presidential contest, said Danny Haiphong, weekly columnist for Black Agenda Report.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Godfather Protects Venezuelan Collaborator
04 Feb 2019
Washington handed over control of billions in Venezuelan assets to handpicked opposition politician Juan Guaido, who last week proclaimed himself president.