Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Accountability Movement Declares War on Chicago City Council
11 Dec 2018
Veteran activist Frank Chapman says supporters of C-PAC, the proposed Civilian Police Accountability Council, plan to run candidates for every seat on the Chicago board of ald
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Violent Cops are Health Menace
10 Dec 2018
Activists of Critical Resistance won American Public Health Association endorsement of the principle that police violence is a public health issue.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Anti-Russian Hysteria Makes Americans Stupid
10 Dec 2018
Not only have Russiagate-mongers “instilled fear of Russia as an enemy, but also a seemingly omnipotent enemy that can swing U.S.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Israel Gets Its Way, Again
10 Dec 2018
Marc Lamont Hill’s firing from CNN for defending the rights of Palestinians is another “step in the direction of no resistance to anything Israel says and does,” said Dr.
Noura Erakat
Marc Lamont Hill and the Legacy of Punishing Black Internationalists
07 Dec 2018
Hill’s bold statement to the UN is part of the internationalist Black radical tradition, exemplified by Paul Robeson, the Black Panther Party, and today’s Black Lives Matter movement.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
All US Presidents, Living and Dead, are War Criminals
06 Dec 2018
Especially at state funerals, media and politicians pretend that US presidents are honorable men, instead of the mass murderers that all of them become in office.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!
05 Dec 2018
The post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , #LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Session
#LandWithoutLandlords in Black Oakland: An Interview with Noni Sessions
05 Dec 2018
A dynamic new community project has been launched to halt the push-out of Black and brown people from Oakland by taking land and housing out of the speculative market.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Mueller, Manafort and Assange
05 Dec 2018
The Mueller investigation much more resembles a propaganda campaign whose goal is neither truth nor justice, but vilification of Russia in the pursuit of endless war.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Pierre Omidyar: A Dangerous Billionaire-Backer of the “Resistance”
05 Dec 2018
The eBay billionaire’s project is to stabilize an imperial system in crisis by luring “progressives” into corporate dominated “Big Tent” against Trump.