Political Economy

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Malcolm X Would Say Russiagate is a Fool’s Game
22 Nov 2018
The Democrats and their media have fashioned a trap for Blacks and browns: accept endless foreign wars and domestic austerity in return for the representation of dark faces in high pl
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
The Amazon Robbery
21 Nov 2018
The world’s richest man just pulled a con job on several hundred US cities, which tells us a lot about the (mostly) Democrats that run these towns.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Liberal Fascism Rears Its Ugly Head in the #ProtectMueller Campaign
20 Nov 2018
Enemies of the people do not become heroes of the people just because Trump dislikes them and they dislike Trump. “Mueller is a pig agent of the ruling class.”
Cat Brooks
This Law Helps Police Get Away With Murder. Let's End It.
20 Nov 2018
Officers, who are armed and tasked to serve and protect, should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, not a lower one.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Julian Assange in US Intel’s Company Town
20 Nov 2018
The Trump Justice Department seems to be preparing to do what the Obama Justice Department would not do: put Julian Assange on trial.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Suzy Hansen’s “Notes on a Foreign Country“and Carrie Bramen’s “American Niceness”
20 Nov 2018
How do Americans, especially white Americans, appear to the rest of the world, and are they really as “nice” as they think they are?
Colin Jenkins
Prisoner Prophet: Revisiting George Jackson's Analysis of Systemic Fascism
20 Nov 2018
Trump is not bringing fascism to America, but rather, fascism was built into the American project from day one.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap
20 Nov 2018
Self-help groups have revived the cooperative ethos, but small-scale projects can’t rescue Blacks from racism-plus-capitalism.
Thomas C. Mountain
Saying Goodbye to UN Sanctions Against Eritrea
20 Nov 2018
Like so many imperial projects, the US had to abandon its long campaign to crush socialist Eritrea through sanctions and defamation.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Prison Officials Encourage Recidivism
19 Nov 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner says prison officials don’t want to break the cycle of recidivism that sends former inmates back to confinement.