Political Economy

Gloria Tatum
Officer Claims He Feared for His Life from Naked, Unarmed Man
30 May 2018
“Hill was not aggressive, threatening, or hit anyone.”
Kevin Zeese
Venezuela: The Media Blockade
30 May 2018
“US sanctions have had the effect of causing the people to blame the United States and unify around Maduro and the current government.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Movement Needs to Bulk Up
28 May 2018
“If we are serious about overthrowing this system,” said Larry Hamm, of the Newark, New Jersey-based People’s Organization for Progress, “we’re going to have to build a mass moveme
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Super-Hero Comics and Black Empowerment
28 May 2018
Prof Turtel Onlihas been producing and marketing Black super-hero comic books for more than four decades, through his Chicago-based Onli Studios.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Ghastly Crimes of U.S. Empire -- Mumia and Co-Author’s New Book
28 May 2018
Stephen Vittoria is co-author with Mumia Abu Jamal of the new book, Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny – Book One.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Caucus Sells Out Its Constituents Again – to the Cops
23 May 2018
“This bill will be received as yet another attack on these communities and threatens to exacerbate what is already a discriminatory system of mass incarceratio
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: CIA and FBI Election Interference
23 May 2018
“The same forces which went after Trump will come after anyone else who is seen as a danger to the system.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Gaza: Grandstanding Around a Slow Motion Genocide
23 May 2018
“Israel is massacring Palestinian civilians again, but ‘the UN’—meaning the Security Council—has no power to stop it.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Defeat of US Imperialism is a Strategic Necessity, not a Single Issue
23 May 2018
“Anti-colonial nationalism is the antithesis of US imperial rule, which is predicated to the unmitigated corporate and military plunder of the planet.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Blain’s Set the World on Fire
23 May 2018
“It is impossible to understand, or even fully appreciate, how black women have shaped national and global politics today without knowing the larger history.”