Political Economy

Ellen Brown
The War on the Post Office
21 Mar 2018
“Postal banking can be profitable through economies of scale and the elimination of profit-taking middlemen, as postal banks globally have demonstrated.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Confronting Black-Immigrant Conflicts
20 Mar 2018
“Immigrants have been increasingly criminalized by the state in ways that are very similar to African Americans,” said Dr.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mass Incarceration With No End?
20 Mar 2018
Although US incarceration rates have been going down in recent years, at the current pace it would take 75 years to cut the prison population in half, according to Nazgol Ghandnoosh
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Slavery Was Uniquely Capitalist
20 Mar 2018
Even on the left, the capitalist nature of US slavery is not well understood, said historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Going Down With the Bad Ship U.S.A.
15 Mar 2018
“All that it can offer to the emerging nations of the world is a bad example and the threat of annihilation.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize Awarded to Charles Onana and Phil Taylor
14 Mar 2018
“She is risking her life to challenge the Kagame regime, and any challenge to our own government is up to us.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with John Sibley
14 Mar 2018
“A capitalist does not think that just your existence in-the-world is a contribution.”
Netfa Freeman
Zimbabwe Open for Business, Code for International Finance Capitalism
14 Mar 2018
“Zimbabwe’s new president offered an open invitation to international capital investment and latecomers for Zimbabwe’s trek down the neoliberal development road.”
Gregory Duff Morton
Blood on the Land in Brazil
14 Mar 2018
“The crimes appear to follow a simple, grim logic: kill the leaders.”
Ken Morgan
Black Women and International Women’s Day
14 Mar 2018
“Alongside Assata and Rosa and Harriet and Sojourner, let’s celebrate Grace Campbell, of the Blood Brotherhood and the Communist Party.”