Political Economy

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Russsiagate” and the Collapse of Obama’s War Against Syria
14 Dec 2017
“Putin exposed the U.S. alliance with al Qaida on the world stage.”
Ken Morgan
Blacks and the Alabama U.S. Senatorial Race
13 Dec 2017
“The capitalist moribund two-party electoral politics takes us down a dead-end road.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: When Police Kill White People
13 Dec 2017
“Are whites so committed to the modern day slave patrol that they will allow no one justice, even those who look like them?”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Sexual Assault Scandals, Russia-baiting, and the Crumbling Empire
13 Dec 2017
“The discourse on sexual assault has been kept a bourgeois affair.”
Mark P. Fancher
Christmas and the Contradictions of Capitalists Who Celebrate It
13 Dec 2017
“Oppressed communities around the world need to divorce themselves from empires.”
Caitlin Johnstone
The Entire Russian Hacking Narrative Is Invalidated In This Single Assange Tweet
13 Dec 2017
“This cannot possibly be an actual investigation into an actual allegation.”
Morgan Humphrey
The Assassinations, Hyper-Surveillance and Harassment of Blacks is Just Business as Usual for Law Enforcement
13 Dec 2017
“The drug war is the justification to create a police state of black and Latinx communities.”
Auditi Guha
New Study Shows Flint Water Affects Baby Weight
13 Dec 2017
“It was a very sharp reduction in birth weight.”
Harvey Wasserman
Warring Visions of Puerto Rico's Future
13 Dec 2017
“This is an opportunity to make microgrids in Puerto Rico so they can be sustained in different areas.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Thanks His Supporters
12 Dec 2017
Activists gathered in Philadelphia to march, attend teach-ins and demand freedom for Mumia Abu Jamal, who has spent 35 years behind bars in the death of a policeman.