Political Economy

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Puerto Rico Crippled Before Hurricane Hit
12 Dec 2017
Harsh austerity measures imposed by a federal financial oversight board set Puerto Rico up for disaster, said Lara Merling, a researcher for the Washington-based Center for Economi
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Universities Nurtured Ideology of Slavery
12 Dec 2017
A group of Black students at the University of Chicago is demanding the institution acknowledge its financial roots in the slave system and make reparations to the Black community.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Blacks, War and the Phony “Resistance”
07 Dec 2017
“The Democrats are ‘all in’ for the Pentagon, including a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Barbuda and Disaster Capitalism
06 Dec 2017
“Barbudans are rightly suspicious that ultimately their paradise of equality for all will be taken away in favor of capitalist predation.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Intercept Attacks WikiLeaks on Behalf of Democrats
06 Dec 2017
“WikiLeaks has done humanity a service by exposing the Democratic Party as but another organ of the rich.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is Not Papa Africa Saving Slaves
06 Dec 2017
“Migrants deported from Israel to Rwanda in 2014 and 2015 have been horrifically abused and trafficked back to the Mediterranean.”
Ryan Singel
The FCC is Delivering the Internet to Corporate Control
06 Dec 2017
“Non-mainstream media news sources across the political spectrum would no longer be able to afford to compete in the marketplace of ideas.”
Thabi Myeni
South Africa: Facebook is Still Censoring Black Activists
06 Dec 2017
“Black people from all over the world must come together and organize and mobilize against Facebook, on Facebook.”
Vijay Prashad
Libya Is Home to a 21st-Century Slave Market But the UN Security Council Won’t Act
06 Dec 2017
“Libya has become a marketplace for the trafficking of human beings.”
Ben Norton
Media Erase NATO Role in Bringing Slave Markets to Libya
06 Dec 2017
“Militants in the rebel stronghold of Misrata referred to themselves as ‘the brigade for purging slaves, black skin.’”