Political Economy

Yash Tandon
WTO is a War Machine
23 Sep 2015
by Yash Tandon The World Trade Organization, controlled by a new empire that still disfavors the Global South, broadens the gap between influential and developing nations. With a neocolonial system…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Mom, Is it War Yet? – Part II: Two Suns in the Sunset
09 Sep 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson The United States has been under no threat from any other nation since the end of World War Two, but has invented various menaces to mask its own unrelenting quest for world…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Organizing, Not Activism: Chicago's Dyett HS Hunger Strikers Mark 11th Day Resisting Closing & Privatization of Their School
28 Aug 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Activism is showing up, speaking out, demonstrating here, tweeting there, disrupting that and blogging that. But activists are only responsible to themselves.…
Rob Urie
America, Race and the Economics of the Precipice
19 Aug 2015
by ROB URIE In neoliberal America, race, class and the naked greed of ruling elites intent on reducing ever-increasing numbers to permanent debt and penury have brought us to the brink of ruin…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
US Imperialism’s Decline is the Driving Force of History, Not It’s Growth
04 Aug 2015
by Danny Haiphong The U.S imperial order is in a terminal state. Despite its overwhelming conventional military strength, the Empire needs the services of jihadist terrorists to promote its policies…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Aug 3, 2015
04 Aug 2015
Predator Cops Fill Graveyards U.S. police killed 412 people in 1976, 333 in 1984, and 385 in 1990, wrote Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay now republished for…
Dawn Gibson
Rockcat Stadium “Development” Blasted by Glen Ford
01 Aug 2015
Rockcat Stadium “Development” Blasted by Glen Ford by the editors
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
A Brief Reflection on the Relationship Between Syriza and Bernie Sanders
22 Jul 2015
by Danny Haiphong The Greek Syriza party and Bernie Sanders’ U.S. presidential campaign have something in common: neither has any intention to challenge the global capitalist system. “Syriza began…
This Is Hell
Pretenders To Radicalism: How Syriza Betrayed Greece
22 Jul 2015
by our friends at This Is Hell Radio Remember the orgy of wishful thinking at the beginning of the Obama era? Did the Greek people invest similar unfounded hopes in a party led by pretenders?…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 20, 2015
21 Jul 2015
Mumia “May Have Been Poisoned” Six months after Mumia Abu Jamal nearly died from diabetic shock, the nation’s best known political prisoner’s underlying illness has yet to be diagnosed, said Dr.…