US Politics

Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley
Marxism and Black Liberation w/Frank Chapman
05 Jan 2022
Author and organizer Frank Chapman joins Margaret Kimberley and Danny Haiphong to discuss his new book Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why We Must Defend Julian Assange
14 Dec 2021
Julian Assange is one of the political prisoners that the US claims not to have.
Black Agenda Review
Essay: Lynch Law in America, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1900
14 Dec 2021
Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s “Lynch Law in America” remains a compelling account of white violence as both savage and systemic, and of the US as irredeemable.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On the Fundamental Differences Between Capitalist “Democracy” and Socialist Democracy
14 Dec 2021
The United States recent democracy summit would have been laughable if its implications were not so serious.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Humanitarian Hawks Demand War on Ethiopia, National Guard Deploys to the Horn
14 Dec 2021
News of the deployment of National Guard troops to an unspecified location in the Horn of Africa is an indication that US interference in the region will continue.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Extinction
14 Dec 2021
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Richard Medhurst and Roberto Sirvent
U.S. Corporate Media Watch: An Interview with Richard Medhurst
14 Dec 2021
Richard and Roberto would like to dedicate this feature to Glen Ford, one of the fiercest critics of U.S. corporate media the country has ever known.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Black Misleadership Class Attempts to Obfuscate their Carceral State Correlation with the Bogeyman of “white wokeness"
14 Dec 2021
At a time that we need more justice and access to democracy, the Black Misleadership Class is fighting for more prisons and tawdry police reforms under the guise of equity and Black liberation.
Hamed Aleaziz
An Internal Document Shows DHS Officials Advised Against Haitian Deportations, Fearing They Could Violate Human Rights Obligations
14 Dec 2021
A Department of Homeland Security internal document acknowledges that deportations of Haitian asylum seekers are in violation of US law.
Chris Hedges
The Execution of Julian Assange
14 Dec 2021
Julian Assange committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes.