Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Black Leadership In the Age of Obama: Motown's New Mayor Unilaterally Ends Almost All Union Contracts
20 Oct 2009
By Diane Bukowski For decades unionized jobs, especially those in the public sector have provided a precarious foothold in the middle class for those black families lucky enough to have them.…
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Can Democrats Avoid a Populist Health Care Rebellion?
20 Oct 2009
by Kevin Zeese Democratic leadership is committing political suicide by attempting to force all Americans to buy shoddy insurance policies from profiteering private corporations. Already,…
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Highlights of the SleptOn.TV White House Press Conference on Obama's Receipt of Nobel Peace Prize
20 Oct 2009
by SleptOn.TV Nobody, the president said, was more surprised than him. Nobody except maybe Henry "the Christmas Bomber" Kissinger. Slept)n.TV brings us their version of the White House…
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Obama's New Katrina Recovery Bucks Less Than One Week's Worth of War in Afghanistan
20 Oct 2009
by Patrick Martin Last week's drive-by to New Orleans showed President Obama at his public relations worst, inviting comparisons to his predecessor in the White House. Obama lectured and insulted…
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True Crime: White Privilege and a Police Killing in an Obama-Mad College Town
20 Oct 2009
by Paul Street Iowa City, Iowa went wild for Barack Obama in '08, earning a reputation among it's more conservative neighbors as “The People’s Republic of Johnson County.” But when a white deputy…
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Education Reform's Rule Number One: Blame The Teachers
20 Oct 2009
by Kesi Bem Foster Teacher union-bashing has become a sport among the business class and their minions in both major parties. Teachers unions, it is claimed, keep “bad” educators on the job, doing…
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Sit-ins in 9 Cities Begin To Put Single Payer Back On The Table
16 Oct 2009
Thursday in Phoenix and Portland, in Los Angeles and Washington DC and five other cities across the nation 54 people were arrested while many hundreds more conducted nonviolent demonstrations outside…
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A Nobel Worthy Effort: Ending Youth Violence From Chicago to Afghanistan
12 Oct 2009
by Jesse Hagopian The White House kicked off its national initiative against youth violence in Chicago, but community activists charge Administration school policies have exacerbated the mayhem on…
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Riots, Real Estate, and Selective Memory
12 Oct 2009
by Beryl Satter Wall Street's subprime mortgage assault on Black America threatens to wipe out a generation of African American equity, but it's not the first time. The FHA-HUD scandals of the 1970s…
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Beyond Science Fiction: Europe’s False Claims to Civilization and the Coming Attack on Iran
12 Oct 2009
by Henry D. Rose The U.S. and Israel, the “most aggressive” nations in the world, routinely commit crimes against international law and civilized norms. Yet they feel quite comfortable in claiming…