Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
How The Vicious U.S. Blockade of Cuba Really Works
19 Aug 2009
by Marta Veloz. Translation by Machetera. Has the Obama Administration really done anything to ease ithe nearly half century long blockade of Cuba? Machetera's translation of this article from…
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“You Gotta Get Your Mind Right”: Veterans for Peace
18 Aug 2009
by Mike Ferner A veteran anti-war activist calls for a politics of peace with justice. “Peace with justice means stopping the few from making policy for the many; from robbing us blind; denying our…
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US Supreme Court Orders New Hearing for Troy Davis
18 Aug 2009
by Jonathan Springston After having “narrowly avoided execution three times since July 2007,” Troy Davis got the barest whiff of justice when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a Georgia federal judge to…
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Progressives Should be Shutting Down These So-Called 'Health Care Town Meetings' Too
12 Aug 2009
By Dave Lindorff For the most part, the health care "town meetings" staged by members of Congress are shams designed to deceive and disinform the public on the possibilities and progress of health…
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Is Barack Obama Good For Black People? The Great Debate in Harlem, Part 2 of 2
12 Aug 2009
On June 25, hundreds of black America's formost thnkers and doers gathered at St. Mary's Church in Harlem NY to ask and answer the question of whether Barack Obama was good or bad for black America…
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The Misleaders
12 Aug 2009
by Henry D. Rose Black American politics has been deformed by the intrigues and insults of a misleadership class that collaborates with the enemy while launching “wholesale attacks on the moral…
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Whitewashing the Jobs Statistics
12 Aug 2009
by Lee A. Daniels Media repeat the pared down, sanitized jobless figures, even though they know the stats are misleading. “A truer picture of unemployment is to be drawn from including those…
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Miracle Cure?
12 Aug 2009
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. The Seven Foot Poet In this, the long awaited year of health care reform (or not) the Seven Foot Poet offers a potent cure for an insidious disease that has long…
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“In Cold Blood”: White Deputy’s Killing of Homeless Black Man Sparks Mild Protest in Obama-Mad Iowa City
11 Aug 2009
by Paul Street In what might be called “White Obamaland,” places like Iowa City, Iowa, “middle class 'liberals' and 'progressives' are proud of the support they gave to the nation’s first black…
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Margaret Kimberley is on Vacation
05 Aug 2009
BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley is on vacation. Her column, Freedom Rider, will return to these pages on Wednesday, September 9th. Ms.