Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Obama’s Priorities: War and Profits Over People
14 Jan 2009
by Chris Floyd It is not as if Barack Obama didn't warn us where he was headed. It's now official: Obama's administration will target "entitlements" for budgetary "overhaul." To the right, march…
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Mobbing the Constitution to Get At Blagojevich
14 Jan 2009
by Kevin Alexander Gray Roland Burris will finally get to put senatorial paraphernalia in his mausoleum, but the uproar over his appointment by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich continues to…
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Black Caucus Abandons King Legacy and Black Opinion, Votes For War on Gaza
14 Jan 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It's hard to believe that a generation ago, the Congressional Black Caucus was known as "the conscience of the congress, a political and moral high ground…
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Employee Free Choice Act Is Labor’s Last Chance
14 Jan 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. "The likelihood is that much of Obama's inner circle - top-heavy as it is with…
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Rev. Pinkney is “Banned” – Like in the Old South Africa
14 Jan 2009
The trials (literally) and tribulations of Benton Harbor, Michigan's Rev. Edward Pinkney give the lie to American claims of "race-neutrality." The activist minister has been stripped of most…
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Eshu’s blues: Obama’s message to the world: Let the U.S. ruling class pound you in the face
14 Jan 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez Obama is silent as the grave - Palestinian graves - about Gaza, but shoots off his mouth in what appears to be a prelude to war against Social Security. The "…
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Somalia: President Obama's Turn To Kill Africans
07 Jan 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. "The farcical, puppet Somali government installed by the Ethiopians and…
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Black Unionists Losing Share of Membership
07 Jan 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. "The decline in manufacturing has been cruel to Black workers, loosening what…
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Bankers and Military Hog Power Under Obama
07 Jan 2009
"In the current economic and imperial crisis, real power is exercised through the Treasury, which has been converted into an ATM for the once-rich and still powerful, and through the Pentagon…
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Reflections on Obama’s “Non-Ideological Pragmatism”
07 Jan 2009
Normal 0 by Paul Street The corporate media work hard to frame pro-business policies as the "practical" and "pragmatic" work of "centrist" and "non-partisan" politicians who can "get the job done…