Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Poverty: Policies and Possibilities
10 Dec 2008
Normal 0 by Shannon Prince Regulation of industry can be a very good thing, but requiring licenses to braid hair is oppressive…
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Obama’s ‘Center-Right’ Presidency: The Die is Cast
10 Dec 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In case there are any lingering doubts, it's official: Barack Obama has earned a well-deserved rating of "center-right" politician, courtesy of the New York…
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Somalia Ought To Be Obama's Litmus Test
10 Dec 2008
by Sadia Ali Aden The test of Barack Obama's policies in Africa and worldwide begins with his handling of the war against Somalia, his inheritance from George Bush. The "world's worst…
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Obama Revitalizes Disaster Capitalism: The Shock Doctrine Receives a Make-Over
03 Dec 2008
by Carolyn Baker The president-elect's "adherence to neoliberal, globalist policies couched in the rhetoric of ‘change' but offering no substantial departure from the ultimate strategies of…
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The Great Land Giveaway: Neo-Colonialism by Invitation
03 Dec 2008
by James Petras Newly emerging nations have joined with the usual neocolonial suspects in a massive bid to buy up poorer countries' available land. How do they pull it off? "The process of agro…
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The Human Zoo: Making Jamaica Fit For Foreign Corporations
03 Dec 2008
by John Maxwell Jamaica is going to "borrow money to destroy the integrity of Jamaica's loveliest town, dilapidated though it may be now, in the interest of a foreign corporation." After…
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The White, White House Press Corps
03 Dec 2008
by Sam Fulwood III Black White House reporters are dwindling, even as the nation's first Black president prepares to move in. "We are going to integrate the Oval Office long before we integrate…
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Liar, Liar!! Barack Obama's Secretary of War
02 Dec 2008
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Some Obama supporters are wringing their hands over the selection of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Hillary was, after all, a consistent…
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The Neo-Yeltsin Administration? The Obama Letdown
30 Nov 2008
by Michael Hudson Although president-elect Barack Obama ran on a promise of "change", explains economist Michael Hudson, one has to look awfully hard and more than a little wishfully at his…
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A Little Matter of Genocide
26 Nov 2008
an audio speech by Ward Churchill Until recently, scholars have taught generations of American youth that there were at most a million natives in what is now the continental US when Europeans…