Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Fronting for Paramilitaries: Holder, Chaquita and Colombia
26 Nov 2008
by Mario A. Murillo Chiquita Brands was among the U.S. corporations that funded Colombia's rightwing death squads, organized under the umbrella of the United Self-Defense Groups. Known by its…
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African Americans, Peace and the Plight of Palestinians
26 Nov 2008
by Cynthia McKinney The former congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate charges that "Israel's lockdown of Gaza is keeping food, fuel, and medicine from civilians." But that's just…
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Obama Sells Out America's Youth and Defenders of Civil Liberties with Eric Holder
26 Nov 2008
by Richard Searcy Corporate media focus on Eric Holder's role in the effort to pardon billionaire fugitive Marc Rich: basically, a wealthy man's game. But the author reminds us that, as a U.S.…
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What Happy Thanksgiving?
26 Nov 2008
by Netfa Freeman Black Americans should be among the last to celebrate Thanksgiving, a mythology that seeks to absolve white settlers of their intentional eradication of Native Americans. "…
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Will Somalia Become Obama’s War?
26 Nov 2008
America's joint venture with Ethiopia to invade and occupy Somalia "was not so much an American attempt at regime change, as a cruel conspiracy to plunge Somalia back into the warlord-induced chaos…
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American Decline Will Be Worse Than U.S. Intelligence Agencies Fear
26 Nov 2008
"American intelligence agencies project that the United States will lose its position of world dominance by the year 2025." They don't know the half of it. Loss of dominance means the end of U.S.…
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Here's How It Works. Or Doesn't. You Donate, BAR Survives. You Don't and We Won't
21 Nov 2008
Back in the fall we arranged a deal with a progressive ad broker, which gets us less than a penny per visitor. That's better than nothing, but it is only a fraction of what Black Agenda…
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Holding Obama Accountable, Part 2 of a Series – Single Payer Health Care and the Auto Industry
19 Nov 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon In the second installment of this series, we examine the connection between the auto industry's crisis and single payer health care. Should the auto industry…
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President Obama and the Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: An Analysis
19 Nov 2008
by Ali Abunimah The optimism and symbolic significance of the election of the US's first black president are keenly felt in the Middle East. But undoing the damage several US administrations have…
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Odetta: A Legend for the Ages
19 Nov 2008
by Norman (Otis) Richmond The famed singer-activist Odetta was hospitalized over the weekend, suffering from kidney failure. Mr. Richmond, writing from Toronto, is a longtime student of…