Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Barack Obama the War Monger
08 Aug 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Senator from Illinois masquerades as a "peace candidate" - and then proposes the Americans invade Pakistan, the only Muslim nation that has The Bomb. After the…
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The Black Sites: A Rare Look Inside the CIA's Secret Interrogation Program
08 Aug 2007
by Jane Mayer The CIA went into an intensive learning curve when 9/11 hit. They had to learn how to torture, to extract information for the politicians who needed to explain and finance their…
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Conyers’ Contradictory Stances on Impeachment, Reparations
01 Aug 2007
by David Swanson The venerable Rep. John Conyers has long been among the most progressive members of the U.S. House. Now chairman of the Judiciary Committee, where impeachment proceedings must…
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The Troubled Birth of the National Civil Rights Museum
01 Aug 2007
by The Honorable D'Army Bailey, BAR contributing editor The man who rescued Memphis' Lorraine Motel, site of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, from decline and ultimate sale to developers,…
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Immigration and Military Enlistment: The Pentagon's Push for the DREAM Act Heats Up
01 Aug 2007
by Jorge Mariscal About 8,000 permanent resident aliens already enlist in the U.S. military every year, an influx that partially offsets the dramatic drop in Black recruitment since…
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Welcome to Richistan, USA
01 Aug 2007
by Paul Harris U.S. presidents are fond of beginning their speeches with the phrase, "My fellow Americans." However, in recent decades, and especially since George W. Bush seized the White House…
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Cynthia McKinney Confronts Corporate Media Malice in Court
01 Aug 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The American judicial system is not the place to seek Black liberation or redress, but it can serve to put our grievances on the record. The Atlanta Journal-…
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Greens Put Mass Incarceration at Top of Agenda, While Democrats Mumble
01 Aug 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Green Party, once perceived by many Blacks as a club for white counterculturalists, now champions an end to racially selective…
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Thoughts on Virginia Tech and Racism
25 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Jeanette M. Pollard The Virginia Tech massacre of three months ago remains the subject of task force investigations. But none appear to be examining the role that race…
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Losing What We Never Had: White Privilege and the Deferred Dreams of Black America, Part Three
25 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Dr. Edward Rhymes In the final installment of his series, the author debunks the mythology of "reverse racism" - a phrase that "needs to be done away with." Privileges…