Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: “Can you defend yourself?”
04 Feb 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez The social disintegration endemic to late capitalism in America reaches new lows in the current meltdown. The purposely de-skilled classes turn on each other,…
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Is Black GOP Chairmanship a Victory For Black People?
04 Feb 2009
If Black faces in high places are collective victories for African Americans, then Michael Steele's rise to chairman of the Republican National Committee is a plus. By the same logic, we are…
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The Imperial Obama is Frustrated on Zimbabwe
04 Feb 2009
The Obama administration was eager "to show its fangs against Mugabe in Africa" and seethed when its offensive against Zimbabwe's government was blunted by a power-sharing agreement. US Ambassador to…
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U.S. Corporate Media Propaganda Machine
04 Feb 2009
A study by the media watchdog group FAIR shows how four of the most influential U.S. newspapers "use their editorial pages to put Venezuela in a negative human rights light, while glossing over Latin…
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House Democratic Leader Declares National Health Care Legislation “Off The Table” This Year
28 Jan 2009
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon What does it mean when leading House Democrats, and apparently the White House repudiate their own campaign promises to enact a universal-coverage national…
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Barack Obama's Not-So Non-Ideological Inaugural Address
28 Jan 2009
by Paul Street The new president dismisses "ideology" in order to promote his own brand of neo-liberalism. He is a partisan in the corporate war-against-all who slimes the opposition as purveyors of…
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Eshu’s blues: Obama scabs on the autonomy of Palestine-and the rest of us
28 Jan 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez President Obama, if he were truly "the humanitarian he pretends to be, would be upholding the Geneva Convention, and condemning the State of Israel before the…
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Why An A**Hole is Always in Charge
28 Jan 2009
by Greg Palast Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain is a man who can parlay catastrophic business failure into mind-blowing personal enrichment. After reducing the company to worthlessness, he sold…
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Cynthia McKinney: "Mr. President: Give Us a Clean Break from War"
28 Jan 2009
"The American people voted for change and peace," says the Green Party's recent presidential candidate. "President Obama's current path will produce neither." Former Georgia Congresswoman…
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The Great Black Hajj of 2009
28 Jan 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The huge inaugural gathering on the Washington Mall - two million people, about half of them African American - resembled nothing so much as a Hajj. The assembled…