Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
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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The Other America
14 Jan 2009
A speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The civil rights leader's speech at Stanford University, April 14, 1967. "[T]here are hundreds of thousands of Negroes who have given up. They've lost…
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Let Gaza Live!
14 Jan 2009
by Cynthia McKinney The Green Party presidential candidate's Washington speech on Israel's savage assault on Gaza: "A new day is coming in U.S. politics. We will use the power of our vote…
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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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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…
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Who is Black America’s Moral Emissary to the World?
07 Jan 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The global reputation of Black America has suffered greatly under George Bush, who deployed Black faces as fronts for his vicious brand of U.S.…
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Desperately Seeking Obama
07 Jan 2009
by Dr. Sunera Thobani "That Obama chooses to remain silent" on Israeli savaging of Gaza "is nothing short of cowardice." Even before he is sworn into office, Obama's stature is diminished; he…