Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: George Washington, Slaveholder
16 Feb 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The “Father” of the nation was also one of the godfathers of the human bondage mafia, “among the quarter of American presidents who…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Ronald Reagan’s Demons
09 Feb 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The myth of Ronald Reagan's vast popularity during his actual terms as president is now all but written in stone, largely thanks to…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Mubarak’s Fall is Good News
02 Feb 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. corporate media put on a display of great concern for the situation in Egypt, but “the needs of the Egyptian people are…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Middle Class Means Working Class
26 Jan 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Economic disparities are more dramatic in the United States than any other developed country, yet most Americans have no idea what economic…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Walmart in New York City
19 Jan 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Walmart is making its big push on New York City, five years after overcoming furious resistance from labor and progressives in Chicago.…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Extremist Threat to Democracy
12 Jan 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The incendiary language deployed by Sarah Palin and her allies against even mild opponents of the rightwing agenda is sometimes described…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: White Supremacy in 2011
05 Jan 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The entire notion of the U.S. as a post-racial society is nonsensical, as even the most cursory review of the past year attests. Mississippi…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: A Whiter New York City
22 Dec 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Vast changes in urban demographics don’t just “happen” – people in power seeking profits cause them to occur. Just as government, developers…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama and Clinton, The Evil Twins
15 Dec 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The two corporate political twins, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, held forth at a joint White House press conference – so tightly matched…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Celebrating Secession
08 Dec 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists welcomed the Civil War, and John Brown gave his life attempting to kindle the armed conflict as the…