Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Backwards with Obama
20 Oct 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama has a peculiar effect on other world leaders: he causes them to regress on climate change and to revert to racist type in relations…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Michelle’s Family Tree
13 Oct 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Strange things happen when members of the oppressed and despised group rise to power and fame. Their backgrounds are magnified, yet still remain…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama Disses Black Politicians
06 Oct 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The first Black president, having just smacked down New York state's first Black governor, refuses to endorse the Democrat who would be New York…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama Knows Best
30 Sep 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The youthful Barack Obama was a strange variety of “community organizer” - he didn't like protests. Obama's feelings haven't changed in the…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Iran’s Right to Exist
22 Sep 2009
by editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama has the uncanny ability to achieve Bush-like ends by much smoother means. He announces a compromise on missile defense systems in…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: In Praise of Tea Baggers
16 Sep 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Right shows far more eagerness for a fight than the hapless Left, or what remains of it. Barack Obama “smacks down” progressives like gnats…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Obama Plots Against Children
09 Sep 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The only beneficiaries of President Obama's educational policies “will be the testing and charter school corporations.” The president's top…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Unemployment Ignored
28 Jul 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The damage inflicted on Black America since the economic meltdown is absolutely unprecedented in modern times – but African Americans have yet to…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: American War Criminals
15 Jul 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States could fill scores of International Criminal Courts with homegrown war criminals, but prefers to honor them as “statesmen” and “…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Silence on Cynthia McKinney
08 Jul 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The shallowness of what passes for Black leadership reveals itself most dramatically at times of outrage and death. “While Cynthia McKinney…