Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Show Trial
03 Feb 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In order that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be denied even the formalities of American justice as we once knew it, the system itself must be eviscerated…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Useless Aid, No Donation Without Agitation
27 Jan 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “The time has come for a new paradigm: No donation without agitation.” The United States has succeeded in plunging mainstream disaster “relief”…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Harold Ford Returns
13 Jan 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley He was the George Bush crowd’s favorite Democrat, and he loved them back. Harold “The Prince” Ford, Jr. “never missed an opportunity to score…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: America’s Terror
07 Jan 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. assigns to itself the right to slaughter civilians and children wherever it chooses on the planet, yet howls in outrage when its…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Guantanamo, Illinois
23 Dec 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In many respects, a year of President Barack Obama feels much the same as...a year of George Bush. Wars metastasize, prisons migrate from Cuba to…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: “War is Peace” Prize
16 Dec 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama is nothing if not a man of “firsts.” America’s first Black president has earned the dubious honor of possibly having delivered the…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Progressives Still Love Obama
09 Dec 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama talks excellent Bush-speak, a language he becomes more fluent in each day. Mouthing Bushisms, Obama told a television audience “…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Peace Prize War
02 Dec 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The American information bubble prevents the populace from recognizing the world around it. Iran's leader, constantly demonized in the “bubble…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: President Sarah Palin
25 Nov 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Smug Democrats love to imagine they are a species apart from Sarah Palin, the “pit bull with lipstick.” However, U.S. political history teaches…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Assassination
18 Nov 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 was rooted in previous crimes and created a cascade of subsequent crimes. Indeed, none of the…