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Bill Quigley
Behind The Walls
20 Jan 2011
Bill Quigley
I Feel Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Pain
16 Jul 2008
by Tom Grayman The author shares Rev. Jackson's frustration with Barack Obama, a central pillar of whose campaign is the "nonexistence" of Black America - a locale Obama nevertheless seems to criticize on each visit. In a constant effort to "put centrist whites at ease," Obama trots out his…
Bill Quigley
Remembering Cuba’s Sacrifice for African Liberation
15 Aug 2007
by Piero Gleijeses The American misinformation system blots out history in an instant. Nelson Mandela is now recognized as a world statesman, with barely an acknowledgement that only 20 years ago, the U.S. was in league with the white South African regime that held Mandela in perpetual…
Bill Quigley
Is Starvation Contagious?
16 Apr 2008
by John Maxwell
Bill Quigley
The US, Cuba and Moral Authority
29 Apr 2009
by Netfa Freeman Barack Obama dominates his Republican rivals here in the United States, but the international arena is a different venue, entirely. There, Obama carries the baggage of American presidents past – and any new encumbrances he might pick up on his own. Certainly, in a heads up…
Bill Quigley
Why Defame Cuba? A Congregant’s Plea to Rev. Jeremiah Wright
14 Apr 2010
by Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture Lots of unexpected names turned up as signatories to a letter charging the Cuban government with systematic discrimination against Blacks. Among those who committed the foul injustice against Cuba, and shamed themselves, was Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s former…
Bill Quigley
The Latin American Revolution, Part 3 of 4: Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador -- Shaking Off The U.S. Empire
29 Sep 2010
The US waged bloody wars in the 1970s and 80s to confine Nicaragua and El Salvador to its colonial "back yard." Although the victories of popular revolutions were partially rolled back, new governments with deep ties to popular forces have allied themselves with Cuba, which extricated…
Bill Quigley
Cuba’s Fight Against Racism in Health Care
29 Sep 2010
by Don Fitz The best evidence for the Cuban revolution’s strides in dismantling institutional racism is found in medical data, which show both Black and white Cubans living as long and at least as healthily as the average American. Cuba’s health care system recognizes that…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
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 high profile political killings of the Sixties can be understood apart from the larger matrix of…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama and Langston Hughes on “Grumblers” and “Merry Christmas”
24 Dec 2009
When US presidents offer us their holiday greeting messages, do we know what are they really saying? How hard can it be to figure that out? Langston Hughes died in 1967, but he knew what every US president, including Barack Obama is really saying, underneath and behind the mask. …