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Bill Quigley
Chavez & the Rise of Black-Indian Power in Venezuela
20 Dec 2006
Black-Indian Power in Venezuela? Hugo Chavez “stands as a direct challenge to white domination of South American governments,” writes noted author William Loren Katz. “This former paratrooper seems to spring from a time when Africans and Indians armed and united to fight the first…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Clinton Family Pockets Haiti Assets in Telephone Company Privatization, Says Pumphrey
10 Mar 2010
A Black Agenda Radio interview by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. Backed by the might of the United States military and their own official positions, the Clinton power couple plus brother-in-…
Bill Quigley
For America's Scholars Of Race, An Obama Dilemma
20 Aug 2008
by Jonathan Tilove Will Barack Obama's presidential candidacy amount to a net positive for race relations in general and African American fortunes in particular? There is no consensus among scholars, interviewed by the Newhouse News Service. "Barack Obama, if elected, could be the salvation…
Bill Quigley
No, Mister! You Cannot Share My Pain!
20 Jan 2010
by John Maxwell French and Americans have conspired to humiliate and exploit Haiti throughout the history of the world's first Black republic. Now, in this time of catastrophe, they claim special relationships based on shared history. What outrageous, profane nonsense – as if the victim and…
Bill Quigley
Saving Jamaica: Revaluing People
30 Sep 2009
by John Maxwell “People who habitually describe other people as 'human resources' scare me,” writes the author. Disrespect for Jamaica's people – by the people's own government – has contributed to the flight of 80 percent of the island's graduates. A civil service exodus may be next. “We are being…
Bill Quigley
Jamaica Broadcasting is Born: A fi we! A no fi dem!
23 Jun 2009
by John Maxwell Veteran journalist John Maxwell was there at the beginning: 1959, the start of the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. “For the first time at last, it wasn't really necessary to listen to the BBC.” Successive governments, especially those of the Jamaica Labour Party, attempted to…
Bill Quigley
Jamaica, Feed Thyself
25 Nov 2009
by John Maxwell After five centuries of producing bananas and sugar for the profit of Europeans, Africa and the Caribbean must now embark on a breakneck campaign to produce food for their own hungry millions. That also means freeing th soil of the great “biocide,” Roundup. Roundup and its chemical…
Bill Quigley
The Pedophile and the Terrorist
06 Oct 2009
by John Maxwell The U.S. wants film director Roman Polanski extradited from Switzerland to face the music for his sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl, 30 years ago. Meanwhile, the U.S. harbors the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, wanted for numerous crimes over a long and murderous career,…
Bill Quigley
West Indies: 500 Years, 500 Lashes
06 Jan 2010
by John Maxwell Five centuriesof European domination has brought the world ever-increasing disparities in wealth and every other measure of the human condition. The rich nations and their servants preach a capitalist gospel that would condemn nations like Jamaica to centuries more of hell. “We are…
Bill Quigley
Let the IMF Die
29 Apr 2009
by C. Uzondu The International Monetary Fund, that instrument of torture deployed to strip developing nations of their ability to function as sovereign governments, is on it’s death bed. It should be allowed to die and be buried. Yet imperialist circles hope to resurrect the IMF under cover of the…