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Bill Quigley
U.S. “Quantitative Easing” is Fracturing the Global Economy
04 Nov 2010
by Dr. Michael Hudson Dr. Michael Hudson is one of the economists who predicted the bursting of the housing bubble and the ensuing global financial crisis. Black Agenda Report is privileged to reprint his latest offering, orginally published at Global Research, explaining the pernicious…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Olympics and Rio's Black Poor
06 Oct 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The gentry-pursued Black and poor population of Chicago got a reprieve from the Olympic committee last week. Now it's Rio de Janeiro's turn to invent clever ways to clear out the shantytowns so the games…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: America Kills Peace
27 May 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Nothing scares the United States more than the possibility that peace might break out. Turkey and Brazil committed an unforgiveable sin, by finding a way to resolve questions about Iran’s nuclear fuel stocks. The U.S. pushed the…
Bill Quigley
Economic Inequality: The Foundation of the Racial Divide
01 Apr 2009
by Dedrick Mohammed Today’s economic inequality is the direct result of Europe’s 500-year-long subjugation of the rest of the planet’s inhabitants. Even when corrective measures are undertaken, such as in the New Deal response to the Great Depression, widening economic disparity is often reinforced…
Bill Quigley
Bahia, Brazil,1798: The Revolution of the Black Jacobins
27 Feb 2008
by Mário Maestri Brazil, with the largest Black population outside of Africa, once showed promise of becoming a planetary powerhouse of racial equality and social democracy. In the revolutionary period following France's declaration of the "Rights of Man," Brazilians of all hues and…
Bill Quigley
Black Consciousness in Brazil
16 Nov 2010
by Italo Ramos New census data show two million more Brazilians now describe themselves as black than did so ten years ago, when “they had said that they were not blacks, but 'mestiços' or 'mulattos,' a category more favored, socially.” This is, the author believes, a significant number, proof…
Bill Quigley
Extra Judicial Killings in Guyana: “Champion of the Earth” Presides Over Death Squad Regime
19 May 2010
by the National Resistance In the Theatre of the Absurd anything is possible. And so it is that Guyana’s President, Bharrat Jagdeo, is among six winners from government, science, business and entertainment to be awarded this year’s United Nations Champion of the Earth prize, for leadership in…
Bill Quigley
Let them eat Croissants!
13 Aug 2008
by John Maxwell The author, a renowned environmentalist as well as veteran journalist, bemoans Jamaica's failure to make the right development decisions at the right time. Kingston Harbor is being prepared to receive supercargo ships from the far East, yet "soaring energy costs are…
Bill Quigley
If Bush-Cheney Can’t Be Impeached, Nobody Can
20 Jun 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford By allowing the opportunity to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney to slip away, Democratic Leadership - and the ineffectual Congressional Black Caucus - are complicit in the death of the rule of law in the United States.…
Bill Quigley
Barack Obama: More Like King Herod Than Joshua
30 May 2007
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford