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Bill Quigley
The Grant Park Dream Has Died
20 May 2009
by Paul A. Moore What a difference four months make. On November 4, 2008, tears "tears flowed like a mighty river" from half a million pairs of eyes in Chicago's Grant Park, where Barack Obama made his victory speech. Today, "Obama has no intention of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and…
Bill Quigley
Obamanity: The Religion of Complicity
03 Jun 2009
by Solomon Comissiong More than 100 days into Barack Obama's presidency, the "lives of the majority of African-Americans who voted for him are unchanged." Yet, his supporters continue to cling to a thin band of hope. Had John McCain become president and proceeded to vastly expand the "Af-Pak"…
Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: Launching a Teacher’s Fightback Newsletter in Seattle
22 Jun 2010
by michael hureaux perez If there is one organized force with the potential to resist Barack Obama’s corporate offensive, it is the teachers unions. Yet the multi-million-member American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association seem not to understand that they have been…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
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 executive for educational business affairs, Arne Duncan, is free to treat the nation's schools as his “…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Chicago Teachers Win Discrimination Lawsuit Against Arne Duncan's Mass Firings
07 Oct 2010
Back in June of 2009, BAR told the story of activist teachers who sued the Chicago Public Schools to reverse the firings of hundreds of committed, experienced, mostly black and female teachers in dozens of schools and their replacement with less experienced, younger, whiter teachers at lower…
Bill Quigley
Is Barack Obama Bad for Racial Justice?
06 Oct 2010
by Paul Street For a long list of reasons, the answer is Yes, the net effect of Obama’s presidency has been to weaken the forces for racial justice in the United States. A prime example: “The Obama presidency has convinced a significant number of black Americans – long the leftmost ethno-…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Rwanda Crisis Could Expose U.S. Role in Congo Genocide
01 Sep 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Left writers have been reporting for years that U.S. allies Rwanda and Uganda bear primary responsibility for the deaths of as many as six million Congolese. Now a leaked United Nations report has confirmed that Rwanda’s crimes in Congo may rise to the level of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Phony Terror and Black America
13 Jun 2006
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Bush men's scheme to conquer the world, starting with Iraq, is dead in the water, having been thwarted by the Iraqi resistance. However, the domestic component of the offensive continues to roll up a body count of hapless "terror" suspects…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Middle Class Means Working Class
26 Jan 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Economic disparities are more dramatic in the United States than any other developed country, yet most Americans have no idea what economic class they belong to. Class war rages, but the losers don’t realize they are under assault, or by…
Bill Quigley
Political Prisoners in America
18 Aug 2010
by Stephen Lendman Besides race – but inextricably linked to it – the existence of political prisoners is among the biggest taboos in American life. "The United States is very, very concerned when its citizens begin to raise questions in these international forums, because (America) still prefers…