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Loïc Wacquant
From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, the Role of Prisons in American Society
30 Jan 2008
by Loïc Wacquant Is America's emerging prison state a revival or an extension of slavery? Is it "a New Jim Crow"? Or is it something arising out of those experiences, but significantly different, a brand new phase in the history of African America? Historian Loic Wacquant here…
Bill Quigley
Bars and Bills for Burge: BAR Morning Shot Mon., Jan. 31st
01 Feb 2011
The Real News Network
A Real Economist (Michael Hudson) Explains Why HIgher Taxes, Not Lower Ones, Create Jobs
02 Feb 2011
by the Real News Network Barack Obama and the bipartisan quacks of Wall Street and corporate media keep telling us that lower taxes on the wealthy create jobs, the exact opposite of what real economists have known for ages. For a dose of economic sanity, Paul Jay of The Real News Network…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Mubarak’s Fall is Good News
02 Feb 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S. corporate media put on a display of great concern for the situation in Egypt, but “the needs of the Egyptian people are never even mentioned in these discussions.” For Egyptians, Mubarak’s ouster would be an unmitigated…
Bill Quigley
Music Education in Detroit's Public Schools: The Struggle to Survive
15 Jun 2010
by George Shirley Please, don’t stop the music. That’s the theme sounded by a host of Detroit citizens, as budget cutters move to shut down most of the Motor City’s public school music program. Under the new regime, only students with high test scores would be eligible to take part in music…
Bill Quigley
Reverse Images: The Acrimonious Debate on Race in Cuba
23 Dec 2009
by Jean Damu Cuba is racist, says a letter signed by 60 African American and Afro-Latin notables. Undoubtedly, “racism exists in Cuba, just as it does in every other country on the planet, especially the United States.” And just as surely, those who signed the letter have put their reputations in…
Bill Quigley
AFRICOM and the ICC: Enforcing international justice in Africa?
02 Jun 2010
by Samar Al-Bulushi and Adam Branch The United States, which has never joined the International Criminal Court for fear that it might be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, is gearing up to use the ICC as a pretext to act as world gendarme. “The ICC risks becoming the latest pawn of US…
Bill Quigley
D-Town: African American Farmers, Food Security and Detroit
22 Jun 2010
The Black metropolis of Detroit is, in many respects, a “food desert” where “both economic and physical barriers stand between people and their access to healthy and affordable foods.” But D-Town activists believe the people can grow and organize themselves out of the desert, through urban…
Bill Quigley
Prisoners on Their Own Island: An Interview With Ashley Smith on Haiti and the NGOs
02 Feb 2011
by Mike Whitney The United States and its allies, France and Canada, are on a neocolonial mission in Haiti, “and in many cases have made conditions in Haiti worse over the last year.” The 10,000 NGOs that infest the country “are part and parcel of imperial domination of third world…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
"Mongrel”: Historically, and from Obama’s Mouth
04 Aug 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama behaves as if he has no historical or cultural knowledge of “the nation over which he presides.” The president’s labeling of African Americans as “mongrels” reveals an astounding and fundamental disrespect for Black Americans as a distinct people. As…