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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Dr. King’s Televised Challenge to Obama: Tavis Smiley's Anti-War MLK
31 Mar 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Since the onset of the Obama phenomenon, Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth and death days have been “polluted” by false and ahistorical comparisons between Obama and MLK. The two men represent opposite political poles: one, a radical opponent of imperial war and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s CIA
31 Mar 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Global public opinion has been called the “second superpower” – second only to the United States in capacity to shape world events. But the premiere intelligence agency of the reigning state superpower routinely manipulates world opinion to suit…
Bill Quigley
A Comeback for Chattel Slavery? Remarkable Revelations from a Top Obama Aide
07 Apr 2010
by Geraldine Winstanley, AN political writer Hot off the presses: slavery is about to stage a return engagement, by presidential decree. “This and the president’s repeated visits to Africa have helped him develop a sense of slavery’s rich contribution to the development of what he calls ‘this…
Bill Quigley
Israel And Apartheid: By People Who Knew Apartheid
07 Apr 2010
Israel And Apartheid: By People Who Knew Apartheid Apartheid is an abomination to civilization, and a crime against humanity. That apartheid is the ruling order in Israel is beyond question – just ask those who know the diabolical system best.
Kamau Franklin
Does the Black President Owe Anything to the Black Community?
16 Mar 2011
by Kamau Franklin For the first time in generations, a presidential election campaign saw virtually no demands from the Black side of the electorate. Two years into Barack Obama’s term, a code of silence remains in force. “Are we so wrapped up in the symbolism of a black president that…
davidswanson
Is Obama Even Worse Than Bush?
16 Mar 2011
by David Swanson George Bush threatened and blustered, while President Obama’s m.o. is to “operate through deceptive propaganda.” But substantively, Obama pursues – and expands on – Bush’s policies, and adds new twists of his own. “Obama should be prosecuted for his crimes,” but “the reason I…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Japan’s Katrina
16 Mar 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Japan’s nuclear industry, which was never favored by majorities of the Japanese people, has been cracked, drowned and discredited by the earthquake and tsunami. Many U.S. reactors share the same design flaws and inherent dangers,…
Bill Quigley
I Wanna Be A Macho Man: The Prosperity Gospel According to Eddie Long
30 Sep 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson Allegations that Bishop Eddie Long lured young Black men to become his sexual playthings should come as no surprise, since his brand of “faith pimping spiritual ministry translates into emotional manipulation, psychological control, and sexual exploitation.”…
Bill Quigley
President Obama and the Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: An Analysis
19 Nov 2008
by Ali Abunimah The optimism and symbolic significance of the election of the US's first black president are keenly felt in the Middle East. But undoing the damage several US administrations have done over a generation, and particularly that done by the Bush-Cheney regime will be a tall order.…
Bill Quigley
Odetta: A Legend for the Ages
19 Nov 2008
by Norman (Otis) Richmond The famed singer-activist Odetta was hospitalized over the weekend, suffering from kidney failure. Mr. Richmond, writing from Toronto, is a longtime student of revolutionary culture. He attended a performance by the 77-year-old icon, last month.