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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Georgia Dept of Corrections Withholding Medical Care to Brutalized Inmates, Retaliatory Campaign Continues
22 Mar 2011
From the correspondence of their attorney and the testimony of their families and friends, details are emerging which indicate a still ongoing campaign of brutal beatings and withheld medical care in the wake of the December 2010 inmate strike in Georgia prisons. Does the fact that the Georgia…
Bill Quigley
Lawless Capital, Rushing to Armageddon
17 Nov 2008
The rule of law has been cast aside in the mad frenzy to loot the wealth of a nation before George Bush leaves office. "Wall Street has succeeded in establishing a kind of privatized martial law economic regime," in which trillions of dollars are secretly transferred to unnamed corporations. We'…
Bill Quigley
Obama, King and Kennedy: Empire and the “End” of Racism
21 Jan 2009
An interview with Juan Santos In claiming that Blacks had “already come 90 percent of the way” to equality, candidate Barack Obama employed “strategy and tactics that served white racism and served to deeply harm peoples of color by erasing our conditions of life from the imagination of the…
Bill Quigley
Jamaica for Sale
17 Nov 2008
Tourism is Jamaica's biggest source of foreign exchange, but tourist dollar madness threatens to destroy the country. "The hotels are closing down turtle nesting sites and hotel excrement and spoil are killing our reefs at an increasing pace." While the government entertains all manner of…
Bill Quigley
Holding the Obama Administration Accountable, Part 1 of a Series
12 Nov 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon With the election results a week old, the worst thing we can do now is sit back for too long admiring the new president, his family and ourselves for electing him, and "wait and see what he does." No new administration waits till being sworn in before…
Bill Quigley
Critical Thinking Amid the Elation
17 Nov 2008
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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama and Lieberman: Two of a Kind
19 Nov 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Why did Barack Obama save Joe Lieberman from being stripped of his top committee chairmanship? The short answer is, the two men "are equally cynical." The most rightwing Democrat in the Senate actively campaigned for McCain/Palin, "believes in…
Bill Quigley
Dear ‘Brother President’: Embrace Liberation Theology
12 Nov 2008
by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr. The author congratulates the president-elect on his having run a “great…eloquent, dignified, and clean race,” but then admonishes: “You blew a tremendous teaching opportunity in teaching America about Liberation Theology when you put some distance between you…
Bill Quigley
Black Joblessness: Never a Priority
12 Nov 2008
"Black unemployment levels are almost never considered to be intolerable - that is, a problem of such magnitude it demands fixing." We're sorry, but the audio of this BA Radio commentary is no longer available.
Bill Quigley
Somalia: The Specter of Detrimental Trusteeship
12 Nov 2008
by Abukar Arman Somalia, invaded and occupied by Ethiopia with the encouragement of the United States, is now to be reduced to a "trusteeship" of Addis Ababa, the aggressor. "This is a case of putting the fox in charge of the barn so that he may teach the chicken how to function in an…