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Bill Quigley
Congolese People Sacrificed for International Games and Profits
12 Nov 2008
by Roxanne Stasyszyn The war that has already cost 5.5 million Congolese their lives has been rekindled, the ghastly product of "a rapacious international commerce that has descended on Congo." Amidst the carnage, displacement and starvation, international "humanitarian" outfits navigate, "…
Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: Obama won. Now whatcha gonna do?
12 Nov 2008
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Bill Quigley
Barack Obama: The Empire’s New Clothes
12 Nov 2008
by Paul Street Barack Obama and his followers continue to revise the history of his ascendance, pretending his campaign was rooted among the "outsiders." The public line is a fiction, as even the most rudimentary research reveals. In fact, Obama's own words document his intense courtship of…
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Cashing the Obama Check: Will It Come Back Marked “Insufficient Funds”?
05 Nov 2008
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon The vote for the First Black President wasn't just about race and racism. For tens of millions, it was a vote for peace abroad, for economic and social justice at home. Barack Obama sold himself to the American people as a transformative political…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Told You So
12 Nov 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It's not as if we at BAR didn't warn you. Barack Obama's first major act as president-elect was to select as his chief of staff Rep. Rahm Emanuel, whose "role as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was to insure that…
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Morning in Obamerica: Change, Change, Change?
05 Nov 2008
by Ishmael Reed What has Obama wrought? In the euphoria, can reality reclaim its rightful place? The parameters of rhetorical change are boundless, propelled into the nether-reaches of nonsensicality by hyper-speak and super-wishfullness that can never supplant the real world of entrenched class…
Bill Quigley
How We Fuel Africa's Bloodiest War
05 Nov 2008
by Johann Hari The 14-year-long conflict that has already killed 5.4 million Congolese - "the deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe" - has been rekindled by Rwanda's surrogate Tutsi militia. Although the rationale is to safeguard Congolese Tutsis, "It is a lie." The…
Bill Quigley
The Obama '08 Phenomenon: What Have We Learned?
05 Nov 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford There is no doubt that history has been made, "for reasons that go beyond the obvious ‘first Black' aspect of race." 2008 was the first year in modern history that Blacks made no demands on the Democratic candidate - and consequently, were promised nothing.…
Bill Quigley
Great White Hope
15 Oct 2008
by Sikivu Hutchinson "Maverick" John McCain and attack-dog Sarah Palin seem to have staked their entire campaign on the powers of racial revulsion. "Linking Obama to William Ayers and domestic terrorism, Palin exhorted that ‘this is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Oprah and Bad Samaritans
10 Jan 2007