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Bill Quigley
America Is The Headache
07 Apr 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Thinking Post-Obama
06 Apr 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley History will record that “the benefits to black America from the Obama administration have been non-existent” – and, at some point, African Americans will also have to face the fact. “Never again should one candidate for office,…
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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Is Marriage for White People?
14 Sep 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Do Black women and Black men have problems forging stable marriages in American society? Solution: Black women should seek partners outside the race, says the author of a new, “useless and perhaps dangerous” book. Author Ralph…
Bill Quigley
A Pimp Named Patriot
15 Sep 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Lynch Law and Summary Executions in Rebel-Held Libya
06 Apr 2011
“The world’s most imperial-dependent, ill-disciplined and whining ‘liberation movement’ is still blaming black ‘mercenaries’ and soldiers from Chad for its failures in the field.” Chad, meanwhile, has officially asked the “international coalition” to protect its civilians from the rebels, who have…
Alan Gilbert
Bigger and More Dangerous Than the New Jim Crow
14 Sep 2011
by Alan Gilbert The author reports that Michelle Alexander and her political blockbuster The New Jim Crow animated the annual gathering of the American Political Science Association. Some voices claimed that Alexander’s formulation is too narrow, while others are staggered by the sheer…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Lisa Jackson, Blow the Whistle on Obama!
14 Sep 2011
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo President Obama’s decision to abandon his Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Air regulations presents EPA chief Lisa Jackson with a stark choice: to swallow hard and keep her job or do the right thing by blowing the moral…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama and the Debt Crisis: a Successful Con Game Explained
03 Aug 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What just happened? Did Barack Obama just save the world, and us from a looming debt catastrophe? Or has he just played good cop to the Republican bad cop in an elaborate hoax staged to circumvent the will of the American people and deal mortal blows to…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Subverts Social Security
15 Sep 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Since January, 2009, Barack Obama has been Social Security’s relentless antagonist. He has succeeded in maneuvering the program into “the middle of the budget deficit debate, where it does not belong and from which it has been purposely shielded since…