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Bill Quigley
Cynthia McKinney Deserves Your Support, Obama Does Not
02 Jul 2008
A Campaign Foreign Policy Focus by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who seems poised to capture the Green Party presidential nomination, in Chicago, this month, "is at this juncture in history the only vehicle through which progressives can both…
Bill Quigley
Death Rattles of a Criminal Class
24 Sep 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The parasitic investment bankers are dead as engines of healthy development, and should be left in their coffins. "Incapable of organizing money in ways that can even sustain itself, much less promote productive economic value and growth," Wall Street…
Bill Quigley
Counter Corporate Schemes with Community Planning
29 Oct 2008
The demise or ill health of U.S. investment banks has deprived finance capital of its headquarters sector, the evil geniuses who hatch long range schemes for ethnic cleansing of the nation's cities. Now, more than ever, "progressives must become city planners, and in the process of…
Bill Quigley
Condoleezza Stokes Flames of US Wars in Africa
19 Dec 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. military offensive in the Horn of Africa is poised to escalate, as Condoleezza Rice assures her African proxies of deepening collaboration in the “war on terror.” With at least half a million Somalis facing death by starvation and disease – and…
Bill Quigley
When NOT to Vote Black (at least in Memphis)
05 Dec 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Voting Rights Act was passed 42 years ago, but African Americans still have an uneven record of voting their interests - and their own political convictions - instead of falling for corporate con artists with Black faces. In Memphis, Tennessee, for the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: War Criminals
30 Nov 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley While the United Nations toadies for NATO and the International Criminal Court behaves like an apartheid “Africans Only” prosecutor, a venue in Malaysia dares to put the real international criminals in the dock. “The Kuala Lumpur…
Dady Chery
The Americans Take What They Want in Haiti – Even Near-Extinct Lizards
30 Nov 2011
by Dady Chery A nation whose sovereignty has been stolen has no rights that the big powers – or their scientists – are bound to respect. American zoogeographers recently snatched the rarest of Haitian reptiles, with impunity. “The animals collected on this expedition were endangered…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
7,200 Deaths and Environmental Betrayal: A Small Price to Pay for Corporate Partnership
30 Nov 2011
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo When Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddows show, the liberal host pretended that President Obama had not recently gutted EPA’s ability to combat air pollution, as if it never happened. The truth is, “The White…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
It's Time To Occupy The FCC!
30 Nov 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What do we call a government agency created to manage telephony, internet, wireless, cable, and broadcasting in the public interest, but has been the captive of greedy corporations for decades? We call it the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission. What…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Offensive
30 Nov 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford As the U.S. and its NATO allies move southward to further consolidate their grip on Africa, following the seizure of Libya and its vast oil fields, most of the continent’s leadership seems to welcome re-absorption into empire. “Africa is the most…