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Bill Quigley
Cynthia McKinney: The World Can't Wait
07 Feb 2007
The former Georgia congresswoman's address to the Kuala Lumpur Peace Conference, in Malaysia synthesizes her activist and legislative experiences. Whatever occurs in the United States, the "world's marginalized, exploited, and dispossessed are taking center stage" to defy U.S…
Cynthia McKinney
Former Malaysian Prime Minister: Put Bush, Blair on Trial
07 Feb 2007
President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are "the killers of children" and should face the judgment of an international tribunal, said Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, speaking to a War Crimes Conference and Exhibition, in Kuala Lumpur. The former Malaysian Prime Minister…
Bill Quigley
Greens: Impeach Bush
07 Feb 2007
The national Green Party demands that Democrats seek impeachment of George Bush and thwart "obvious plans for a war on Iran." Bush's claims that Iran is behind much of the strife in Iraq should be put in the context of "the administration's history of misinformation." The Greens have…
Bill Quigley
The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa
07 Feb 2007
Part Three by Milton Allimadi White writers flooded Europe and the United States with poisonous screeds on the barbarity and soullessness of Africans, preparing public opinion for the rape of the continent's resources. "Explorers" with little knowledge of the geography begged…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Medical Apartheid
14 Feb 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley Black and brown children continue to be used as medical guinea pigs in the United States - the clearest evidence that white supremacist ideology is alive and well. From the gruesome experiments on Black slaves in the pre-Emancipation South,…
Bill Quigley
The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa
14 Feb 2007
Part Four by Milton Allimadi The U.S. "newspaper of record" has long considered defamation of Africans a legitimate part of "all the news that's fit to print." As the whites of South Africa methodically erected the evil system of apartheid, The New York Times and other American…
Bill Quigley
The American Dilemma: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
14 Feb 2007
Black Agenda Radio, from Glen Ford The U.S. persists in trying to dominate the Persian Gulf region, while understanding nothing about the peoples who live there. Constantly playing a game of "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim," the Americans confuse only themselves. No amount of additional ground forces…
Bill Quigley
Fire and Damnation Awaits Those Who Transgress Against White America’s Civic Religion
19 Mar 2008
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford The transgression of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, pastor of Barack Obama's church home of twenty years in Chicago were not Scriptural. Wright questioned white America's civic religion, its fraudulent self-image as benevolent conqueror and justified…
Rev. Irene Monroe
Oprah's Good Intentions
31 Jan 2007
Oprah Winfrey's $40 million gift of a school for South African girls, although laudable, has been criticized for failing to produce the "greatest good for the greatest number." The author cautions that Ms. Winfrey's philanthropy may be seen as a kind of benevolent paternalism - or worse, as a…
Tim Wise
The Oprah Effect
25 Oct 2006
Do American whites use Oprah to ignore, obscure or minimize the effects of racism and white privilege in this country. Scholar Tim Wise explores the "Oprah Effect"