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  • Bill Quigley
    Obama Revitalizes Disaster Capitalism: The Shock Doctrine Receives a Make-Over
    03 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 by Carolyn Baker The president-elect's "adherence to neoliberal, globalist policies couched in the rhetoric of ‘change' but offering no substantial departure from the ultimate strategies of imperialism, corporate capitalist supremacy, and almost total ignorance (or ignore-ance) of…
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    The Great Land Giveaway: Neo-Colonialism by Invitation
    03 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 by James Petras Newly emerging nations have joined with the usual neocolonial suspects in a massive bid to buy up poorer countries' available land. How do they pull it off? "The process of agro-imperial empire building operates largely through political and financial mechanisms,…
  • Bill Quigley
    The Human Zoo: Making Jamaica Fit For Foreign Corporations
    03 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 by John Maxwell Jamaica is going to "borrow money to destroy the integrity of Jamaica's loveliest town, dilapidated though it may be now, in the interest of a foreign corporation." After despoiling much of the island's natural beauty through industrial and tourist-generated pollution…
  • Bill Quigley
    The White, White House Press Corps
    03 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 by Sam Fulwood III Black White House reporters are dwindling, even as the nation's first Black president prepares to move in. "We are going to integrate the Oval Office long before we integrate the media that covers the president," said a veteran African American journalist. Jesse…
  • Bill Quigley
    Somalia Ought To Be Obama's Litmus Test
    10 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 by Sadia Ali Aden The test of Barack Obama's policies in Africa and worldwide begins with his handling of the war against Somalia, his inheritance from George Bush. The "world's worst humanitarian disaster" (about which Obama has not uttered a single word), is the product of America'…
  • Bill Quigley
    Power to the People in Time of Crisis
    10 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 The raw numbers of dollars spent on economic recovery are not as important as transforming relations of power in the U.S. "Only a great shift in power relationships, seizing it from the financial oligarchy to empower the great majority, can hope to bring even a semblance of stability…
  • Bill Quigley
    Black Colleges Face Whiteout
    10 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 White Georgia politicians want to force two historically Black universities to merge with white schools, to reduce "duplicative" costs and end a "legacy of segregation. "When a Georgia Republican goes on a crusade against the vestiges of Jim Crow, it's time to watch out!"   Click…
  • Bill Quigley
    U.S. Business Says No Mas to Cuba Embargo
    10 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 U.S. business groups have joined the vast majority of the world's nations in requesting that President-Elect Obama quickly end the 47-year-long American trade embargo against Cuba. The economic blockade isolates the U.S., not Cuba. "In a sense, the United States is embargoing itself…
  • Bill Quigley
    Cholera Outbreak Outcome of West’s War on Zimbabwe
    10 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 by Stephen Gowans Zimbabwe is facing multiple crises because of savage western assaults on its economy and the viability of its state machinery. The goal is regime change. U.S.-British sanctions against Zimbabwe are a form of warfare, like the sanctions that led to a million deaths…
  • Bill Quigley
    Human Rights Day Celebration in Gaza
    10 Dec 2008
    Normal 0 by Abukar Arman December 10 marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet the document holds no sway in Palestine, where "an entire population is being brutally punished." Israel, the occupying power, refuses to recognize the Declaration's authority.…

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