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Bill Quigley
Obama Runs a Crooked Game
27 Mar 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama specializes in rigging political games so that African Americans can’t win – that is, unless the African American is named Obama. So intent is Obama to retain his huge support among white males, the Senator constantly admonishes Blacks to…
Bill Quigley
Obama’s Schemes to Tiptoe Past the Devil
27 Mar 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR executive e ditor Glen Ford Barack Obama likes to pretend that he is a deeply spiritual man, but he failed to sneak past the white gods of retribution when it appeared Obama paid insufficient homage to the greatness of the American historical legacy. The…
Bill Quigley
Five Years of Accelerating U.S. Decline
27 Mar 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Five years ago, anti-war forces were in deep depression, having failed to prevent Bush from launching his illegal war against Iraq. Pro-war circles were floating on top of the world, imagining that Washington was about to become the new Rome under an American…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Progressive Agenda
30 Jan 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley For progressives, the Democratic presidentialprimary is over; they have no horse in that race. "No one knows if Clinton orObama will be the nominee, but it doesn't really matter." With Rep. DennisKucinich out of the running, and now facing a…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Conyers Must Decide
06 Feb 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The best of icons risk losing their luster, no matter how well-deserved, if they falter at the gates of greatness. Rep. John Conyers, the Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, resists all pleas…
Bill Quigley
Minimal Differences Between Clinton, Obama
06 Feb 2008
Review the NAACP's Questionnaire and a Legal Scholar's Study of Candidates' Campaign Stances The NAACP and noted legal scholar Vernellia R. Randall have released, respectively, an exhaustive questionnaire on the Democratic candidates' positions on issues important to African…
Bill Quigley
Haiti Genocide a la bonne femme
06 Feb 2008
by John Maxwell France's Marie Antoinette is said to have proclaimed, "let them eat cake," referring to the bread-starved peasants of her country. In Haiti, the rural and urban poor subjugated by the United States, France and United Nations enforcers have been reduced to a diet of mud cakes…
Bill Quigley
The Friends of Fat Albert Wynn vs the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
05 Feb 2008
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon A lifelong Black progressive and a groveling tool of corporate power face off on February 12 – a test of the power of the people to evict those who subvert their fundamental interest in peace and social justice. “Fat Albert” Wynn, the mis-Representative from…
Leutisha Stills
Congressional Black Caucus Grades Plummet on War, “Terror” and Trade Bills
06 Feb 2008
by Leutisha Stills, CBC Monitor Votes on three bills have plunged the Congressional Black Caucus to their lowest collective grades yet, according to the watchdog group CBC Monitor. For the first time since the CBC Monitor began tracking the voting behavior of Black members of the U.S. House, no…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Democrats Target Kucinich for Defeat
13 Feb 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The corporate rulers of the United States are determined to have their revenge against Dennis Kucinich, the heroic Ohio congressman who held high the progressive banner in the last two Democratic presidential primary seasons. Not content…