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Bill Quigley
From Kennedy to Obama: Liberalism's Last Fling
04 Jun 2008
by John Pilger When capitalism is in deep trouble, it trots out the liberal. Such was the case in 1968, when anti-war and Black Freedom forces pressed for fundamental changes in power relationships. Up stepped Robert Kennedy, whom the author says was no progressive, but who…
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Barack Obama’s Pernicious Refusal to Defend the Causes of Black/Brown People
04 Jun 2008
by Tolu Olorunda What most shocks the 18-year-old Nigerian immigrant author is Barack Obama's "acquiescence to forces of white supremacy" - a reflexive reaction by the Illinois senator that has caused him to disrespect his African American constituency. Obama's "fierce" critiques of Rev.…
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Scott McClellan’s Road to Damascus and Cuba’s Internationalism
04 Jun 2008
by John Maxwell The author, a veteran Jamaican journalist and political activist, thinks most George Bush fans don't understand what motivates former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan. "The scales have fallen from his eyes. His conscience has sprung rudely into exuberant life." He has…
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Campaign Obamizing VS Community Organizing?
09 Jun 2008
by Dr. Aaron Schutz An oft-heard but seldom questioned claim among Obama supporters is that thousands of people are becoming involved in the campaign who never cared about politics before, and that many of these are bound to remain active in other community-oriented endeavors after the campaign…
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Barack Obama versus Black Self-Determination
28 May 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford One of the great ironies of the current campaign season, is the assumption by so many Black voters that by supporting Barack Obama for president, they are making a real contribution to African American self-determination. Nothing could be further from the truth…
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Laura and George: Hypocritical Ghouls of Disaster
14 May 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Global aggression is a family affair at the Bush White House. The President cynically assigns his wife to threaten the ruling military junta in Myanmar, while simultaneously requesting that the generals open their borders to U.S. hurricane relief aid.…
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Bigoted Anti-Obama Attacks Divert Attention From Pervasive Institutional Racism
21 May 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Do the reactions to racist attacks on Barack Obama prove that we as a nation are on the way to "transcending race"? Do racist attacks on Barack Obama, news of which are constantly recirculated in the black community, actually help solidify and…
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Somalia: Hidden Catastrophe, Hidden Agenda
21 May 2008
by Media Lens, UK Since 1996 the US has engaged in a continual "low-intensity" war in Somalia that has killed a million of that country's inhabitants, a death toll second only to the Congo during that time. Another million Somalis are homeless, refugees from the fighting. …
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“Humanitarian Aid” at Gunpoint Isn't Humanitarian
21 May 2008
By Mel Reeves When is an invasion not an invasion? When it's a "humanitarian intervention", of course. Some of the same folks who gave us Iraq, and want to give us Iran now want to throw in Myanmar, if we can find it on a map. The recent cyclone that killed thousands and made…
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The Deeper Racism in Iowa: Beneath the White Obama Craze
14 May 2008
by Paul Street Barack Obama's January 3rd Democratic Caucus victory in Iowa demonstrated that a Black man - or, at least, this particular Black man - could attract winning numbers of white voters. The candidate's supporters claimed Iowa signaled a new day, that "race doesn't matter" anymore in…