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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Seung-Hi Cho and John McCain
25 Apr 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley Senator John McCain, a man who would be president, thinks it's funny to joke about bombing Iranians. McCain shares a moral sickness with many others in positions of power - most notably, George W. Bush. Yet the relative silence surrounding…
Bill Quigley
Nightmare Iraq Scenarios for the Bush Administration
18 Apr 2007
by Dilip Hiro The American occupation of Iraq, which was never intended to empower the Iraqi people, has resulted in the political ascension of two Shi'ite clerics: Muqtada al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army has twice battled U.S. troops, and Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most revered Shia figure in Iraq.…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Harold Ford, Enemy of Black America
11 Apr 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The leopard never changes his spots. Such is the case with Harold Ford, Jr., the darling of the corporate media and the rightwing of the Democratic Party, who was rewarded for his fawning dedication to white supremacy with a corporate-…
Bill Quigley
Transforming the Ghettos: A Martin Luther King – Malcolm X Community Revitalization Initiative
11 Apr 2007
by Dr. Ron Daniels There needs to be a movement, so let's begin one. The first step is an analysis - followed by action - of the state of apartheid in the U.S. The catastrophe called Katrina told the story, and we must find the solution. To do so, we must dig deep into our own history of…
Bill Quigley
How the Bush Administration Destabilized the ‘Arc of Instability’
10 Apr 2007
by Tom Engelhardt Chaos is the inevitable result of the U.S. quest to conquer the world. Nothing else could possibly result. Defeat is also inevitable, but millions of deaths will be left in the wake. The real "rogue nation" is the United States, which has under George Bush launched a poorly…
Bill Quigley
Enabling Imus
11 Apr 2007
by Richard Muhammad In a horrific display of racist solidarity, white media men have circled their wagons around Don Imus, the career broadcast bigot who called the Rutgers women's basketball team a bunch of "nappy headed hos." All is forgiven, because "Imus is us," say his defensemen. And…
Bill Quigley
Racism and the Cherokee Nation
21 Mar 2007
by William Loren Katz A majority of Cherokee Nation voters recently turned their backs on centuries of collaboration, cohabitation and struggle alongside Blacks, endorsing a move to revoke the citizenship rights of nearly 3,000 Black tribal members. The author, a noted scholar of Black-Native…
Bill Quigley
Bush’s Broken AIDS Promise to Africa?
21 Mar 2007
by Aaron Sussman The Bush administration undermines its vaunted AIDS efforts in Africa by tying aid dollars to contracts for American firms, and barring funds to groups that deal with sex workers - a primary vector of the disease. Such political-religious restrictions have led to the growth of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Andrew Young’s Nobel War Prize
21 Mar 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley Andrew Young, the former ambassador, mayor, congressman and aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, "is now nothing more than a whore for corporations and crooked kleptocrats." As a globe-trotting public relations man and political fixer, Young…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Abortion Rights are Civil Rights
28 Mar 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley With Black women undergoing abortions at about four times the rate of white women, it's time that African Americans made reproductive rights a "Black" issue. Escalating attacks on Roe v. Wade threaten Black and poor women most of all, yet…