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Bill Quigley
How Barack Obama Learned to Love Israel
14 Mar 2007
by Ali Abunimah A decade ago the author, a Palestinian activist based in Chicago, thought wishfully of then State Senator Barack Obama: "If only a man of this calibre could become president one day." No longer. Obama now identifies totally with the political line of the American Israel Public…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa
14 Mar 2007
Part Eight, Conclusion by Milton Allimadi In the last installment of the author's book, serialized in BAR, he documents the more recent machinations of the New York Times and other U.S. publications in service of continued European and American domination of the African continent. "Blacks are…
Bill Quigley
A Domestic Marshall Plan to Transform America’s ‘Dark Ghettos’
21 Feb 2007
by Dr. Ron Daniels Black America must revive the concept of a Domestic Marshall Plan to reverse the deterioration of the nation's ‘dark ghettos' - most immediately, to restore New Orleans' exiled population. Dr. Daniels suggests the campaign be called the Martin Luther King-Malcolm X Community…
Paul Street
Army Grants ‘Moral Waivers’ for Recruitment
21 Feb 2007
by Paul Street Faced with declining enlistments, especially among the Black youth military age pool, the top brass have lowered their standards by introducing euphemistically named, "moral waivers" for prospective soldiers with criminal records. The author, a determined foe of the relentless…
Bill Quigley
The Letters Column
28 Feb 2007
by Our Readers, and BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford A Looming Intra-Black Political Civil War? The Tavis Show: Where is it Leading? The Contemptible Condoleezza Rice
Bill Quigley
The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa
07 Mar 2007
Part Seven by Milton Allimadi The same racist propaganda that prepared European and American public opinion for the divvying up of Africa in the late Nineteenth Century, reemerged with a vengeance as African nations won nominal independence in the mid-Twentieth Century. Western media paved…
Bill Quigley
Belafonte Protects the Soul of Struggle
14 Mar 2007
by Amy Goodman Entertainer/producer/activist Harry Belafonte turned 80 this month, "a living library of not only the civil rights movement, but of liberation struggles around the world." Friend, advisor and confidant of Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and generations of other…
Cynthia McKinney
‘We Must Resist!’
14 Mar 2007
by Cynthia McKinney The Black body politic is "comatose," and "the entire American body politic is in dire straits, too." So says former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who urges a "different kind of leadership" that is "revolutionary in its impact." This new "rainbow movement for…
Bill Quigley
South Carolina: The Black Primary
25 Jul 2007
by Kevin Alexander Gray The Democratic field of presidential candidates are all attempting to make the right noises in South Carolina, which is effectively the "Black primary" in the race. But that's all it is: noise. While Republicans kiss up to one of the most racist white electorates in the…
Bill Quigley
Poverty Scavengers
06 Jun 2007
by Danny Glover and Nicole Lee The vultures of predatory capital are circling Africa, buying up the debt of poor nations and winning court awards several times the price. TransAfrica Forum's Danny Glover and Nicole Lee warn that these vulture capitalists make a mockery of the rich countries'…