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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
In Search of the Real Barack Obama: Can a Black Senate Candidate Resist the DLC?
26 Jun 2003
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Below are three articles originally published in Black Commentator on June 5, June 19, and June 26, 2003. In these we initiated a dialog between the editors of Black Commentator and Barack Obama, then a state senator from the south…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Oprah & Obama: Corporate Marketing for a Corporate Campaign
12 Dec 2007
Two of the best marketers in the U.S. teamed up for a three-state weekend extravaganza of vapid, substance-devoid entertainment posing as presidential politics. Oprah Winfrey – a certified genius of self-salesmanship – and the faux progressive, fraudulent anti-war candidate Barack Obama…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bush Wins in 2008
20 Feb 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Bill Quigley
The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation
16 Apr 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Having crushed the planet's peasants and converted food into just another commodity for global manipulation, the Lord's of Capital have unleashed upon humanity the threat - no, certainty - of mass starvation. The criminal mega-enterprise is centered in…
Bill Quigley
Petreaus & Crocker, Obama & Clinton: No Matter Who Wins, the War Goes On
16 Apr 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Both Clinton and Obama get big aplause from Democratic audiences pledging to withdraw combat troops from Iraq. But do either of them intend to end the unjust, illegal and genocidal war in which more than a million have perished? The questions Obama…
Bill Quigley
Atlanta's Answer to America's Urban Transit Apartheid
14 May 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Denuded of their manufacturing sectors, urban America is the scene of a new gold rush. Chambers of commerce and speculators are scrambling for the last goodies, many of which are literally nailed down -- the assets of her public transit, public health and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Hollow Victory
09 Jan 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama flies high on white dreams of never again having to confront the realities of race in America. The likes of professional right-winger Bill Bennett sing Obama's praises as a "breakthrough" candidate who "never plays the race card…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: So Long Suckers
02 Jul 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley "The Obama campaign slogan ought to be ‘Never give a sucker an even break.'" The Democratic nominee-to-be has made "chumps" out of progressives at every turn, yet they still fawn over Obama as if he is one of their own. But do these "…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider - Obama's Iraq Fairy Tale
09 Jul 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley With his nomination assured, Barack Obama is showing the Left just what little regard he has for them. "Ever since Hillary Clinton pulled out of the race, he has laughed at his defenders and sneered that his now disappointed supporters were…
Bill Quigley
The Audacity of Imperial Airbrushing: Barack Obama’s Whitewashed History of U.S. Foreign Policy and
09 Jul 2008
by Paul Street The United States has a solution for avoiding discussion of the many crimes it has committed against weaker nations: denial. “It never happened,” say the Americans, when confronted with the facts. Barack Obama is as skilled in the denial arts as anyone, and so are his…