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  • Bill Quigley
    Bush Vote Thief Caught in Senate Spotlight
    24 Oct 2007
    A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford {mp3}054x_gf_stop_thief{/mp3} Aware that Republicans have little chance of hanging onto the White House without yet another massive minority voter suppression campaign, the Bush men are busily deploying their criminal cadre in key election-stealing…
  • Bill Quigley
    What Would Obama Have Done? Voted for the War and Lied About It – Just Like Hillary
    24 Oct 2007
    by Paul Street Barack Obama's sole claim to being an "anti-war" candidate is an October, 2002, speech he delivered in Chicago, opposing the congressional vote to give George Bush Iraq War Powers. No sooner had Obama's U.S. Senate campaign been declared "viable" by the corporate media, than the…
  • by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
    Freedom Rider: Obama and McClurkin
    31 Oct 2007
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama seems to believe that his personal charm can resolve the myriad contradictions of his presidential campaign. A phony "anti-war" candidate who wants to vastly enlarge the war machine, a constitutional lawyer who needs Rev. Jesse…
  • Bill Quigley
    Whitewashing ‘Global Chicago’
    31 Oct 2007
    by Paul Street What's good for corporate globalization is good for Chicago and the rest of the nation - unless you live on the Black side of town. As the Color-Blind Curtain descends on American discourse, it has become taboo to even mention that map color-codes designating affluence or poverty…
  • by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
    Freedom Rider: Gangster Giuliani
    07 Nov 2007
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black New Yorkers remember Rudy Giuliani well - the race-baiting, gangster-mayor who unleashed police goon (and death) squads on suddenly Constitution-free Black neighborhoods. Almost single-handedly, Giuliani destroyed the myth of white New…
  • Bill Quigley
    Obama and Clinton: The Siamese Twins
    07 Nov 2007
    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Barack Obama tortures the English vocabulary and strains logic to the breaking point in an attempt to validate his bogus claim to be an anti-war candidate. The New York Times, eager to believe Obama, donated copious space to the senator's so-called "…
  • Bill Quigley
    Donna Edwards Can Kick Al Wynn Out of the Black Caucus
    07 Nov 2007
    by BAR executive Editor Glen Ford When the Congressional Black Caucus began its slide into irrelevancy, Al Wynn was there, one of four Blacks to vote to authorize George Bush's Iraq invasion, in 2002. By 2005, the list of irredeemable backstabbers had grown to ten, with nine CBC members joining…
  • by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
    Freedom Rider: Democrats Love Bush
    14 Nov 2007
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley When two Evils play tag team, the "Lesser of Two Evils" argument doesn't work anymore. Since George Bush took office, Democratic leadership has been his willing accomplice, smacking down every party member that dares to stand up. Dennis…
  • Bill Quigley
    Mortgage Crisis: Ostentatious Display Ain’t Black Power
    14 Nov 2007
    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The façade of soaring Black upward mobility is crumbling under the weight of the home mortgage catastrophe. Vast stretches of the new Black suburbia, "heralded as proof that the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow could be overcome without inconvenience…
  • Bill Quigley
    Executed ‘Walking While Black’ in Miami
    14 Nov 2007
    by Mel Reeves Only 20 yards from his home, walking with friends on his way back from the local laundromat, Gracia Beaugris was shot dead by a Miami policeman. Three bullets ripped into the unarmed, 19 year-old Haitian immigrant - two of them as he lay on the ground, defenseless. The police…

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