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Bill Quigley
Leading Democrats: ‘Expropriate the Expropriators’
14 Nov 2007
A political satire by Paul Street What if...what if the Republicans were right, and the Democratic field of presidential candidates were really closet Marxists, biding their time until after Election Day to establish socialism in the U.S? Could it be that Clinton, Obama, Edwards and the rest…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ahmadinejad Sane, Bush Crazy
03 Oct 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A famous old English song is titled, "The World Turned Upside Down." Such appears to be the insane vantage point through which the Bush regime, and many ordinary citizens, view reality: in reverse. U.S. media and politicians behave as if…
Bill Quigley
African Americans: Stand Up Like World Warriors
21 Nov 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When many hundreds of thousands of African American Joshuas blew their horns and shed their blood during the Black Freedom Movement, the walls of legal Jim Crow did come tumbling down. But in the aftermath, Black political structures failed to make the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black America Left Behind
21 Nov 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The racial economic gap is growing, with whites moving ahead more quickly than Blacks. Even more damning to African American prospects, a new study shows that nearly half the children of the Black "middle class" are worse off than their…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Taser Nation
28 Nov 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A country that employs torture as an instrument of national policy should be expected to do the same on the local law enforcement level. The reverse is also true. The United States, with its long legacy of subjecting society's "Others" to…
Bill Quigley
U.S-Instigated War Brings Mass Death to Somalia
28 Nov 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The United States remains, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world," through its own wars of aggression and by fomenting and manipulating conflicts that kill millions. It is also the most cynical power on…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: AIDS, the Black Disease
05 Dec 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley At some point AIDS in the U.S. crossed the threshold from being perceived as a general health crisis to a "Black" disease. Once the demographic transformation was accomplished - with "Black men comprising 44% of all male HIV infections in…
Bill Quigley
Don’t Blame Blacks for the Crisis of Capital
05 Dec 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford How could the bursting U.S. sub-prime housing bubble cause chaos and confusion in world financial markets? By itself, it couldn't. What the predatory lending implosion revealed was the speculative foundation on which major banks build their paper…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider – 2007: The Test
19 Dec 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The past year has been a caravan of catastrophes and betrayals punctuated by occasional evidence that hope should at least attempt to remain eternal. "The end is near," it appears, "not only of 2007, but of denial that America is on the fast…
Kemet Mawakana
Hopes And Dreams
09 Jul 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet Like Dr. King, we've all got a dream, for ourselves, for our families, for our futures. Some of us even have a plan. But there are dreams and there are Dreams. There are plans and there are Plans.