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Bill Quigley
Time for an Israel Divestment Campaign
21 Jan 2009
by Kevin Alexander Gray “What’s happening in Palestine is not fundamentally different from what occurred in apartheid South Africa.” And the response should be similar. “We must demand that the United States end its $30 billion a year military support” to Israel, “demand that public bodies…
Bill Quigley
Top Three Gaza Myths Debunked
21 Jan 2009
by Jaisal Noor American perceptions of Palestine are warped by Israeli propaganda transmitted as fact by corporate media. Israel, the United States and only a handful of other nations thwart “the international consensus for peace” in the region called for in UN Resolution 242. Hamas did abide by…
Bill Quigley
Time To Give Guantanamo Back to Cuba
21 Jan 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The uses to which Guantanamo Bay has been put pale beside America's original sin of violent expropriation and armed occupation of Cuba's national territory. If this is really a new day, it's time for a new policy, time to give Gitmo back to Cuba…
Bill Quigley
In America, Big Time Financial Crime Pays Well
21 Jan 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford What does it say that the conditions of arch-criminal Bernard Madoff's so-called "house arrest" are better than than the real lives of hundreds of millions of honest and hardworking Americans? It says that crime does pay, especially financial crime…
Bill Quigley
Is Black GOP Chairmanship a Victory For Black People?
04 Feb 2009
Normal 0 If Black faces in high places are collective victories for African Americans, then Michael Steele's rise to chairman of the Republican National Committee is a plus. By the same logic, we are compelled to "give Clarence Thomas his due." Click here to download a broadcast quality…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The World Flees From The American Disease
11 Feb 2009
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford Waking up to the fundamental dishonesty of the American banking system, based as it is on fictional assets and fictional wealth, other nations are beginning to take steps to isolate themselves from the worst impact of America's troubles, by…
Bill Quigley
How Racism Sparked the Financial Crisis
11 Feb 2009
by Joe Sims From who gets loans and credit, to who is deemed worth of "restructuring" or bailouts, to which neighborhoods home buyers are steered to, race has as profound an impact upon real estate, housing, and the fiscal crisis as it does on everything else in this supposedly "post-racial"…
Bill Quigley
Private Prisons, Human Trafficking and the American Way of Punishment
17 Feb 2009
Where else but in 21st century America do the builders of private prisons bribe judges to sentence juveniles to their facilities? Click here to download a broadcast quality mp3 of this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click the flash player below to listen to it without downloading. {mp3}…
Bill Quigley
Who Won the Civil War?
18 Feb 2009
If the Union won the Civil War, and the slaves were truly set free, why was the author persecuted and threatened for complaining about a statue honoring a Confederate General? Furthermore, if the NAACP is a genuine civil rights organization dedicated to the well being and dignity of Black people…
Mark P. Fancher
Why Imperialism Needs Proxies to Do Its Dirty Work in Africa
18 Feb 2009
Despite resistance from virtually every nation in Africa, the U.S. continues to seek a home for its Africa Command, AFRICOM. The lure of African oil and other resources causes Washington to devise various schemes to dominate the continent - especially the recruitment of proxies to do the Americans…