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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Nancy Pelosi, Public Enemy Number One
17 Oct 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Her machinations since Democrats took over the U.S. House in January 2007 show that Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't scared of the Republicans - "her eagerness to cooperate with the Bush regime is matched only by her incompetence in leading…
Bill Quigley
They Killed the Boy, But Kept Their Hats On
24 Oct 2007
by BAR columnist Lizz Brown The entire horrific crime was captured on tape, and a (second) autopsy showed 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson died of suffocation after being gang-muscled by guards on his very first day at a Florida boot camp. Despite the medical and video evidence, an all-white…
Bill Quigley
Americanistic Personality Disorder (type 1776.0)
24 Oct 2007
by Jason Miller Mr. Miller has studied the American personality, and the prognosis does not look good. Miller identifies nine characteristics of what he calls Americanistic Personality Disorder (type 1776.0), "a dangerous perversion of character" that may become pathological. Practitioners of "…
Bill Quigley
‘Self-Help’: A Stolen Word Wielded as a Weapon Against Black Activism
24 Oct 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Servants of Power of all colors have looted Black history and defamed our heroes by usurping the term "Self-Help" for their own purposes. By expropriating the term to mean only "safe" volunteerism, private entrepreneurialism, wistful philanthropy, and personal…
Bill Quigley
U.S. ‘Bwana’ Goes ‘Big Game’ Hunting for Iraqis
31 Oct 2007
by Nick Turse In the early 20th Century Philippines, U.S. troops called "enemy" fighters "niggers" and "injuns," as surrogates for the people they despised back home. In Vietnam, the "Cong" were "gooks" and "dinks" - never human. The "bad guys" in Iraq and Afghanistan are "hajjis" and "rag-…
Bill Quigley
The Towering Racial Inferno: Disaster Capitalism in Cali
31 Oct 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford People that understand American society know that disaster more often brings out the worst - not the best - in a people whose fragile social contract is limited to the dominant racial group. So it was with 9/11 and Katrina - prime…
Bill Quigley
Fallen Child
03 Jan 2007
by Paul A. Moore The Miami-area teacher demands accountability from ‘men in power’ for the violence that is claiming so many young lives – an appalling number of them, his students. Ghetto life, it appears, is expendable.
Bill Quigley
Barack Obama: Progressives Beware!
03 Jan 2007
by Ted Glick Barack Obama is nobody's progressive politician, and proves it in his latest book. The Senator's vision for the future, writes Glick, more closely resembles the Clintons' than it does Rep. John Conyers or Dennis Kucinich.
Bill Quigley
Gangsters for Capitalism
17 Jan 2007
by Clinton L. Cox Although benign U.S. intentions are an article of faith among many Americans, theft, murder and oppression have always been central to U.S. policies and practices in the non-white world. George Bush’s crusade for ‘democracy’ is yet another chapter in the shameful saga.
Bill Quigley
The Fictitious Economy, Part 2, An Interview With Dr. Michael Hudson
30 Jul 2008
Transcript of a A Guns And Butter Interview by Bonnie Faulkner In the second half of an hour long interview with economist Dr. Michael Hudson broadcast on Guns And Butter June 25, 2008, Dr. Hudson explains some of the factors in the price of oil that are seldom discussed in the mass media, and…