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Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: Ron Sims, Hometown Boy, Makes Good
18 Feb 2009
Our columnist knows a little sump'in about Ron Sims, the Black former executive of King County, Seattle, Washington, who's been nominated to become President Obama's Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. "Sims has long had the consistency of weak oatmeal... a perfect complement to…
Bill Quigley
Boycott and Disinvest in Israel, in Solidarity and Self-Defense
18 Feb 2009
"Black Americans, who have experienced apartheid at home and fought successfully against it in Africa," feel most intensely the need to register their opposition to Israel's version of apartheid. Yet their elected officials cower at the feet of the pro-Israel lobby, which has successfully targeted…
Bill Quigley
Trying to Revive the Bubble Economy: Obama's Awful Financial Recovery Plan
17 Feb 2009
{youtube}28I0JK0byLU{/youtube} Economist Michael Hudson, one of those who predicted both the dot-com and housing bubbles and how they ended, details how Obama and his economic advisors appear poised, after handing over trillions to bail out big investors, to attempt a reinflation of the bubble…
Bill Quigley
Faith Based Obama Expands Corruption of Clergy
11 Feb 2009
The Bush administration flung hundreds of millions of tax dollars at unscrupulous pastors in its effort to build a political patronage machine. Instead of dismantling this machinery, the Obama administration seems poised to continue this faith-based bribery. Click here to download a…
Bill Quigley
Malcolm X on Zionism
01 Mar 2009
Malcolm X (Omowale Malcolm X Shabazz) Malcolm X spelled out his views on Zionism during the last half-year of his life. "These Israeli Zionists," said Malcolm, in an issue of the Egyptian Gazette, "religiously believe their Jewish God has chosen them to replace the outdated European colonialism…
Bill Quigley
The Day the Music Died: Malcolm X's Assassination
01 Mar 2009
"When I looked up, I saw Malcolm X standing up and glaring down at one of his assassins. At that point, from the corner of my eye, nearby to my left, I saw a flash from a gun as I watched Malcolm X fall down and back about ten feet."
Bill Quigley
Coverage of Obama and Ethnicity Says More About Media
04 Mar 2009
The picture of a post-racial America that corporate media pundits fondly paint and serve up to us is about as credible as the declarations six months ago by some of the same experts that the economy was "fundamentally sound," One need look no further than corporate media coverage of the Obama…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Bloody History of ‘Race Management’ in the U.S.: An Interview with David R. Roediger
04 Mar 2009
The notion that the U.S. is is anywhere near "getting over" race is foolish, ahistorical, and only useful to elites who would hide our own history from us, argues Dr. David Roediger, author of "How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon. Roediger argues…
Bill Quigley
Haiti, the Financial Crisis, and International Solidarity
04 Mar 2009
Ignored by the U.S. corporate media in the wake of the violent coup and kidnapping of Haiti's elected president by the U.S., Canada and France, a brutal occupation force under the flag of the United Nations enforces the rule of the transnational investor class upon Haiti's population . As the…
Bill Quigley
New Orleans Gets Least Job Creation Money in U.S.
01 Mar 2009
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford The federal economic stimulus plan provides less stimulus for New Orleans than for any other congressional district in the United States. The logic is simple and savage: Less people, less money, rather than more needs, more money. To download a…