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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Eric Holder and Marc Rich
26 Nov 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If you're a billionaire crook in the United States, flight from prosecution is easy. But what does a rich fugitive do if he wants to come back home? He hires an expensive law firm, and begins to lobby for a pardon. That's the route Marc Rich…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bush Crimes Continue
05 Nov 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley George Bush is busily putting the finishing touches on his legacy of aggressions. His recent attack on Syria, a country that has been cooperative with America's so-called "war on terror," was designed to "make certain that nations labeled as…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Biden Blurts Awful Truth
29 Oct 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It's true that Sen. Joe Biden "isn't very bright and he can't stop talking." But Biden's uncontrollable mouth may have alerted us to the Obama-Biden administration's post-election surprise - something so scary, Obama is "gonna need you to use…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Right Wing Obama Love
22 Oct 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama's charms seem to work even on the least promising prospects. "Right wingers who openly follow the doctrine of America's right to empire and conquest are now endorsing Obama." William Buckley's son, Christopher, has been won over by…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: If “That One” Wins
15 Oct 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley All the contradictions of America's white supremacist history converge on November 4, when a society drenched in racism tries to figure out which of its "selves" will pull the lever. Lots of whites seem to be profoundly confused. "A recent poll…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Other Bailout
08 Oct 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It's hard to keep track of two mega-thieves at the same time. "The defense bill is every bit as wasteful and just as much a harbinger of doom as the much discussed Wall Street bailout, but has elicited hardly any debate, even from progressives…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: No Debate on Iran
01 Oct 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If George Bush and Barack Obama both call you crazy, you're probably in your right mind. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made perfectly good sense when he addressed the UN General Assembly, in New York. "He correctly pointed out that Iraq…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ruling Class Bailed Out
24 Sep 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The "worst criminals in the nation," who answered to no one as they daily stole billions from financial institutions and the society at large, would be given dictatorial powers in the trillion dollar attempt to clean up their mess of crimes.…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Boycott Israel
17 Sep 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley To call attention to Israel's apartheid policies is to ask for immediate labeling as an "anti-Semite." Just ask former president Jimmy Carter. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performer Abdur-Rahim Jackson was separated from the troupe and…
Bill Quigley
A Challenge to ‘Radical’ and ‘Pan-Africanist’ Obamites
01 Mar 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In an "Open Letter to the People of Zimbabwe," U.S.-based activists denounce sanctions against that country as "war crimes and the officials who initiated them as war criminals." By that definition (a good one), Barack Obama is a war criminal. The problem is, some…