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Bill Quigley
Obama To Leave 50,000 Troops In Iraq Indefinitely
04 Mar 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford From a supposed "antiwar" candidate, to a fan of the murderous "surge," from a "no permanent bases" candidate to a "50,000 troops for…
Bill Quigley
Those Who Demand Nothing, Get Nothing
03 Sep 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Having made no demands on Barack Obama's presidential candidacy, Black America should expect to reap - nothing. "For the first time since the rebellions of the Sixties, we hardly hear the call for a Marshall-type plan to rebuild the cities - once the near-…
Bill Quigley
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Palin Propaganda Machine
17 Sep 2008
by Sikivu Hutchinson Middle-American (i.e., white) moral hypocrisy is in graphic relief this campaign season. "Had the Palin family soap opera played out in the Obama household his bid for the presidency would have been gutted by right wing hysteria about promiscuous black welfare mothers in…
Bill Quigley
Community College Students Need Not Apply: Our Reward for Bailing Out the Banks
03 Sep 2008
by Kesi Foster Higher education is an American Dream, but may become a "Dream deferred" for community college students. The banks are the villains. "The following lenders have started turning away from community college students: Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, SunTrust, and PNC. In the case of Citibank…
Bill Quigley
Obama and So-Called Post-Racial Politics
03 Sep 2008
by Linda Burnham News of the death of Black politics may be premature. "We will not reach a post-racialist U.S. by announcement or decree," writes the author. "The only way to get there from here is by way of racial justice." Besides, the death of Black politics presupposes the death of white…
Bill Quigley
The Four-Day Campaign Commercial
03 Sep 2008
by Shannon Joyce Prince If you want to find the Mother Lode of contradictions, go to a Democratic National Convention. "Obama claims he cares about workers yet he has selected Wal-Mart supporter Jason Furman to direct his economic policy despite Wal-Mart's abysmal record on racism, sexism, fair-pay…
Bill Quigley
The Skinny on McKinney
03 Sep 2008
by Gabriel San Roman, Uprising Radio What makes Cynthia McKinney run? Uprising Radio’s Gabriel San Roman inquires why she left the Democratic Party and what kind of home she’s found among the Greens, whose presidential banner she carries, this year. “I declared my independence from the […
Bill Quigley
Welcome to the USA, Where All the Classes are Middle
03 Sep 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Clear, concise and accurate language must be plowed under to make the American political conversation safe for corporate-speak. In place of various classes pursuing their own interests at each other's expense, the USA has been peopled by an all-…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: America Attacks Russia
03 Sep 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The aggressive U.S. encirclement of Russia threatens a new era of Cold War, fueled by American media hogwash about "poor defenseless Georgians" who "suffered a dastardly, unjustified, sneak attack from the evil Russian bear." It does not phase…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Among Republicans, Who's The Man? Limbaugh or Steele?
18 Mar 2009
To hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, click the flash player above. To download an MP3 copy for broadcast or personal use, click here. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford While Democrats stirred the pot "like kids egging on a schoolyard fight," premier right-wing radio…