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Bill Quigley
Undo Suburbia: The Imminent Transportation Catastrophe
18 Mar 2009
To listen to 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 Last year's "brief but terrifying" experience with $4-a-gallon gasoline "proved beyond doubt that the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White Christian Terrorists With Nuclear Materials Ignored?
18 Mar 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Homeland security” seems to mean keeping the United States secure against threats from everyone except the White Right. In the Maine home of a rich acolyte of Hitler police found all the ingredients to make a “dirty bomb,” including “bomb-grade…
Bill Quigley
Obama's Numerous Torture Loopholes
18 Mar 2009
by Prof. James Hill “America does not torture,” Barack Obama recently proclaimed. George Bush said the same thing, and was proven to be lying. An analysis of President Obama’s executive order on torture “may permit cruel abuses of prisoners to continue.” Although the order seems to cover the…
Bill Quigley
President Obama's Deeply Flawed Housing Plan
18 Mar 2009
by Petrino DiLeo The Obama administration’s plan to deal with the housing crisis is far superior to George Bush’s “do-nothing approach.” However, the attempt is “dwarfed” by the “$6 trillion in housing wealth that has been lost so far,” and leaves significant segments of at-risk homeowners unaided…
Bill Quigley
‘Left’ Obamites Prefer Kool-Aid to Struggle
11 Mar 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Ford answers Linda Burnham's recent assault on the non-Obamite Left, whom she sneeringly refers to as victims of "Left ‘anticipatory disillusionment'" and assorted other "psycho-babble." Burnham sets up Left straw men, to knock them down, all in an attempt to…
Bill Quigley
So President Obama Is Finally Pissed Off? So What?
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 The President's public display of anger at AIG is a cover for well-deserved political embarrassment. He…
Bill Quigley
Department of Double Standards: Rep. Maxine Waters Maligned for Helping Black Banks
18 Mar 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford With the bankster class methodically looting the national treasure in collusion with purchased politicians, questions of conflict of interest have become a dead letter. Lawless banksters are “empowered to dictate the terms of their own deliverance from insolvency…
Bill Quigley
What's Law Got To Do With It?
18 Mar 2009
by Reza Fiyouzat The Obama administration seems determined to allow George Bush and his cronies and lawyers to get away with eight years of lawless behavior. Perhaps more striking than the impunity likely to be extended to the Bush gang, is the ease with which the former president shredded the…
Bill Quigley
Obama’s Choice of Biden: ‘The Devil Made Me Do It.”
27 Aug 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Flip Wilson's comedic character "Geraldine" knew who to blame for her own indiscretions: "The Devil made me do it." The same goes for Barack Obama who, his supporters are quick to explain, is blameless for his political sins and betrayals. The "white…
Bill Quigley
Reflections on Obama’s “Non-Ideological Pragmatism”
07 Jan 2009
Normal 0 by Paul Street The corporate media work hard to frame pro-business policies as the "practical" and "pragmatic" work of "centrist" and "non-partisan" politicians who can "get the job done." The clear implication is that progressives have their heads in the clouds, and are incapable of "…