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Bill Quigley
The Crimes of Bongo: Apartheid & Terror in Africa's Gardens of Eden, Part II
05 Aug 2009
by keith harmon snow When Gabon President Omar Bongo died of a heart attack at age 73 in early June, multinational corporations and neocolonial leaders in Europe and the U.S. mourned his passing. He had served them well as the longest-running dictatorship in Africa.
Bill Quigley
The Crimes of Bongo: Apartheid & Terror in Africa's Gardens of Eden, Part One
21 Jul 2009
by keith harmon snow American and European imperialists mourned the recent death of Gabon President Al Hajji Omar Bongo Ondimba, the longtime dictator and servant of western corporations and governments. It is fitting that Paris, London, Brussels and Washington miss him, since Bongo was largely…
Bill Quigley
The US’s War In Darfur
21 Nov 2007
by Keith Harmon Snow The Darfur region of Sudan possesses the third largest copper and the fourth largest uranium deposits on the planet, in addition to strategic location and significant oil resources of its own. Is the US-based "Save Darfur" movement snowing the US public on the…
keith harmon snow
Dr. Gerald Caplan and the Rwanda Genocide Cranks
14 May 2013
by keith harmon snow Behind the genocide in Congo and elsewhere stand a host of well-paid academics, entertainers, politicians and professional propagandists for U.S. imperial policy. One of them, “Dr. Gerald Caplan, ignores the pain, mutilations, rapes and deaths caused by the western power…
Bill Quigley
Over Five Million Dead in Congo? How Truth is Hidden, Even When it Seems to Be Told
06 Feb 2008
by keith harmon snow
keith harmon snow
April 1994 to April 2012: Commemorating More Than 18 years of US Sponsored Terrorism in Central Africa, Part 2 of 2
18 Apr 2012
by Keith Harmon Snow After US-backed forces shot their way to power in Rwanda and Uganda with armies of child soldiers and exemplary atrocities, Western propaganda blamed the horrific death toll on the losers. To legitimize its African pit bull regimes the US now hounds and deports Rwandan…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Dr. Ben Carson: Great Surgeon, Bad Icon
27 Mar 2013
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III Ben Carson, the brain doctor, has joined the ranks of the Right’s favorite Negroes. “The likes of a Wardell Connerly, Shelby Steele, or Clarence Thomas stand before conservatives and argue that we no longer need Affirmative Action, Head Start, and other social programs.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Social Service Workers and the Suffocating Grip of Neo-liberal Capitalism Part One: The Foundation
12 Aug 2014
by Danny Haiphong What little social safety net exists in the United States is intended more as a protective shield for the rich than a means to sustain the poor. “Social service workers in the US have for years now been trained to work in programs that stabilize poverty, reinforce white…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Sugar Hill Play-date v. Oz-low Piece Plan
26 Aug 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Oz-Low Piece Process allows bombing hospitals, patients in Surgery, just as it allows bombing schools, shelters, Mosques, electric and water treatment plants and homes!
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Mass Murder as Political Marketing
26 Aug 2014
by Dr. TP Wilkinson The CIA’s infamous program to crush the resistance to U.S. occupation of South Vietnam is largely remembered as a gigantic campaign of assassination that claimed tens of thousands of lives. However, the Phoenix Program is best understood as an extension of U.S. propaganda.