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C. Uzondu
Colonizing Cassava
21 Apr 2010
by C. Uzondu When huge corporations start talking about improving the harvests of foods the poor depend on to survive, watch out! Those crops are about to be colonized, made more expensive and genetically altered. Casava is the latest target of global agro-industry.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
U.S. Wages Food War Against Somalia
24 Feb 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In Somalia, the United States has reverted to ancient siege tactics to starve the people into submission. The U.S. seeks to prevent food aid from getting to areas controlled by Shabab resistance fighters. However, “if international aid were restricted to areas…
Mohamed Hassan
Who Demonizes Eritrea and Why?
17 Feb 2010
by Mohamed Hassan Eritrea is among the targets of the U.S. imperial offensive in the Horn of Africa. Under American pressure, the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Red Sea coast nation, claiming Eritrea aids fighters resisting the U.S.-backed puppet regime in Somalia. Washington’…
Bill Quigley
Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success?
05 Mar 2008
by Bill Quigley
Bill Quigley
‘Less Meeting, More Fighting!’: Lessons Learned by Grassroots Katrina and Tsunami Social Activists
30 May 2007
by Bill Quigley American activists were startled to find that Indians could not comprehend the passivity of the U.S. public to the ejection of Katrina survivors from their home city and state, in the wake of the flood. "If this happened in India, there would be a revolution," said one Indian…
Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: President Barancklin Husseinalo Roosobamavelt
10 Dec 2008
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez "President-Elect Obama has promised us a massive public works program that will put two and a half million people to work in various forms of ‘green' industry" - a promise that may or may not turn out to be worth something. "Green" is a shapeless category that…
Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: Evacuate Israel to the “heartland”
21 Jan 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez Israel in its present configuration and location "is just not working out." Its behavior isn't suited to Palestine - a bad choice, in hindsight, for a Jewish homeland. Better to "offer the new Israeli government the states of Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas,"…
Bill Quigley
Waiters
02 Sep 2009
by Raymond Nat Turner Ever attended a sumptuous repast where everything you wanted was out of reach, unavailable, "off the table". To Raymond Nat Turner, poet-impresario of Oakland's UpSurge Jazz, this sounds suspiciously familiar. Could it happen??
Bill Quigley
The Great Debate
31 Dec 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet In these historic and unprecedented times, questions of great importance loom before us. Latte or mocha? Chili dogs or sauerkraut? Leather or cloth interior? Our choices, the learned and knowledgeable tell us, do matter…
Bill Quigley
Katrina Deaths at New Orleans Hospital Revisited
28 Apr 2010
From On The Media When New Orleans flooded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, patients and doctors at the Memorial Medical Center were stranded without power and facing dwindling supplies of medicine. By the time the ordeal was over, as many as eleven elderly, mostly Black patients were dead – some…