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Bill Quigley
Soldiers Defecting from Somalia’s U.S.-Backed Regime
19 May 2010
by Benjamin Joffe-Walt Washington’s puppet government in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, holds sway over only a few blocks of real estate, propped up by U.S.-paid foreign troops. The “government’s” own soldiers are deserting almost as quickly as they can be recruited. “The transitional ‘government’…
Bill Quigley
Jena Justice: Drug Bust or Racist Revenge?
19 May 2010
by Jordan Flaherty The sheriff in Jena, Louisiana is carrying out a vendetta against the town’s Black population, say residents, under the guise of fighting drug dealers. "They will get put in handcuffs, put behind bars today and never see the light of day again,” Sheriff Franklin shouted as he…
Bill Quigley
Taking Back Homes from the Banks: Exercising the Human Right to Housing
19 May 2010
by Bill Quigley The United States has a surplus of housing, especially after the artificial boom that preceded the Big Bust. There are “very real contradictions in the way we provide housing – massive surpluses in the market that led to a collapse in credit and simultaneously people without shelter…
Bill Quigley
The Rise of Rand Paul: Dissecting the Reactionary Right on Civil Rights, the Environment, and Worker Safety
27 May 2010
by Anthony DiMaggio MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is credited with “outing” Tea Party champion Rand Paul, winner of the Republican senatorial nomination in Kentucky, as a racist. In point of fact, Paul's opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act has long been known. Most of the corporate media…
Bill Quigley
What Really Separates the Tea Party from The Black Panther Party
27 May 2010
by Crystal Hayes TheRoot.com, the online site targeted at Blacks but owned by the huge Washington Post corporation, recently ran an idiotic piece comparing the Tea Party to the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense – an insult to history and a painful affront to the author, the daughter…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Elena Kagan is Obama’s Waterloo. And Ours
19 May 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Elena Kagan is the worst evidence that voting for Democrats is necessary to safeguard the U.S. Supreme Court. “Kagan is a blank slate careerist with political expediency as her only qualification,” who found it beyond her powers as Harvard…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Iran Apocalypse Soon
27 May 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Obama administration’s behavior toward Iran is eerily reminiscent of George Bush’s mobilization for war against Iraq in the half-year before the actual invasion. A recently leaked Pentagon directive and a host of other factors are “consistent with…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s Blues: Make Them Drink It
02 Jun 2010
by michael hureaux perez The Earth bleeds from a deep wound in the Gulf of Mexico, and humanity suffers the agonies of a thousand cuts – many if not most of them inflicted by the United States and the corporations it serves. What is a progressive to do? “We must begin by conducting a…
Bill Quigley
Texas School Board Disappears Race History
02 Jun 2010
by Linn Washington, Jr. The South is rising again – at least according to the narratives of books vetted by the Texas Board of Education. Right-wing icons and shibboleths are in, the struggle against racism is out. “It is unlikely that students will receive Education Board sanctioned…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Yes, Obama is “Engaged” – in a Colossal Crime
02 Jun 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Corporate media pretend to measure degrees of presidential “engagement” with the Gulf crisis – an “oceanic version of Chernobyl.” Such superficial reporting is totally disengaged from the truth that screams from the depths of the sea: “Huge corporations are…