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Bill Quigley
Foreclosure Storm: Minorities Swept Up in Greater Numbers
22 Jun 2010
by Doug Miller The data are finally starting to come in, and the numbers are horrifying. The Great Recession inflicted wounds on Black America that will cripple communities for years to come. Depreciation of foreclosure-devastated neighborhoods will cause between $193 billion and $180…
Bill Quigley
We Need ACORN
22 Jun 2010
by David Swanson The national grassroots organization ACORN, assassinated by corporate media and the Right last year with the help of many Democrats, is mourned by its former communications director. ACORN leaves a void that must be refilled. “Here was a community organization bringing…
Bill Quigley
Can We “Fix” the Oil and Financial Crisis Before It's Too Late?
22 Jun 2010
by Danny Schechter, author of Plunder: The Crime of Our Time Corporate media pretend the U.S. economy is healing nicely and that Wall Street has learned how to run a more responsible casino. However, sober economists predict “another wave of foreclosures and future bank losses of more…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Killing Children
15 Jun 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Western corporate media’s antennae are super-sensitive to atrocities committed against children – except when their own countries are the perpetrators. The deaths of tens of thousands – even millions – of children by bombings and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town
23 Jun 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Great Gusher in the Gulf is a political, not simply an economic and environmental, crisis. “No amount of public disgust at BP…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Death of Black Politics
22 Jun 2010
by BAR editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley New York Rep. Charles Rangel is among the many Black elected officials that make periodic figurative and actual pilgrimages to Israel, swearing undying loyalty. In a shamelessly groveling performance last week, Rangel took part in a…
Larry Greene
Hubert Harrison: Key Link in the Two Great Trends of the Black Liberation Movement
02 Jul 2010
A review by Larry A. Greene In the first quarter of the 20th century, the major, competing trends of Black American political thought were already in vivid evidence: Black nationalist and socialist tendencies vied with corporate-backed accommodation. In Harlem, an extraordinary St.…
Bill Quigley
Saving the Congo, Or Not: One Piece At A Time
02 Jul 2010
by Netfa Freeman The most resource-rich region of Africa also “experiences the least socio-political and economic control over its ‘riches’ than any other part of Africa. Fifty years after nominal independence, the Democratic Republic of Congo – where five million have died in the past…
Bill Quigley
Trial Delayed in New Fake Terror Case
22 Jun 2010
by Carl Strock The Obama administration manufacturers phony terror plots with just as much…
Bill Quigley
Black Congress, Critical of Obama, to Convene in D.C. to Set Black Agenda
22 Jun 2010
by APSP The Black political party that confronted then-candidate Barack Obama on the campaign trail in August, 2008 with the simple question, “What about the Black community, Mr. Obama?” holds its annual Congress in Washington, next month. African People’s Socialist Party chairman…