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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider on Vacation
14 Jul 2010
BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley is on vacation for the issues of Wednesday, July 14 and July 21. Her “Freedom Rider” column returns to these pages on July 28.
Bill Quigley
The Gulf Region as a New “Sacrifice Zone”
14 Jul 2010
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Obama administration has a double BP problem: the oil giant and the other BP: Black People. “It appears that BP and the Obama administration find it easier to stanch the flow of information than they do the deepwater gusher,” which at some point may cause…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame
21 Jul 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The U.S. war against Somalia expands outwards and “has now blown back to Uganda,” the U.S. ally that, “along with the minority Tutsi dictatorship in Rwanda, is America's most reliable mercenary force in Black Africa.” Ethiopia and Kenya prepare to…
Bill Quigley
The Two Sides of the Same Coin: Global Capitalism and U.S. Militarism
07 Jul 2010
by Benjamin Woods Social movements inevitably arise to challenge American imperial goals. “To counter this trend, the United States, the military arm of transnational capital, will display more military aggression.”
Bill Quigley
A Philadelphia Story: George Washington’s Slaves Slept Here
07 Jul 2010
by Linn Washington, Jr. George Washington not only kept slaves in the first official Executive Mansion in Philadelphia, he “carefully rotated slaves in and out of the residence…to avoid running afoul of the Emancipation Law operative in Pennsylvania after 1780, which barred out-of-…
Bill Quigley
Paul Street on Obama & the Real World of Power; Rosa Clemente --Taking Risks for Justice; Jared Ball, Last Word on the USSF; Decline of Black Detroit; Unhealthy People in Unhealthy Neighborhoods – Black Agenda Radio on PRN, the Progressive Radio Network
07 Jul 2010
Corporate Obama Obama’s election “was a pretty nice deal for the top one percent that owns half the wealth,” says Paul Street, author of the new book, The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power. Street’s 2008 volume, Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics was…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Americans Have No Rights
02 Jul 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Under Barack Obama, the former professor of constitutional law, Americans’ civil liberties have shrunken drastically – to the point that his administration claims the right to execute its citizens without charge or due process of…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
A Blacks vs. Tea Party Free-for-All on the Mall?
02 Jul 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Will established civil rights groups physically confront Glenn Beck’s Tea Party crowd for control of the Washington Mall on August…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
First Black Presidency Has Driven Many African Americans Insane
07 Jul 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford A section of Black America has lost their minds – literally – unable to make contact with reality since November 2008. Despite the horrific and disproportionate damage suffered by Blacks in the Great Recession, a psychologically impaired group of…
Bill Quigley
Why We Sued to Represent Muslim Cleric Aulaqi
04 Aug 2010
by Bill Quigley The Obama Administration wants to kill him, constitutional rights lawyers want to “stop the government from killing him,” but first, the attorneys must win the right to represent Anwar Aulaqi in court. As the young cleric’s father says, “If the government can find him to…