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Bill Quigley
BAR Morning Shot September 17, 2010
17 Sep 2010
Bill Quigley
Black Agenda Morning Shot: Thursday, September 20, 2010
20 Sep 2010
Bill Quigley
Black Agenda Morning Shot: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
21 Sep 2010
Bill Quigley
New Test Shows Key Witnesses Lied at Mumia Abu-Jamal Trial
22 Sep 2010
by Dave Lindorff and Linn Washington Hard science calls into question the veracity of key prosecution witnesses in the trail that convicted Mumia Abu-Jamal of killing a Philadelphia police officer. Two journalists arranged a ballistics test that “reignites questions about how police…
Tamara K. Nopper
Why I Oppose Repealing DADT and Passage of the Dream Act
22 Sep 2010
by Tamara K. Nopper Progressives generally line up behind repeal the military’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell policies on homosexuality and in favor of the Dream Act, which provides a route to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants that serve in uniform. But, is it moral for anti-war folks to…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
October 17 through 23 is 3rd Annual Congo Week
22 Sep 2010
Six million Congolese have died from starvation and war since 1997. The cause has not been, as Western media would have us believe, inscrutable African ethnic conflicts, but the West's hunger for their country's vital mineral resources, which power our aeropsace, automotive and information tech…
Bill Quigley
Who was Behind the Rwandan Genocide? Rwanda’s Bloody Record and the History of UN Coverups
22 Sep 2010
by Christopher Black The riches of the Congo were always the prize for Rwandan Tutsi rebel leader Paul Kagame and his Ugandan mentor and commander, President Yoweri Museveni. When millions of Rwandan Hutus fled Kagame’s invading Tutsi forces into Congo in 1994, Kagame followed, massacring them…
Bill Quigley
Poverty Wages
21 May 2008
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor How do we understand the historical reluctance of average whites, to ally themselves with nonwhites and fight against racism that ultimately drives down their own wages and living standards too? It's not a new question, but there may be new…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Renters: The Other Housing Crisis
22 Sep 2010
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The more than half of Black Americans that pay rent are the butt end of government housing policy. The U.S. makes a religion out of home ownership, but “only 4.5 million renters in this country receive some level of government subsidy. Public housing,…
Bill Quigley
BA Morning Shot 9.23.10: Who Got The Camera?
23 Sep 2010