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Bill Quigley
Black Agenda Morning Shot: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Wadner Pierre on the occupation of Haiti & "demonstration" elections Pt. 2
14 Dec 2010
Bill Quigley
BAR Morning Shot 12/14/2010
14 Dec 2010
Bill Quigley
Black Agenda Morning Report Monday, December 20, 2010 - Emira Woods on AFRICOM and US Imperialism
21 Dec 2010
Rob Prince
WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. Twisted Ethiopia's Arm to Invade Somalia
21 Dec 2010
by Rob Prince U.S. officials were lying when they claimed to have attempted to restrain Ethiopia from invading neighboring Somalia in late 2006. Newly unveiled documents show that “the Bush Administration pushed Ethiopia to invade Somalia with an eye on crushing the Union of Islamic Courts,”…
J L Samboma
Revising Malcolm X
22 Dec 2010
by J. L. Samboma Jack Barnes, of the Socialist Workers Party, is “fomenting discord where there need be none” with his book on the politics of Malcolm X. The book argues that, after Malcolm’s split with the Nation of Islam, he made a “class break” and ceased to be a Black nationalist or Pan-…
Bill Quigley
What People of Color Should Know About Tax Cut and Deficit Reduction Proposals
14 Dec 2010
by Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Black and Latino lawmakers and their allies should weigh the racial impact of tax giveaways and deficit reduction schemes. Although minorities have benefitted the least from government deficit spending, they will suffer most from austerity measures. Racial wealth…
Bill Quigley
Zimbabwe and the Steep Road to Vindication
14 Dec 2010
by Netfa Freeman Western corporate media assaults on Zimbabwe often center on the alleged corruption and recklessly “anti-white” nature of the country’s land reform program. But a recent British academic study tends to refute European and North American propaganda, arguing that land reform has…
Bill Quigley
Is Warmaking Irrational?
14 Dec 2010
by David Swanson What’s behind our constant wars? Is it biology, culture, economic imperatives, ideology….madness? Whatever the initial motivation, wars are always sustained by lies.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama and Clinton, The Evil Twins
15 Dec 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The two corporate political twins, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, held forth at a joint White House press conference – so tightly matched that no light could be seen to shine between them. Obama soon ceded the room to his comrade in…
Bill Quigley
BAR Morning Shot 12/7/10: Black Studies and Black People
08 Dec 2010