Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
The "Rule of Law" in the Obama Era
17 Feb 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. In Obama's America, the "rule of law" is nothing that predatory bankers.…
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Obama's First Press Conference: Repeating Old Lies, Dodging Old Truths
11 Feb 2009
So how's that "change" thing working out? Are we getting better, or more of the same, and why? In his first press conference, Obama labeled Iran a destabilizing influence in the Middle East because…
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Reconstructing Black New Orleans: Show Us The Money
11 Feb 2009
Click the flash player above to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, or click here to download an mp3 copy. The unavailability of funds to rebuild Black New Orleans while trillions are…
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Faith Based Obama Expands Corruption of Clergy
11 Feb 2009
The Bush administration flung hundreds of millions of tax dollars at unscrupulous pastors in its effort to build a political patronage machine. Instead of dismantling this machinery,…
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How Racism Sparked the Financial Crisis
11 Feb 2009
by Joe Sims From who gets loans and credit, to who is deemed worth of "restructuring" or bailouts, to which neighborhoods home buyers are steered to, race has as profound an impact upon…
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Medicare-For-All Will Create 2.6 Million New Jobs, Say CA Nurses
04 Feb 2009
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon With the inaguration only two or three weeks behind us, pundits and politicians are already urging us to take our eyes off the health care football while they "fix…
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Is Black GOP Chairmanship a Victory For Black People?
04 Feb 2009
If Black faces in high places are collective victories for African Americans, then Michael Steele's rise to chairman of the Republican National Committee is a plus. By the same logic, we are…
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The Imperial Obama is Frustrated on Zimbabwe
04 Feb 2009
The Obama administration was eager "to show its fangs against Mugabe in Africa" and seethed when its offensive against Zimbabwe's government was blunted by a power-sharing agreement. US Ambassador to…
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U.S. Corporate Media Propaganda Machine
04 Feb 2009
A study by the media watchdog group FAIR shows how four of the most influential U.S. newspapers "use their editorial pages to put Venezuela in a negative human rights light, while glossing over Latin…
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A Message to the African Political Scientist
04 Feb 2009
by Benjamin Woods Young Africans in America require exposure to genuine Black political scientists, the kind that will "articulate an African worldview that is distinct from their colonizers." What'…