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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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'…
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Torture at Angola Prison
04 Feb 2009
by Jordan Flaherty While the Obama administration promises to halt torture as a matter of U.S. policy and shut down Guantanamo prison, torture remains among the arsenal of barbarities inflicted on…
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Gaza Disaster and the ‘Free Press’
04 Feb 2009
by John Maxwell The BBC refused to broadcast appeals by established UK charities for humanitarian aid to civilian victims of Israel's attack on Gaza, on the grounds that it could not be sure "…
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The New Black Politics
04 Feb 2009
The New Black Politics