Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
U.S. Business Says No Mas to Cuba Embargo
10 Dec 2008
U.S. business groups have joined the vast majority of the world's nations in requesting that President-Elect Obama quickly end the 47-year-long American trade embargo against Cuba. The economic…
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Cholera Outbreak Outcome of West’s War on Zimbabwe
10 Dec 2008
by Stephen Gowans Zimbabwe is facing multiple crises because of savage western assaults on its economy and the viability of its state machinery. The goal is regime change. U.S.-British sanctions…
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Human Rights Day Celebration in Gaza
10 Dec 2008
by Abukar Arman December 10 marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet the document holds no sway in Palestine, where "an entire population is being brutally…
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Obama Revitalizes Disaster Capitalism: The Shock Doctrine Receives a Make-Over
03 Dec 2008
by Carolyn Baker The president-elect's "adherence to neoliberal, globalist policies couched in the rhetoric of ‘change' but offering no substantial departure from the ultimate strategies of…
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The Great Land Giveaway: Neo-Colonialism by Invitation
03 Dec 2008
by James Petras Newly emerging nations have joined with the usual neocolonial suspects in a massive bid to buy up poorer countries' available land. How do they pull it off? "The process of agro…
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The Human Zoo: Making Jamaica Fit For Foreign Corporations
03 Dec 2008
by John Maxwell Jamaica is going to "borrow money to destroy the integrity of Jamaica's loveliest town, dilapidated though it may be now, in the interest of a foreign corporation." After…
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The White, White House Press Corps
03 Dec 2008
by Sam Fulwood III Black White House reporters are dwindling, even as the nation's first Black president prepares to move in. "We are going to integrate the Oval Office long before we integrate…
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Liar, Liar!! Barack Obama's Secretary of War
02 Dec 2008
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Some Obama supporters are wringing their hands over the selection of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Hillary was, after all, a consistent…
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The Neo-Yeltsin Administration? The Obama Letdown
30 Nov 2008
by Michael Hudson Although president-elect Barack Obama ran on a promise of "change", explains economist Michael Hudson, one has to look awfully hard and more than a little wishfully at his…
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A Little Matter of Genocide
26 Nov 2008
an audio speech by Ward Churchill Until recently, scholars have taught generations of American youth that there were at most a million natives in what is now the continental US when Europeans…