Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
High Noon in Chicago: The Sheriff as Hero
15 Oct 2008
Although homeowners get most of the sympathy, renters are also victimized by the monsoon of foreclosures. A big city sheriff distinguishes himself. Click the flash player…
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The Presidency for Sale: Small Contributors Waste Their Money
15 Oct 2008
Progressives who believe they are influencing Barack Obama by sending him cash, are neither influencing the candidate nor helping their causes. Click the flash player below to hear this…
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The Illusion of Post-Racial America
15 Oct 2008
by Aman Gill "Why does racial conflict no longer generate the same kind of heat" - the militant response - as 40 years ago? What is it about the "post-racial" or "post-civil rights" era that…
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ACORN Is Not the Nut Here
15 Oct 2008
by David Swanson With total predictability, white supremacists, heavily clustered in the Republican Party, are raising the alarm about two grave threats to national survival: 1) Poor Black…
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McCain and Alaska’s Toxic Termagant
15 Oct 2008
by John Maxwell U.S. public opinion seems to be inching closer to world opinion. "That it is why an English worldwide poll has found that the world wants Obama to win. The preference is almost…
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Remembering Ahmed Sekou Touré as Guinea Turns 50
15 Oct 2008
by Norman Otis Richmond It is fashionable among the historically challenged to belittle the founding revolutionary fathers of Black Africa as ineffectual dreamers. The late Sekou Toure, former…
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Obama and the Derivatives Merchants
15 Oct 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama's star shines brighter than ever (whose wouldn't, in comparison to John McCain?) despite his intimate association with "the very same…
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Opportunity’s Autumn Burial
08 Oct 2008
by Kemet Mawakana a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet This week the Seven Foot Poet nods at what is, and points to what's possible. Which is really more important? The world that…
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Security Expert: Diebold Voting Machines Designed To Be Hacked
08 Oct 2008
Stephen Spoonamore is a registered Republican, leading cybersecurity expert, and a whistleblower. In early September he gave an explosive deposition on the means and methods by which the 2004…
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AFRICOM: America's Military Foot in Africa's Doorway
08 Oct 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon On October 1 the US launched AFRICOM, the Pentagon's outpost in Africa. Commanded by a Black American general and incorporating State Department and other civilian…