Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Hiding America’s Crime: Mogadishu Empty and in Ruins
08 Oct 2008
Somalia's capital city has been emptied of its previous population of nearly three million people - "the most ignored tragedy in the world," according to Human Rights Watch. Click the…
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Obama and McCain on Iraq: Imperial Double-Talk
08 Oct 2008
Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama have any intention of leaving Iraq. McCain is a more honest imperialist, while Obama "plays word games to mask the same ambitions." Click…
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Gwen Ifill and Corporate Conformity
08 Oct 2008
The Public Broadcasting newsperson's new book should have been no concern to Republicans, and is bound to get good reviews from white corporate media. Click the flash…
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Obama and the Funding of Black Community Turnout
08 Oct 2008
by Ron Walters The Obama campaign is repeating the Democrats' behavior in 2004, when party money bags bypassed Black churches and community organizations in get out the vote campaigns. "Again in…
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Jay Z Stumpin' For Prez?
08 Oct 2008
by Paul Scott Jay Z is stumping for Barack Obama, "via free rap concerts," but the author wonders "who is out there promoting Obama-ism, the Jay Z who was just another black kid with big dreams…
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FCC Commissioner to Public in Atlanta: "Shut Up And Watch TV!"
01 Oct 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon In Atlanta, the FCC's sham “Digital TV Consumer Education” town hall meeting was a near-secret affair, held in a conference room in rather than the advertised…
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Alaska's Blacks and Palin: a Strained Relationship
01 Oct 2008
by Linn Washington, Jr. Alaska is one of 29 states that celebrates Juneteenth, marking the day Texas slaves learned they had been emancipated. But the holiday, and Black concerns in general,…
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White America Lives in Vicious Racial Denial – Obama Is Making It Worse
01 Oct 2008
by Paul Street Defending Barack Obama against blatantly racist attacks is made more complicated by - Obama, himself, who avers that, if he loses in November, it won't because of his race. This,…
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Racism As Reflex at a Time of Crisis
01 Oct 2008
by Tim Wise No matter the nature of the crisis, white supremacists will construct a logic that blames the "Other" - usually Blacks. Professional racists Neil Cavuto and Rush Limbaugh claim that…
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Zimbabwe And The Battle of Ideas
25 Sep 2008
by Netfa Freeman To hear the American and European corporate media tell it, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is the worst villain since Hitler. These same corporate organs - and their…