Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
FCC Spreads Digital Disinformation on TV Transition
17 Sep 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Thanks to corporate media's longstanding refusal to report on itself, along with a multimillion dollar campaign of public disinformation paid for by the…
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BALLGAME!
17 Sep 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a the Seven Foot Poet What's the difference between sports fans and some of the people who frequent side shows, zoos, freak shows, wax museums and Ripley's Believe…
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Palin Propaganda Machine
17 Sep 2008
by Sikivu Hutchinson Middle-American (i.e., white) moral hypocrisy is in graphic relief this campaign season. "Had the Palin family soap opera played out in the Obama household his bid for the…
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“Amazing Self-Correction”: Reflections on Barack Obama and the Perverse Racial Politics of the Post
17 Sep 2008
by Paul Street The closer Barack Obama gets to the White House, the quicker some white folks are to declare that the United States is a "self-correcting" nation that is miraculously curing itself of…
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White Privilege, White Entitlement and the 2008 Election
17 Sep 2008
Normal 0 by Tim Wise A nation that claims it has already learned - and "changed" - so much in the racial arena, should at least be conversant in the definition of "white privilege." In fact, many…
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No Jobs Make Mean Streets
17 Sep 2008
by James Thindwa "After nearly 30 years of conservative discourse that promotes incarceration as the solution, local governments must resuscitate the idea that jobs and economic revival are the…
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Cuba and Haiti: Children of Prometheus
17 Sep 2008
by John Maxwell If a hurricane misses the United States, it doesn't exist in the minds of many Americans. This has been an especially cruel hurricane season for Cuba and Haiti, the countries that "…
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Say No to Lying, Spying and Torture
10 Sep 2008
by Cynthia McKinney At what point do the American people say, "No"? When the Pentagon admits it "lost" $2.3 trillion? "Yet both the Democratic and Republican nominees plan to increase the…
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Taxicab Confessions: More Intervention, More War, More Lies
10 Sep 2008
by Billy Buntin Take a ride with a Somali taxi driver and you might learn something. "European and Western intervention from the past is the number one cause of the troubles we're seeing in…
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Great White Snark
10 Sep 2008
by John Maxwell For personal reasons rooted in his childhood, the author tends to "see many politicians as comic book characters." If John McCain had tapped Joe Lieberman for Number Two,…