Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
The Gulf Region as a New “Sacrifice Zone”
14 Jul 2010
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Obama administration has a double BP problem: the oil giant and the other BP: Black People. “It appears that BP and the Obama administration find it easier to…
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The Ugly Underside of World Cup Mania
14 Jul 2010
by Linn Washington, Jr. In South Africa, pride over national soccer recognition combines with outrage that the poor are having to defer their needs for the sake of the global show. Apartheid at…
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What To Do With The Negroes?
14 Jul 2010
by Kalamu ya Salaam A people more wedded, more rooted than any other to New Orleans, is ejected like an alien intrusion. “Although poor blacks controlled none of the city’s major resources,…
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What Does a Poll Have To Do With It?
14 Jul 2010
by Ron Kipling Williams Polls are over-rated, as are the people who are polled. Polls measure people’s lies to and about other people, and are irrelevant to what they will actually do. In the…
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Paul Street on Obama & the Real World of Power; Rosa Clemente --Taking Risks for Justice; Jared Ball, Last Word on the USSF; Decline of Black Detroit; Unhealthy People in Unhealthy Neighborhoods – Black Agenda Radio on PRN, the Progressive Radio Network
07 Jul 2010
Corporate Obama Obama’s election “was a pretty nice deal for the top one percent that owns half the wealth,” says Paul Street, author of the new book, The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in…
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A Philadelphia Story: George Washington’s Slaves Slept Here
07 Jul 2010
by Linn Washington, Jr. George Washington not only kept slaves in the first official Executive Mansion in Philadelphia, he “carefully rotated slaves in and out of the residence…to avoid…
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The Two Sides of the Same Coin: Global Capitalism and U.S. Militarism
07 Jul 2010
by Benjamin Woods Social movements inevitably arise to challenge American imperial goals. “To counter this trend, the United States, the military arm of transnational capital, will display more…
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WBAIX Launches Daily Programming on the Net
02 Jul 2010
by The Editors More than a year after a new board majority assumed control of WBAI-FM, Pacifica’s New York radio station, the losing side in what they called “the coup” has set up shop…
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U.S. Citizen Falsely Accused of Rwanda Genocide Rape Crimes
02 Jul 2010
by keith harmon snow On June 24, 2010, U.S. agents in Manchester, New Hampshire arrested Rwandan genocide survivor Beatrice Munyenyezi, a Hutu and a U.S. citizen since 2004. Charged with lying on…
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Saving the Congo, Or Not: One Piece At A Time
02 Jul 2010
by Netfa Freeman The most resource-rich region of Africa also “experiences the least socio-political and economic control over its ‘riches’ than any other part of Africa. Fifty years…