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Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: Obama’s message to the world: Let the U.S. ruling class pound you in the face
14 Jan 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez Obama is silent as the grave - Palestinian graves - about Gaza, but shoots off his mouth in what appears to be a prelude to war against Social Security. The "Herald of Hope and Change" shows a "cowardice" on Palestine that "is beyond appalling," while huffing…
Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: “Can you defend yourself?”
04 Feb 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez The social disintegration endemic to late capitalism in America reaches new lows in the current meltdown. The purposely de-skilled classes turn on each other, as the "social Darwinist ethos carries the day." A young woman acquaintance of the author is…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Did Barack Obama Just Appoint An Underqualified Stooge and Privatizer Secretary of Education?
24 Dec 2008
Black Agenda Report's Bruce Dixon interviews Chicago educator and activist George Schmidt The short answer seems to be "yes." Before being appointed CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan never saw the inside of a classroom as a teacher. This is probably a good thing, since Duncan does…
Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: Ode to Charles Rex Fisher/Christmas Night in Harlem
31 Dec 2008
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez A teacher/activist offers some holiday ruminations on education: "Let us celebrate punitive testing, carved up tables and chairs, chain link fence in the stairwells and high strung civil servants who are just marking time until they can get away from the…
Paul Amar
The Sea of Shoes: Why Egypt's Progressives Win
09 Feb 2011
by Paul Amar U.S. corporate media coverage of the unfolding events in Egypt provide little or no window into the true social and political dynamics of the country – who the actual popular actors are in this history-shaking drama. The author describes the people and movements behind the…
Bill Quigley
Remembering Fred Hampton
03 Dec 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Congressman Bobby Rush, the Color of Change and the Color of Truth
24 Nov 2010
In the next Congress, Chicago's Bobby Rush wants to the the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. While there is much to like and admire about the congressman's long career, Color of Change's James Rucker points out, putting Bobby Rush in charge…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Top Ten Reasons Why Black Leaders Are Ignoring President Obama's Good Cop-Bad Cop Attack on Social Security
18 Nov 2010
After a decades-long drumbeat led by the Peterson Foundation, corporate media, Wall Street and their minions of both parties, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare are under attack. The current raid is being led by nobody less than Barack Obama himself. Only Nixon could go to China, only Clinton…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Corporate-School Reform VS Democracy Is Still the Issue in DC's November Election
23 Sep 2010
The mostly black District of Columbia has been run like a plantation, a colony for as long as anybody can recall. Habitual defiance of the democratic will of DC voters and residents is safe for Congress, where DC has neither a vote nor an effective voice. But DC' mayor was booted out after a…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama, Social Security and the Final Irrelevance of the Black Misleadership Class
10 Nov 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon With a black president leading the charge to eviscerate Medicare, Medicaid and social security in the name of “deficit reduction,” what is there left of black politics? What is the relevance of so-called black leaders in the Democratic party, and the…