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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Shirley Sherrod’s Righteous Anger
28 Jul 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Like ACORN, Sherrod was victimized by a Democratic administration which revels in its willingness to assist the right in throwing its own people under the proverbial bus.” Yet, even when the media narrative shifts to sympathy for Sherrod,…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White Citizenship
04 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley After all is said and done, what much of the so-called Tea Party wants is a return to America as a White Man’s Country. There are a few obstacles in their way, including the U.S. Constitution, but that’s not insurmountable. “On a daily basis…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Public Theft and the End of Empire
12 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If it feels like this economic roller coaster ride is stuck on down, you’re right. At the same historical moment that the public sector is put on a starvation diet, the demands of the military reach record levels. “The height of brute force…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Israel, Big Money and Obama
19 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Wealthy Americans whose paramount issue is unlimited support for Israel create huge distortions in U.S. politics, bending presidents to their will. Barack Obama’s career has long been nurtured by one such billionaire hyper-Zionist, who hopes to…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: “Sacred” Ground Zero
25 Aug 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If American whites practiced what many of them preach to Muslims, they would ban themselves from building cultural institutions of any kind in much of the United States, since so many places are sites of depraved atrocities and mass killings…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Show Me Your Papers, New York!
08 Sep 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States has become an awful caricature of 1940s Hollywood movies on fascism, where “the usual suspects” are made to show their “papers.” Not just along the southern border, but also within 100 miles of the Canadian Great White North,…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ernest Withers the Informant
22 Sep 2010
by BAR editor and senior Margaret Kimberley The trusted “movement” photographer was a spy for J. Edgar Hoover. Ernest Withers apparently cashed in on his close relationship with unsuspecting Black Sixties activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Withers is dead, but not forgiven. “The…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Foreclosure Fraud
13 Oct 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It is senseless to expect Democrats to save the people from the worsening housing crisis, since Democrats are as culpable for the disaster as the Republicans. It was Democrats in the House and Senate that passed a bill to allow banks to…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Political Snobbery
04 Nov 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Increasingly, the Democratic Party is a near-empty vessel. Democrats “look down their noses at Tea Partiers with misspelled words on their signs but exalt Clinton era drug enforcement policies which filled the jails and the enactment of NAFTA…
Bill Quigley
Has Change Come to Post-Katrina New Orleans?
29 Apr 2009
If you want to measure the distance between George Bush and Barack Obama on domestic political issues, Katrina provides the best test. What emerges is a startling continuity of policy toward New Orleans between the Republican and Democratic White Houses – especially regarding the fate of public…