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Bill Quigley
Call Me Barry: Obama’s Tough Love
16 Dec 2009
by Sikivu Hutchinson The days of “Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m proud” are no more. Young African Americans in search of work find their heritage a hopeless drag on upward mobility. “Obama’s Talented Tenth magic,” it appears, does not rub off. “In some instances, graduates of historically black…
Bill Quigley
DNA and “the Banality of Evil”
21 Jul 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson First, the criminal justice system failed the Black victims of an LA serial killer. Now, the system embraces a family DNA aggregator approach that is certain to further stigmatize African Americans through shared genetic markers. “The wholesale over-incarceration of African…
Bill Quigley
Barack Obama's Not-So Non-Ideological Inaugural Address
28 Jan 2009
by Paul Street The new president dismisses "ideology" in order to promote his own brand of neo-liberalism. He is a partisan in the corporate war-against-all who slimes the opposition as purveyors of "dogma," "stale" ideas and "tired" recriminations, a proponent of government "that works" who…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Glen Ford: “The Re-Awakening of Arab Nationalism is a Gargantuan Problem for U.S. Imperialism”
09 Mar 2011
The editors The United States is finding it impossible to devise a coherent policy in the Arab world “because the very existence of a resurgent Arab nationalism eliminates a whole range of options for the United States and the Europeans,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford, at a conference of…
Bill Quigley
Israel’s Secret Nuclear Alliance with Racist South Africa
27 May 2010
by Stephen Gowans In the mid-70s, the world’s two pariah states, Israel and South Africa, sought to seal their relationship with a nuclear kiss. A new book claims Israel tried to sell South Africa nuclear-tipped missiles – the price was too high. Israel denies the charge, but Tel Aviv has…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Dr. King’s Televised Challenge to Obama: Tavis Smiley's Anti-War MLK
31 Mar 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Since the onset of the Obama phenomenon, Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth and death days have been “polluted” by false and ahistorical comparisons between Obama and MLK. The two men represent opposite political poles: one, a radical opponent of imperial war and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s CIA
31 Mar 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Global public opinion has been called the “second superpower” – second only to the United States in capacity to shape world events. But the premiere intelligence agency of the reigning state superpower routinely manipulates world opinion to suit…
Bill Quigley
A Comeback for Chattel Slavery? Remarkable Revelations from a Top Obama Aide
07 Apr 2010
by Geraldine Winstanley, AN political writer Hot off the presses: slavery is about to stage a return engagement, by presidential decree. “This and the president’s repeated visits to Africa have helped him develop a sense of slavery’s rich contribution to the development of what he calls ‘this…
Bill Quigley
Israel And Apartheid: By People Who Knew Apartheid
07 Apr 2010
Israel And Apartheid: By People Who Knew Apartheid Apartheid is an abomination to civilization, and a crime against humanity. That apartheid is the ruling order in Israel is beyond question – just ask those who know the diabolical system best.
Kamau Franklin
Does the Black President Owe Anything to the Black Community?
16 Mar 2011
by Kamau Franklin For the first time in generations, a presidential election campaign saw virtually no demands from the Black side of the electorate. Two years into Barack Obama’s term, a code of silence remains in force. “Are we so wrapped up in the symbolism of a black president that we…