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Is Obama Even Worse Than Bush?
16 Mar 2011
by David Swanson George Bush threatened and blustered, while President Obama’s m.o. is to “operate through deceptive propaganda.” But substantively, Obama pursues – and expands on – Bush’s policies, and adds new twists of his own. “Obama should be prosecuted for his crimes,” but “the reason I…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Japan’s Katrina
16 Mar 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Japan’s nuclear industry, which was never favored by majorities of the Japanese people, has been cracked, drowned and discredited by the earthquake and tsunami. Many U.S. reactors share the same design flaws and inherent dangers, yet “…
Bill Quigley
I Wanna Be A Macho Man: The Prosperity Gospel According to Eddie Long
30 Sep 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson Allegations that Bishop Eddie Long lured young Black men to become his sexual playthings should come as no surprise, since his brand of “faith pimping spiritual ministry translates into emotional manipulation, psychological control, and sexual exploitation.”…
Bill Quigley
President Obama and the Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: An Analysis
19 Nov 2008
by Ali Abunimah The optimism and symbolic significance of the election of the US's first black president are keenly felt in the Middle East. But undoing the damage several US administrations have done over a generation, and particularly that done by the Bush-Cheney regime will be a tall order.…
Bill Quigley
Odetta: A Legend for the Ages
19 Nov 2008
by Norman (Otis) Richmond The famed singer-activist Odetta was hospitalized over the weekend, suffering from kidney failure. Mr. Richmond, writing from Toronto, is a longtime student of revolutionary culture. He attended a performance by the 77-year-old icon, last month.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Georgia Dept of Corrections Withholding Medical Care to Brutalized Inmates, Retaliatory Campaign Continues
22 Mar 2011
From the correspondence of their attorney and the testimony of their families and friends, details are emerging which indicate a still ongoing campaign of brutal beatings and withheld medical care in the wake of the December 2010 inmate strike in Georgia prisons. Does the fact that the Georgia…
Bill Quigley
Lawless Capital, Rushing to Armageddon
17 Nov 2008
The rule of law has been cast aside in the mad frenzy to loot the wealth of a nation before George Bush leaves office. "Wall Street has succeeded in establishing a kind of privatized martial law economic regime," in which trillions of dollars are secretly transferred to unnamed corporations. We'…
Bill Quigley
Obama, King and Kennedy: Empire and the “End” of Racism
21 Jan 2009
An interview with Juan Santos In claiming that Blacks had “already come 90 percent of the way” to equality, candidate Barack Obama employed “strategy and tactics that served white racism and served to deeply harm peoples of color by erasing our conditions of life from the imagination of the…
Bill Quigley
Jamaica for Sale
17 Nov 2008
Tourism is Jamaica's biggest source of foreign exchange, but tourist dollar madness threatens to destroy the country. "The hotels are closing down turtle nesting sites and hotel excrement and spoil are killing our reefs at an increasing pace." While the government entertains all manner of…
Bill Quigley
Holding the Obama Administration Accountable, Part 1 of a Series
12 Nov 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon With the election results a week old, the worst thing we can do now is sit back for too long admiring the new president, his family and ourselves for electing him, and "wait and see what he does." No new administration waits till being sworn in before deciding…