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Bill Quigley
Critical Thinking Amid the Elation
17 Nov 2008
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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama and Lieberman: Two of a Kind
19 Nov 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Why did Barack Obama save Joe Lieberman from being stripped of his top committee chairmanship? The short answer is, the two men "are equally cynical." The most rightwing Democrat in the Senate actively campaigned for McCain/Palin, "believes in…
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Dear ‘Brother President’: Embrace Liberation Theology
12 Nov 2008
by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr. The author congratulates the president-elect on his having run a “great…eloquent, dignified, and clean race,” but then admonishes: “You blew a tremendous teaching opportunity in teaching America about Liberation Theology when you put some distance between you…
Bill Quigley
Black Joblessness: Never a Priority
12 Nov 2008
"Black unemployment levels are almost never considered to be intolerable - that is, a problem of such magnitude it demands fixing." We're sorry, but the audio of this BA Radio commentary is no longer available.
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Somalia: The Specter of Detrimental Trusteeship
12 Nov 2008
by Abukar Arman Somalia, invaded and occupied by Ethiopia with the encouragement of the United States, is now to be reduced to a "trusteeship" of Addis Ababa, the aggressor. "This is a case of putting the fox in charge of the barn so that he may teach the chicken how to function in an…
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Congolese People Sacrificed for International Games and Profits
12 Nov 2008
by Roxanne Stasyszyn The war that has already cost 5.5 million Congolese their lives has been rekindled, the ghastly product of "a rapacious international commerce that has descended on Congo." Amidst the carnage, displacement and starvation, international "humanitarian" outfits navigate, "…
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Eshu’s blues: Obama won. Now whatcha gonna do?
12 Nov 2008
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Barack Obama: The Empire’s New Clothes
12 Nov 2008
by Paul Street Barack Obama and his followers continue to revise the history of his ascendance, pretending his campaign was rooted among the "outsiders." The public line is a fiction, as even the most rudimentary research reveals. In fact, Obama's own words document his intense courtship of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Told You So
12 Nov 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It's not as if we at BAR didn't warn you. Barack Obama's first major act as president-elect was to select as his chief of staff Rep. Rahm Emanuel, whose "role as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee was to insure that…
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Morning in Obamerica: Change, Change, Change?
05 Nov 2008
by Ishmael Reed What has Obama wrought? In the euphoria, can reality reclaim its rightful place? The parameters of rhetorical change are boundless, propelled into the nether-reaches of nonsensicality by hyper-speak and super-wishfullness that can never supplant the real world of entrenched class…