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Bill Quigley
Obama Sells Out America's Youth and Defenders of Civil Liberties with Eric Holder
26 Nov 2008
Normal 0 by Richard Searcy Corporate media focus on Eric Holder's role in the effort to pardon billionaire fugitive Marc Rich: basically, a wealthy man's game. But the author reminds us that, as a U.S. Justice Department official for Washington, DC, Holder was "an extreme drug warrior who…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
26 Nov 2008
Normal 0 Nobody but Americans celebrates Thanksgiving. It is reserved by history and the intent of "the founders" as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar. No Halloween of the imagination can rival the exterminationist reality that was the genesis…
Bill Quigley
What Happy Thanksgiving?
26 Nov 2008
Normal 0 by Netfa Freeman Black Americans should be among the last to celebrate Thanksgiving, a mythology that seeks to absolve white settlers of their intentional eradication of Native Americans. "African descendants in the US aren't primarily responsible for the theft of land or the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Rev. Pinkney – and God – Versus Racism in Michigan
26 Nov 2008
Normal 0 The incarceration of activist Black Rev. Edward Pinkney "marks the first time in modern history that a preacher has been imprisoned for predicting what God might do." At the heart of the story is the Whirlpool Corporation's overlordship of Benton Harbor, Michigan, a 92 percent…
Bill Quigley
Will Somalia Become Obama’s War?
26 Nov 2008
Normal 0 America's joint venture with Ethiopia to invade and occupy Somalia "was not so much an American attempt at regime change, as a cruel conspiracy to plunge Somalia back into the warlord-induced chaos that had reigned since 1991." Barack Obama will have to decide "whether or not to…
Bill Quigley
American Decline Will Be Worse Than U.S. Intelligence Agencies Fear
26 Nov 2008
Normal 0 "American intelligence agencies project that the United States will lose its position of world dominance by the year 2025." They don't know the half of it. Loss of dominance means the end of U.S. imperialism, the only thing that stands between the United States and the Great Unraveling…
Bill Quigley
Fronting for Paramilitaries: Holder, Chaquita and Colombia
26 Nov 2008
Normal 0 by Mario A. Murillo Chiquita Brands was among the U.S. corporations that funded Colombia's rightwing death squads, organized under the umbrella of the United Self-Defense Groups. Known by its acronym, the AUC has butchered thousands of leftists, peasants and shantytown residents in…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Community Organizer VS Corrupt Politician: The December 6 New Orleans Congressional Election
26 Nov 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon The December 6 New Orleans congressional election isn't just a local choice between a privatizing "minority" Republican, a notoriously corrupt Democrat and a caring, competent community organizer running on the Green Party ticket. In these times when…
Bill Quigley
A Little Matter of Genocide
26 Nov 2008
an audio speech by Ward Churchill Until recently, scholars have taught generations of American youth that there were at most a million natives in what is now the continental US when Europeans first reached these shores. But demographic studies now indicate between 12 and 18 times that…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Corporate Economists Tell Lies for a Living
03 Dec 2008
by Glen Ford Corporate-oriented members of the economics profession are "shills and boosters" for the (one-time) Titans of finance capital "The economists most cited in corporate media are shills and boosters for capitalism in general, and Wall Street in particular. Click the…