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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Tortured Justice
29 Apr 2009
Any credit Barack Obama gets for revealing information on U.S. torture practices, Is “undeserved.” Freedom of Information suits brought by the ACLU and others “had already forced the governments hand.” But Obama has no intention of making the war criminals pay for their crimes – and for that, he is…
Bill Quigley
Status QuObama: A Hundred Days of Fake-Progressive BS and Liberal-Left Surrender
29 Apr 2009
The nation's first Black president proceeds unmolested by the Left as he moves mountains of money in a crusade to save the investment banking class. Anti-war forces dissolve into nothingness as Barack Obama extends the U.S. occupation of Iraq indefinitely. A new theater of war called Af-Pak…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama's America Joins White Walkout From UN Conference on Racism
29 Apr 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download a copy of this Black Agenda Radio commentary. The former and present colonizers and enslavers of the world - Europe…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Is Bush Still President?
06 May 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Afraid that “some of the defendants might actually be acquitted,” President Obama “is considering resuming the use of military tribunals to prosecute Guantanamo detainees.” And some of the defendants might be tried on…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Redneck-Like Black Man Wants to be Georgia Governor
06 May 2009
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download a copy of this Black Agenda Radio commentary. The 12-year Black attorney general of the State of Georgia has…
Bill Quigley
Chrysler's Plan? Send Pay, Retirement Benefits and Standards Down the Drain
05 May 2009
The same fearless, insightful news media that misrepresents Wall Street's raid on the U.S. Treasury as somehow necessary to save the economy has a story to tell about how the harm to hundreds of thousands of current and retired auto workers will be minimized by incorruptible public officials and…
Bill Quigley
If Health Insurance Companies Ran the Postal Service...
05 May 2009
Bill Quigley
Give Everyone Healthcare By Shutting Down Insurance Companies
06 May 2009
by David Swanson The only way to get something that remotely resembles single payer health care is to demand…single payer health care. Progressives that supported single payer now set their sites lower because President Obama isn’t going there. But “opening a political negotiation by asking for…
Bill Quigley
Genius Burning Brightly: The Unraveling of Gil Scott-Heron
05 May 2009
by TaRessa Stovall Gil Scott Heron lives - but barely, says the author. "We were close enough to see the unnatural glaze of his eyes, the tremors quaking his hands and legs as he leaned into the keyboard, almost as if for support, croaking several of his hits into the mic." The drug…
Bill Quigley
Barack Obama and Black American Ethnicity
27 Aug 2008
by Marian Douglas-Ungaro The hoopla surrounding Barack Obama's "historic" run for the White House leaves Marian Douglas-Ungaro cold. Barack Obama does not represent her ethnicity. "I am a Black American - a descendant of Africa and the slave trade, a descendant, too, of Europe and of Native people…