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Bill Quigley
Climate Change Means Death for Millions
09 May 2007
by Desmond Tutu South African former Anglican Archbishop Tutu wonders how "cushioned and cosseted" residents of the rich countries would regard the prospect of global climatic change "if they depended on the cycle of mother nature to feed their families. How much greater would their concerns be…
Bill Quigley
No Black Plan for the Cities, Despite the Lessons of Katrina
09 May 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Katrina catastrophe indisputably revealed the corporate plan for America's cities. No sooner had the waters receded than corporate planners devised elaborate schemes for a "new" New Orleans - a "better" city in which Blacks would never again be allowed…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Should We Want a Black President?
16 May 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Is Barack Obama more worthy of Black "loyalty than any other Democrat?" The answer is no - Black America should not "purchase a lemon" just because the "seller looks like us." Obama has mastered the fine arts of bullshitology, while avoiding…
Bill Quigley
‘The Ballot or the Bullet’
16 May 2007
by Malcolm X May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965 Malcolm's "The Bullet or the Ballot" speech, delivered during the interval between his separation from the Nation of Islam and his pilgrimage to Mecca, in April, 1964, lays out the new direction he envisioned for the Black Freedom Movement. It was…
Bill Quigley
Zimbabwe: Once Again, No Easy Victories
16 May 2007
by Joseph Jordan, PhD The author, who as a youth was among the millions of African Americans that hailed revolutionary leader Robert Mugabe as a hero, says Blacks are now required "to speak out directly against the violations of human rights that have marked the rule of President Robert Mugabe…
Bill Quigley
The Democrats’ Misleading Iraq Funding Provisions: They're Not Really Benchmarks
16 May 2007
by David Swanson Democratic congressional leadership has effectively taken ownership of the Iraq war, waging politically theatrical battles over phony "benchmarks" that the Bush administration doesn't actually oppose. In reality, Democratic "benchmarks" for Iraqi government behavior require the…
Bill Quigley
Four US Reps for Cheney Impeachment
16 May 2007
by Matthew Cardinale Three congresspersons, two of them Black, have joined Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich in calling for impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. However, massive deference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's insistence that impeachment is "off the table" has…
Bill Quigley
Black Labor Tackles The Big Mission: ‘Dismantle the Corporate Agenda’
16 May 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford African American unionists gather in Chicago later this month to devise strategies to halt the corporate juggernaut that is wiping out decent-paying Black jobs and dragooning the entire planet into a Race to the Bottom. The…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: ‘Gangster Government’
23 May 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley So bent on destroying the Constitution are the Bush men, they tried to force a gravely ill member of their own gang to sign documents to continue illegal spying on Americans. Hospitalized former attorney general John Ashcroft discovered…
Bill Quigley
Obama and the Hunger for a Black President
23 May 2007
by Rudolph Lewis Black "leadership" shrinks from its task, avoiding at all costs the consequences of true leadership: "poverty, imprisonment, flight, assassination." As a class, these businessmen, educators, politicians, and other professionals flee from conflict with the institutional racism…