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Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: Michael Jackson dies of Amurrika at 50
30 Jun 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez The King of Pop is dead, and “you can hear the scavengers gnawing on bones all the way to the bank from any vantage point where you stand.” Michael Jackson succumbed to a peculiar Amurridan syndrome: TMTS, Too Much Too Soon. “In United States…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Giving Honduras the Haiti Treatment
01 Jul 2009
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. President Obama has joined all of Latin American in denouncing the coup in Honduras. But…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Election of Barack Obama Has Paralyzed Progressive Forces in US Politics
01 Jul 2009
If you don't see the video above, click here. This speech delivered by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford at African Liberation Day 2009, highlights the paralysis of black and progressive leadership and the dead end in which progressive forces in the U.S. find themselves. For as long as anybody can…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Dangerous Progressives
01 Jul 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Self-styled “progressives” tend to think of themselves as another tribe entirely, untainted by American chauvinism. It ain't so. “Progressives also succumb to the belief in American divine right, and consequently can often be as…
Bill Quigley
Cynthia McKinney Returns to U.S. After Ordeal on High Seas and Israeli Prison
02 Jul 2009
The Editors Former Georgia Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney arrives at JFK Airport early Tuesday morning. McKinney, known as prisoner #88794 during her confinement at Ramle prison since Tuesday, was arrested along wih 20 other activists of the Free Gaza…
Bill Quigley
Michael Jackson and the Piranhas of the Media
07 Jul 2009
by John Maxwell The horror, the horror. The ghastly ugliness oozes from the bestial media, feasting on death. “To the imperial media Jackson was guilty of everything of which he had ever been accused, like Jack Johnson, Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King, Elvis Presley and John Lennon.” The true…
Bill Quigley
The Persecution of Michael Jackson
07 Jul 2009
by Ishmael Reed The self-serving infotainment networks have a new product to take the place of news and real programming for at least the next week. The trashing and rehashing of Michael Jackson, his family, legal and other troubles, his art and his life will be served up to us by corporate…
Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues:The Obamamas and the Obapapas
08 Jul 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez So where is the mass movement that was supposedly gestating in the womb of the Obama campaign phenomenon, the one that was wedded to, but to the left of, the actual candidate? How has the phantom “movement” made itself felt and known? Turns out, the whole…
Bill Quigley
The Age of Katrina – Not Obama
27 Aug 2008
The Age of Katrina - Not Obama by BAR executive editor Glen Ford "Obamites believe their candidate's speech will herald a crack in time."
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ward Churchill: Academic Freedom Denied
15 Jul 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. An anti-imperialist ethics professor has no rights that his university is bound to respect. That's the…