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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Whose Recovery, and at Whose Cost?
26 Aug 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The bankster class went from comatose to all-powerful in a matter of months, discovering along the way how easy it is to loot trillions from the home-nation. “Taxpayers are committed to buttress the financial sector to the tune of $23.7 trillion – 1.7 times last…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bad Public Options for Health Care
26 Aug 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. The more progressive Democrats in the House have vowed to hold out for a health care plan with a…
Bill Quigley
This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery
26 Aug 2009
by Chris Hedges The debate over health care “reform” has devolved to a frenzied assault on the U.S. Treasury, abetted by corporate enablers in both parties. “The proposed plans rattling around Congress all ensure that the profits for these corporations will increase and the misery for ordinary…
Bill Quigley
Katrina 4th Anniversary: Homeless and Struggling In New Orleans
26 Aug 2009
by Jordan Flaherty “Four years after Katrina, recovery and rebuilding has come slow to this city, and there are many boarded-up homes to choose from,” though few are fit for habitation. Apartments that once rented for $350 a month now go for $1,200. Section 8 voucher holders, 99 percent of them…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Are Barack Obama's "Compromises" Part of a Some Larger Progressive Plan?
26 Aug 2009
Of course not, says Glen Ford, who has covered Obama's career since 2003. What you see, with President Obama, is all there is, and that's what we get: a corporate Democrat in blackface. In this Big Think interview segment, BAR executive editor Glen Ford discusses the crisis in African…
Bill Quigley
The New Era of White “Massive Resistance”
25 Aug 2009
by Henry D. Rose Race permeates and largely motivates the Tea Partyers, who are intent on launching a new era of “massive white resistance” much like that of half a century ago. “What this massive resistance demonstrates is that any attempt to paint the U.S.A as post-racial is an exercise in…
Bill Quigley
IMF To Third World: Your Money or Your Life!
25 Aug 2009
by John Maxwell Like a highway robber, the International Monetary Fund strips Third World nations bare of the power to exercise effective sovereignty – then returns to rape them. Now is the time for Jamacia to call a halt to the cruel game, and simply default on the crooked debt. “It will cause…
Bill Quigley
Bending Toward Justice
25 Aug 2009
by Lee A. Daniels Two weeks ago, one of the five white men still living, suspected in the deaths of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner in Neshoba, Mississippi, 1964, died. But at least 73-year-old Billy Wayne Posey “went to his grave knowing the next…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
FBI Provocateur on McKinney: Why Not Lynch an “Uppity Black Bitch?”
26 Aug 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. A white racist who threatened the lives of white state legislators and federal judges in Connecticut…
Bill Quigley
Obama's First Press Conference: Repeating Old Lies, Dodging Old Truths
11 Feb 2009
So how's that "change" thing working out? Are we getting better, or more of the same, and why? In his first press conference, Obama labeled Iran a destabilizing influence in the Middle East because it allegedly sought nuclear weapons, while ignoring the longstanding Israeli nuclear threat to all…