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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: When Will We March Against Obama?
11 Feb 2009
"Give Obama a chance." some of his less critical supporters say. "Do you think you're smarter than Obama?", some of the less polite ones ask. But those are not the real questions. The real question is how long it will be before the left wakes up and finds its own voice. Shut…
Bill Quigley
House Democratic Leader Declares National Health Care Legislation “Off The Table” This Year
28 Jan 2009
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon What does it mean when leading House Democrats, and apparently the White House repudiate their own campaign promises to enact a universal-coverage national health care plan only days into the new Congress and new administration, even though they have a…
Bill Quigley
Will Obama Privatize Public Assets To Pay For “Economic Recovery”?
10 Dec 2008
By BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Obama's old school economic team are on record as favoring privatizations of public resources in principle. Unless Obama is willing to significantly cut the military budget or tax the rich, neither of which seems very likely, the only way to pay for even a…
Bill Quigley
The Neo-Yeltsin Administration? The Obama Letdown
30 Nov 2008
by Michael Hudson Although president-elect Barack Obama ran on a promise of "change", explains economist Michael Hudson, one has to look awfully hard and more than a little wishfully at his economic recovery team to see much of it. The bailout, which the new administration owns as…
Bill Quigley
Poverty: Policies and Possibilities, Part 2
17 Dec 2008
Normal 0 by Shannon J. Prince Many of the solutions to poverty begin in the minds and experiences of poor people, themselves. The author examines two unconventional anti-poverty efforts, one that finds "people willing to employ marginalized people, matches young people with jobs that meet their…
Bill Quigley
Poverty: Policies and Possibilities
10 Dec 2008
Normal 0 by Shannon Prince Regulation of industry can be a very good thing, but requiring licenses to braid hair is oppressive and stupid. "Since time immemorial black women have braided hair in open air and in kitchens and on…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama, Voter Suppression and the Myth of “Vote Fraud”
15 Oct 2008
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Republicans and their allies in the corporate media are promoting the myth that hordes of foreigners and felons are waiting for election day, to vote on school board contests, library and park district levies, and of course, presidential elections. Secretive,…
Bill Quigley
AFRICOM: America's Military Foot in Africa's Doorway
08 Oct 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon On October 1 the US launched AFRICOM, the Pentagon's outpost in Africa. Commanded by a Black American general and incorporating State Department and other civilian personnel from top to bottom it is billed as a “new kind” of US military command. Incorporating…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Radio One Founder Slimes Five Black Reps., Raises Money for Another
02 Sep 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. Black radio's wealthiest woman, who claims that very modest royalties to musical performers will “…
Bill Quigley
President Obama: Jack Johnson Punched Back
02 Sep 2009
by Dave Zirin The overwhelmingly white Right is advertising for another Great White Hope – as if the search ever ended. A century ago, the great Black champion Jack Johnson defended The Race's honor in the ring, as well as his own. But our presumptive Black presidential “Hope” seems not to…