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Bill Quigley
Sit-ins in 9 Cities Begin To Put Single Payer Back On The Table
16 Oct 2009
Thursday in Phoenix and Portland, in Los Angeles and Washington DC and five other cities across the nation 54 people were arrested while many hundreds more conducted nonviolent demonstrations outside the offices of piratical health insurance companies. The election is over. Maybe a…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
U.S is Puppet-Master in Somalia
22 Sep 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic below to download the MP3 audio of this commentary. Being a superpower means having the ability to arbitrarily prolong the misery of weaker countries. Such seems…
Bill Quigley
Education Reform's Rule Number One: Blame The Teachers
20 Oct 2009
by Kesi Bem Foster Teacher union-bashing has become a sport among the business class and their minions in both major parties. Teachers unions, it is claimed, keep “bad” educators on the job, doing the public a disservice. But few politicians attack police unions for defending officers “accused of…
Bill Quigley
Obama's New Katrina Recovery Bucks Less Than One Week's Worth of War in Afghanistan
20 Oct 2009
by Patrick Martin Last week's drive-by to New Orleans showed President Obama at his public relations worst, inviting comparisons to his predecessor in the White House. Obama lectured and insulted critics, compared concerned citizens of the ravaged city to “special interests,” and pleaded…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Two Studies: Drop-out or Push-out, and the Consequences of Jim Crow Medicine
20 Oct 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen or the mic to download. The Sixties and the decade's aftermath remains a fertile field of study. Researchers conclude that the end of Jim Crow medicine “provided the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Three-Tier Race-Based Wage Scales in Manhattan
20 Oct 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen or the mic to download. A full-blown apartheid labor regime flourished in the Manhattan construction industry, with Irish immigrant workers at the top of the heap. New…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Backwards with Obama
20 Oct 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama has a peculiar effect on other world leaders: he causes them to regress on climate change and to revert to racist type in relations with formerly colonized nations. Obama brings Europeans down to the American level, while making…
Bill Quigley
Black Leadership In the Age of Obama: Motown's New Mayor Unilaterally Ends Almost All Union Contracts
20 Oct 2009
By Diane Bukowski For decades unionized jobs, especially those in the public sector have provided a precarious foothold in the middle class for those black families lucky enough to have them. Unionized employees cannot be as easily terminated, and are far more likely to have medical and retirement…
Bill Quigley
Can Democrats Avoid a Populist Health Care Rebellion?
20 Oct 2009
by Kevin Zeese Democratic leadership is committing political suicide by attempting to force all Americans to buy shoddy insurance policies from profiteering private corporations. Already, activists who worked hard for Obama are putting their bodies on the line to halt the White House…
Bill Quigley
True Crime: White Privilege and a Police Killing in an Obama-Mad College Town
20 Oct 2009
by Paul Street Iowa City, Iowa went wild for Barack Obama in '08, earning a reputation among it's more conservative neighbors as “The People’s Republic of Johnson County.” But when a white deputy sheriff shot to death a homeless Black man at the urging of a local white drunk, the “liberal” oasis…