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Bill Quigley
Highlights of the SleptOn.TV White House Press Conference on Obama's Receipt of Nobel Peace Prize
20 Oct 2009
by SleptOn.TV Nobody, the president said, was more surprised than him. Nobody except maybe Henry "the Christmas Bomber" Kissinger. Slept)n.TV brings us their version of the White House press conference. If you don't see the video above, click here.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The U.S. Military: A Global Force For Good? Maybe Not.
20 Oct 2009
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A cartoonish recruiting campaign underway by the US Navy brands it “a global force for good,” as though military forces existed to build hospitals or schools or public works rather than to break things, kill and terrorize people in the service of America'…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Phony Fight: Obama VS the Insurance Barons
20 Oct 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford If you believe the hype, the president and Big Insurance are going at at each other's throats over health care. But it's a sham battle, “like TV wrestling.” The insurance companies have already won the…
Bill Quigley
Banksters Rob States and Cities Too
29 Oct 2009
by Margaret Kimberley The $17 trillion dollar transfer from federal coffers to the pockets of Wall Street banksters didn't happen in a vacuum. The same bipartisan cast of players have had their wolvish way with sheepish state and local governments for a long time now. They have honed their…
Bill Quigley
African Pastoralists Directly Threatened By Climate Change
28 Oct 2009
by Aaron Tesfaye The first victims of the change in global precipitation patterns will not be people from rich, polluting nations who engage in ruinous consumption, but the poorest of the poor – such as African pastoralists who exist ‘precariously at the periphery’, Aaron Tesfaye writes in…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
National Wave of Privatization Scandals and Disasters Ignored By Media, Concealed From Public
29 Oct 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce Dixon Click the flash player below to listen or the mic to download. The total absence of local journalism in many markets, and the fixation of what news reporting there is on a handful of crime and celebrity…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
State and Local Democrats From California to New York: The Standup Party, or the Party of Excuses?
29 Oct 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce Dixon Click the flash player below to listen or the mic to download. For some time now, many have wondered when or if Congress and the president would ever stand up against Wall Street, the insurance companies,…
Bill Quigley
Declaration of Dignity – The Tripoli Statement
28 Oct 2009
The following speech was delivered by former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney last week in Libya. As our issue deadline approaches, McKinney is now in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for an international conference on the criminalization of war and warfare, an affair certain to pass unnoticed by our…
Bill Quigley
Why I Disrupted Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in Chicago
28 Oct 2009
by Ali Abunimah Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is a wanted man in some places, and decidedly unwanted in some others. Olmert sat in the Big Chair during last year's murderous Israeli assault on a million largely defenseless Palestinians in Gaza, the world's largest open air prison…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Hustles the Public for Greedy Private Insurers
04 Nov 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen or the mic below to download an mp3 copy of this commentary. It appears that President Obama will soon achieve his health care triumph – and an unmitigated disaster for the…