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Bill Quigley
It Is Better To Give Than To Receive
10 Sep 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a the Seven Foot Poet While every truism ain't true, some are altogether on the real. Some are, in fact, more real than the truths that elders and common sense teach us. the Seven Foot Poet knows that some are more real than the truth. Some…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Biden = Palin
10 Sep 2008
Normal 0 by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Joe "Foot-In-Mouth" Biden and Sarah "Abstinence-Only" Palin are perfect matches for the Twin Business Party campaigns for top executive power. Biden gruffly rejects the "liberal" label by reminding reporters he is from a former…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”
10 Sep 2008
Normal 0 by Charley James Barack Obama is a "Sambo," Hillary Clinton is a "bitch," and Alaskan Eskimos are "Arctic Arabs." According to the author's sources, that's the way the world looks to Sarah Palin. The mean, vindictive core shines through - "No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering…
Bill Quigley
Say No to Lying, Spying and Torture
10 Sep 2008
Normal 0 by Cynthia McKinney At what point do the American people say, "No"? When the Pentagon admits it "lost" $2.3 trillion? "Yet both the Democratic and Republican nominees plan to increase the Pentagon's budget, continue to add countries to Dick Cheney's list of 60 against which the…
Bill Quigley
Taxicab Confessions: More Intervention, More War, More Lies
10 Sep 2008
Normal 0 by Billy Buntin Take a ride with a Somali taxi driver and you might learn something. "European and Western intervention from the past is the number one cause of the troubles we're seeing in African countries," said the author's temporary foreign policy advisor. "We're also still…
Bill Quigley
Great White Snark
10 Sep 2008
Normal 0 by John Maxwell For personal reasons rooted in his childhood, the author tends to "see many politicians as comic book characters." If John McCain had tapped Joe Lieberman for Number Two, it would have meant the "pairing of those quintessential bumblers Elmer Fudd and Mr. Magoo…
Bill Quigley
The U.S. is the Worst Kind of Neighbor
10 Sep 2008
Normal 0 The U.S. dangled Cuba a measly $100,000 in Hurricane Gustav disaster relief - and that, with strings attached - compared to Cuba's offer of shiploads of medical aid in the wake of Katrina. Whatever happened to FDR's Good Neighbor Policy? To hear this Black Agenda Radio…
Bill Quigley
The Genetically Programmed Urge to Vote
10 Sep 2008
Normal 0 Some of the people the rich pay to think for them believe that "genetics may motivate a citizen to cast a ballot or not, and that one can inherit the urge to run for office." Follow the inane logic to its bizarre conclusions. To hear this Black Agenda Radio …
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
9/11 and the Great American Decline
10 Sep 2008
Normal 0 by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The author begins with his encounter with two Israelis on the banks of the Hudson River as the second tower fell at the World Trade Center, and proceeds through the brief euphoria at "victory" in Iraq, and subsequent reversals in U.S.…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Preserve Gangster History
17 Sep 2008
Normal 0 Newark, New Jersey's historic preservation authorities aren't enthusiastic about the landmark value of the site where mobster Dutch Schultz met his violent end. But preserving history is one way we answer the question: "What kind of country allowed assassins, pimps,…

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