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Bill Quigley
What Next for Haiti as “Recovery” Replaces Relief?
03 Feb 2010
by Danny Schechter The U.S. corporate media, the Empire’s mouthpieces, blame the powerless people and feeble institutions of Haiti for their plight. “Few reviewed the history of Washington’s occupations and support for dictators as a reason for why the country was kept so poor and unable to…
Bill Quigley
Protecting Haiti's Interest
03 Feb 2010
by John Maxwell The “Big Three” tormenters of Haiti – the U.S., France and Canada – now posing as the quake-struck nation's benefactors, ponder how to rebuild Haiti without Haitian input or permission. “France, the United States and Canada owe the Haitians billions in damages. It is not for them to…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: An Open Letter to President Obama on Haiti
03 Feb 2010
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez Even when claiming to speak to the nation and world about Haiti, Barack Obama winds up talking about America – and himself. The author writes, “Mr. President…“I am always astounded to see just what a shallow and pretentious presence your elevation to the…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama State of the Union: Guns For the Pentagon, Butter For Wall Street, A Spending Freeze For You
28 Jan 2010
Back during the Vietnam war, Democratic presidents Kennedy and Johnson promised we could have guns and butter too. They lied. The cost of the Vietnam war and the world's biggest military machine quickly gutted the War on Poverty. At least our First Black President isn't telling us that old, old…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Building a Social Movement: Black is Back Coalition Meets in Florida
27 Jan 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford At long last, the Black Left is on a path to organizing a new movement, to replace the one that was “wiped out” a generation ago. The Black is Back Coalition gathered “to consolidate alliances, solidify the Coalition’s organizational structure, and reaffirm…
Bill Quigley
Obama Did Not "Inherit" Afghan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Somali and Other Wars
27 Jan 2010
If the video above is not visible, click here. At the Black Is Back conference in Florida last week, Glen Ford explains that President Obama didn't 'inherit' the imperial wars around the world. Obama embraces and promotes American global hegemony. He campaigned long and hard to be…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Show Trial
03 Feb 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In order that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be denied even the formalities of American justice as we once knew it, the system itself must be eviscerated. “Phony concerns about security costs and whipped up fears of impending terror attacks are used to…
Bill Quigley
Glen Ford on Black Realities and Delusion in the Age of Obama
03 Feb 2010
If you cannot see the video above, click here. When the Pew Center recently polled African Americans it found that a solid majority of us now believe that historic gaps between black and white incomes, wages, along with disparites in health, wealth, morbidity, mortality and more are closing. …
Bill Quigley
Omali Yeshitela at Black Is Back: Creating A Broad Social Movement Based in Our Black Communties
03 Feb 2010
If you cannot see the video above, click here. Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru Movement, convenors of the January 2010 Black Is Back conference in St. Petersburg explains that the 21st century successor to the Freedom Movement must be a broad social movement firmly rooted, among other places, in black…
Bill Quigley
Haitians in the Bahamas Harrassed, Hunted and Scapegoated
03 Feb 2010
If you cannot see the video above, click here. Two centuries after the world's most successful slave rebellion Haitians are still being punished, both in their own country and in the nations to which they emigrate. In the Bahamas, Professor alex Morely explains, Haitians are an underclass,…