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Bill Quigley
America’s False Ideology of White Supremacy
22 Oct 2008
by Seth Sandronsky Islamophobia is but another extension of white American fear and loathing for the Other. “One result has been a sort of silent consent for the torture of prisoners of the war on terror, mainly non-white Muslims.” Past obsessions with Blacks prepare racist minds well for…
Seth Sandronsky
White as ‘Average’ and ‘Normal’
28 Feb 2007
by Seth Sandronsky If being white in America is "normal" then what are the rest of us? A recent Salt Lake City shopping mall shooting spree by a young white man described as "average"-looking once again reveals the "white-as-normative" syndrome as pervasive in American life. Inevitably, it…
Bill Quigley
Pandering to Racists
29 Oct 2008
"The zeal with which corporate pundits seek to declare the end of race as a defining element of U.S. politics serves only to confirm its overarching presence in the political culture."
Bill Quigley
Rhetoric and Reality
28 Oct 2009
by Ralph Nader Humans learn to about the same time we learn to talk. It's just part of the package. It's quite unrealistic therefore, to suppose that our political life and discourse would be free from lies. Ralph Nader has been untangling political truth from fiction for more…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama to Make World Safe for the Rich
16 Jul 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Barack Obama has spent years avoiding being "pegged" or "tagged" as a man of the Left. People should accept the fact - he's no progressive. And no Black militant, by any stretch of the imagination. "He has to slander all black men. He has to…
Bill Quigley
Selected Predictions for 2007
03 Jan 2007
by Glen Ford Are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in cahoots, playing a game of “tag team” in a sham competition for the Democratic presidential nomination? BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford thinks so. At some point in 2007, Shi’ite Ayatollah Sistani will demand that the U.S. get out of Iraq…
Bill Quigley
MLK Day Call To Action Against Wal-Mart
10 Jan 2007
The world’s second-largest employer should stop spinning false realities, and provide decent wages and benefits to its employees, say 100 Black leaders. Dr. King’s birthday is a proper time to take a stand against the corporation that is leading the “race to the bottom.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Racism, Fascism at CNN and ABC
17 Jan 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley Racist and fascist speech is alive and well, transmitted over the airwaves and cables of major U.S. media. Hosts who call for the burning alive, torture and lynching of minorities and leftists are paid big bucks to spread hate, while bloggers…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
A Long-ago State of the Union Address: Lincoln Proposes to Ship Blacks Out of Country
24 Jan 2007
by Glen Ford At the beginning of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln wasn't contemplating an Emancipation Proclamation, but wholesale deportation of Blacks - slave and newly freed alike. Problem was, Lincoln wasn't sure where to send the human cargo. A look at Lincoln's 1861 State of…
Michael Hudson
The Fictitious Economy, Part 2, An Interview With Dr. Michael Hudson
19 Jul 2008
A Guns and Butter Interview by Bonnie Faulkner In part 2 of this interview, originally broadcast on the Pacifica program Guns and Butter Hudson explains the connection between high oil prices, the greed of oil companies, and debunks the myth that gas prices will come down any time soon.