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Bill Quigley
The Need for Real Debate on South Africa’s Future
13 Aug 2008
Normal 0 by Raymond Suttner South Africa is in a state of high excitement at the changing of the guard in the African National Congress, the ruling party. But the author wonders "Why is there little real debate over the country's problems and alternatives?" More pointedly, "Why is there a…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
New York Times Attempts to Define and Dictate Black Politics
13 Aug 2008
Normal 0 by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Sunday magazine of the nation's most influential newspaper predicts that Black politics as we know it is headed for extinction, that Barack Obama's "brand of ‘race-neutrality' shows Black politics is obsolete, and should be abandoned." Of course,…
Bill Quigley
The Seven-Foot Poet is on Vacation
13 Aug 2008
Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet, will return on Wednesday, August 20.
Bill Quigley
U.S. Mercenary Chickens Will Come Home to Roost
20 Aug 2008
Normal 0 A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The wholesale privatization of U.S. war-making capabilities continues apace, despite the expected indictment of six Blackwater mercenaries involved in last year's massacre of Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic jam. Domestically, for…
Bill Quigley
John Edwards and Fake Morality
20 Aug 2008
Normal 0 by Mel Reeves Big Business media are coming to resemble the National Enquirer more each day. Former senator and presidential aspirant John Edwards' marital indiscretions loomed larger in the corporate media mind than matters of war and peace, fiscal solvency or human rights. There…
Bill Quigley
If Obama Loses
20 Aug 2008
Normal 0 by Paul Street The author, no fan of Barack Obama's "neoliberal centrist" ambitions, believes that "hubris and overreach" as well as race "could play a role in a hypothetical Obama defeat." Like other Democrats of his corporate bent, "Obama has done everything he can to reassure the…
David Weiner
What Racism Does to White People
20 Aug 2008
Normal 0 by David Weiner "Authoritarianism, the soil of racism, makes dominant white culture in the United States an easy pawn of fascism." So said social-psychiatrist Erich Fromm and others who argued that racism "renders its proletarian benefactors passive and weak, ready to coalesce into…
Bill Quigley
Some Prisoners Declared Innocent, But Not Freed
20 Aug 2008
Normal 0 by Maya Schenwar Sometimes being innocent doesn't mean a damn thing. Former Black Panther Albert Woodfox's 35-year-old conviction in a prison guard killing was overturned last month, but the Louisiana Attorney General is keeping Woodfox locked up until a new trial can be arranged -…
Bill Quigley
Denver 2008: Hope Is For The Weak
20 Aug 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon As the Democratic wing of America's permanent ruling party convenes in Denver, Democrats have dominated the Congress for almost two years. There are more US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than in 2006 but no Democratic deadline to end these useless, predatory…
Bill Quigley
Cynthia McKinney: Power to the People! Stop the War!
27 Aug 2008
Normal 0 The Democratic Party "takes impeachment off the table," finances "an illegal and immoral war," fails to "even mention Hurricanes Katrina and Rita survivors in their Congressional agenda for the first 100 days," and aids and abets "illegal spying on us" - yet has the gall to call itself…