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Bill Quigley: Why WikiLeaks Is Good for Democracy
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 1:27 pm | Bill Quigley
Since 9/11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that "state secrets" will not be shared with citizens. Candidate Obama pledged to reduce the use of state secrets, but President Obama continued the ... More >>
Bill Quigley: Bush Pens True Crime Book
Monday, 15 November 2010, 12:15 pm | Bill Quigley
In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted that he authorized that detainees be waterboarded, tortured, a crime under US and international law. More >>
Bill Quigley: Bush Pens True Crime Book
Saturday, 13 November 2010, 2:26 pm | Bill Quigley
In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted that he authorized that detainees be waterboarded, tortured, a crime under US and international law. Bush's crime confession coincides ... More >>
Five Bailout Lessons From Katrina
Saturday, 27 December 2008, 12:26 pm | Bill Quigley
Five Bailout Lessons From Katrina by Bill Quigley , t r u t h o u t | Perspective More >>
Living in the Car After Gustav
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 10:39 am | Bill Quigley
The good news is that nearly two million people were evacuated and spared the direct hit of Gustav on the Gulf Coast. Our sisters and brothers in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who were not able to leave the point of the storm, lost over 100 lives. ... More >>
Waiting for a Bus in New Orleans
Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 9:32 am | Bill Quigley
New Orleans - It's 4 p.m. August 30, 2008. In the blazing midday sun, hot and thirsty children walk around bags of diapers and soft suitcases piled outside a locked community center in the Lower Ninth Ward. Military police in camouflage and local police in ... More >>
Katrina Pain Index: New Orleans Three Years Later
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 11:47 am | Bill Quigley
Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast three years ago this week. The president promised to do whatever it took to rebuild. But the nation is trying to fight wars in several countries and is dealing with economic crisis. The attention of the president ... More >>
America's Role in Haiti's Hunger Riots
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 1:36 pm | Bill Quigley
Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots worldwide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen. More >>
Half of New Orleans's Poor Permanently Displaced
Saturday, 8 March 2008, 6:48 pm | Bill Quigley
Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low-cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working ... More >>
New Orleans Residents Vow to Fight Bulldozers
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 9:42 am | Bill Quigley
On the 12th day before Christmas, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is planning to unleash teams of bulldozers to demolish thousands of low-income apartments in New Orleans. Despite Katrina causing the worst affordable housing crisis ... More >>
New Orleans: Fighting for the Right to Learn
Sunday, 12 August 2007, 9:18 pm | Bill Quigley
There is a massive experiment being performed on thousands of primarily African American children in New Orleans. No one asked the permission of the children. No one asked permission of their parents. This experiment involves a fight for the education of ... More >>
Injustice in Jena, Nooses Hang From the White Tree
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 10:54 am | Bill Quigley
All white jury sitting before white judge agrees with white prosecutor and all white witnesses and convicts black youth in racially charged high school criminal case. More >>
Prison for Anti-Nuke Clowns, US WMDs Protected
Monday, 20 November 2006, 3:32 pm | Bill Quigley
Three men protesting the presence of weapons of mass destruction in North Dakota were sentenced to federal prison terms of over three years and ordered to pay $17,000 in restitution by a federal judge in Bismarck. The three dressed as clowns and went ... More >>
Quigley: Robin Hood in Reverse On The Gulf Coast
Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 11:02 am | Bill Quigley
Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. On the Gulf Coast, the reverse is happening. Federal, state and local governments are teaming up with corporations and developers to systematically steal hurricane relief funds from the poor to enrich ... More >>
Bill Quigley: New Orleans One Year After Katrina
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 11:15 am | Bill Quigley
Bernice Mosely is 82 and lives alone in New Orleans in a shotgun double. On August 29, 2005, as Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the levees constructed by the US Corps of Engineers failed in five places and New Orleans filled with water. More >>
Ten Months After Katrina - Gutting New Orleans
Friday, 30 June 2006, 11:45 am | Bill Quigley
Saturday I joined some volunteers and helped gut the home of one of my best friends. Two months after she finished paying off her mortgage, her one-story brick home was engulfed in 7 feet of water. Because she was underinsured and remains worried about ... More >>
HUD to NO Poor: "Go F(ind) Yourself (Housing)!"
Monday, 19 June 2006, 11:15 am | Bill Quigley
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced they plan to demolish over five thousand public housing apartments in New Orleans. In August 2005, HUD reported they had 7,381 public apartments in New Orleans. Now HUD says they now have ... More >>
