by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Since the onset of the Obama phenomenon, Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth and death days have been “polluted” by false and ahistorical comparisons between Obama and MLK. The two men represent opposite political poles: one, a radical opponent of imperial war and concentrated economic power, the other, an ally of Wall Street and commander-in-chief of “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” In focusing on King, the man of peace, Tavis Smiley’s PBS special corrects a history that has been distorted, sometimes beyond recognition – not the least by the revisionist and poseur in the White House.
The International Criminal Court is justifiably suspect based on its prosecution mainly of Black people.
The suppression of black thought predates the dawn of the racial slave trade. “Policing is not what we think it is.”
The current strike is driven by gross inequalities in earnings among workers, as well as between labor and management.
Russians are keenly aware of the non-stop propaganda campaign waged against their country by the US government and media.
The majority of residents in the hurricane-prone countries of the Caribbean are there as a result of a specific centuries-long crime wave, known as the Atlantic Slave Trade.
