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.
Some alumnae of Trinity College went bonkers when the author tweeted that “Whiteness is Terrorism.”
Between 2013 and 2017, U.S. special operations forces saw combat in at least 13 African countries.
The Lords of Capital are determined that the Democratic Party will not nominate a capitalist-slayer for president.
Canada’s doctors are largely in denial about “endemic” institutional racial bias in their profession, said Dr.
