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.
Four years ago this May I
Rehabilitating men with birth defects: bomb bays where hearts should beat, weaponized eyes, mechanical mouths, teargas tongues, compassionless, cold- blooded coup smiles…
General Suarez Chourio, Commande-in-Chief of the Venezuelan Army, urg
The Democrats agree with Trump that Venezuelans have no rights that need be respected by the United States.
The richest man in the world is not the smartest, but even if he was he couldn’t save the system from its contradictions.
