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 Trump experience has plunged corporate ideology and war rationales into disarray.”
Antigua and Barbuda is an eastern Caribbean nation, a federation of two island British colonies that became independent in 1981. Hurricane Irma destroyed most of Barbuda’s infrastructure in 2017.
“The psychopathology of white supremacy invisibilizes the absurdity and illegitimacy of the United States being in a position to negotiate the fate of millions
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“No one should be concerned because Trump ruined the party held by the biggest thieves.”
