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.
Activism. Democracy. Change through nonviolent direct action.
“All that it can offer to the emerging nations of the world is a bad example and the threat of annihilation.”
There are lands of bluebirds and fountains— where everyone in their minds is forever free… Turning away, shuttering high-beams: Erehwon, Shangra-La,
“Kim’s country may be punished by sanctions but he has a measure of security he would not have had if he had not persevered in his goal.”
“She is risking her life to challenge the Kagame regime, and any challenge to our own government is up to us.”
