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 US left has a fundamental problem, perhaps the root of most of its other problems.
“Measured in military dollars, the Democratic leadership is more warlike than the Trump administration.”
“An ultra-rich right winger put Trump in the White House and now controls the country’s political agenda.”
“Democrats have been a reliable source of fake progressivism and real imperial policy.”
“Since the Dems took control of the House in 2007, the antiwar movement has been pitiful.”
