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.
“Barbudans are rightly suspicious that ultimately their paradise of equality for all will be taken away in favor of capitalist predation.”
“WikiLeaks has done humanity a service by exposing the Democratic Party as but another organ of the rich.”
“Migrants deported from Israel to Rwanda in 2014 and 2015 have been horrifically abused and trafficked back to the Mediterranean.”
“Non-mainstream media news sources across the political spectrum would no longer be able to afford to compete in the marketplace of ideas.”
“Black people from all over the world must come together and organize and mobilize against Facebook, on Facebook.”
