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 execution of Muammar Qaddafi and those that fought alongside him is one of the greatest crimes of this century.”
“American aircraft were dropping strange objects including live spiders, flies, bees, snakes, fleas, ticks, dead rats, and mosquitos encased in U.S.
“The expanding levels of US military forces arrayed across the continent have increasingly taken on the character of an occupying army.”
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 23, 2017 Philadelphia to Celebrate Dubois Birthday
Next year marks the 150th birthday of the great Black scholar-activist W.E.B. Dubois.
