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.
Ken Burns latest documentary series "Vietnam" leads with the claim that the US war in Vietnam was a mistake, a tragic miscalculation. In fact it was a crime that cost 3 million lives.
My Sister-in-law, the Artist, propped her last painting up, as high as she could reach…
“Regime change is the rule in U.S. foreign policy practice.”
“The system allows every white person to be a supremacist as they carry out their daily lives.”
“To conflate the just struggle of oppressed people with white nationalism is merely a variant of white supremacist ideology.”
