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.
“An ideological opening exists for reframing military spending and the war agenda for what it is: An agenda for the protection of the interests of the 1 percent.”
“The US and allies are trying to beat the October deadline when Burundi will have made its way out from under the court's imperial jurisdiction.”
“Coates assumes that all the leftists are white, and all race analysis is liberal.”
“The strikers presented a list of demands they wanted delivered to ICE.”
“United States leaders threaten North Korea with a first strike.”
