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.
by Gerald A. Perreira The US uses the Organization of American States to recruit Latin American allies for its campaign to overthrow the government of Venezuela. However, the Caribbean Community of…
by Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla In a retreat back into self-isolation, President Trump partially reversed his predecessor’s “opening” to Cuba. Surrounded by anti-Castro exiles, Trump claimed to…
by Thando Sipuye There are many distortions in the dominant narratives around the 1976 students’ uprising. One of the most critical of these is the persistent, subtle projection of that uprising as…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump’s lynch party seeking the extradition of Assata Shakur from Cuba includes every U.S. president -- most especially Barack Obama, who doubled the bounty…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United National Anti-War Coalition, which held a national conference last weekend in Richmond, Virginia, “does not change its organizing…
