7 April 2018 — Global Research
“And who is to know how a jury ruled
Pronouncing justice long delayed
When a media establishment schooled
By their absence the truth waylaid.”
-Dr. William Pepper (quoted in The Plot to Kill King) [1]
25 September 2013 — National Security Archive
Newly Declassified History Divulges Names of Prominent Americans Targeted by NSA during Vietnam Era
Declassification Decision by Interagency Panel Releases New Information on the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Panama Canal Negotiations
6 April 2013 — HLLN
– Please sign Petition to Free Lynne Stewart: Save Her Life – Release Her Now! http://chn.ge/WixRmO
“I shall refuse all solid food,” Dick Gregory declared on April 4, the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., “until Lynne Stewart is freed and receives medical treatment in the care of her family and with physicians of her choice without which she will die.”
23 February, 2013 — The Real News Network
On the 145th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois, Anthony Monteiro looks at Du Bois‘s relationship with the CPUSA and the Soviet Union (inc. transcript)
22 February, 2013 — The Real News Network
Part 3: On the 145th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois‘s birth, Anthony Monteiro discusses the opposing views on Pan Africanism of Du Bois and Marcus Garvey
21 February 2013 — The Real News Network
Anthony Monteiro Part 2 – On the 145th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois HIS NAME looks at Du Bois‘s view on racism, capitalism and the role of black workers
20 February, 2013 — The Real News Network
Anthony Monteiro : Feb. 23, 2013 is the 145th anniversary of the birth of Du Bois, considered a founder of the civil rights movement and father of Pan Africanism (inc. transcript)
27 January 2013 — Global Research
The Children Killed by America’s Drones. “Crimes Against Humanity” committed by Barack H. Obama., Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 26, 2013
Behind each name there is the face of a child with a family history in a village in a far away country, with a mom and a dad, with brothers and sisters and friends. Continue reading
21 January, 2013 — Global Research
One day …
Children at school will ask:
What is war?
You will answer them.
You will tell them:
Those words are not used any more.
Like stagecoaches, galleys or slavery.
Words no longer meaningful … — (Martin Luther King,15th January 1929-4th April 1968.) Continue reading
21 January, 2013 — Global Research
One day …
Children at school will ask:
What is war?
You will answer them.
You will tell them:
Those words are not used any more.
Like stagecoaches, galleys or slavery.
Words no longer meaningful … — (Martin Luther King,15th January 1929-4th April 1968.) Continue reading
19 October 2011 — williambowles.info
19 October 2011
Occupy Wall Street protesters raise nearly $500,000
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 07:55
4 April 2011 — Plunderthecrimeofourtime.com
Before he went over that mountain top in that week in an April like this one back in l968, Martin Luther King Jr, said he had already seen the other side, as he spent his last days on earth fighting for the garbage men of Memphis while speaking out about the twin evils of war and poverty.
16 July, 2009 — Foreign Policy in Focus
Combine Iran’s post-election turmoil with the controversy over the nation’s nuclear advances, and few Americans are likely to be unsympathetic toward the opposition movement there. Some bloggers have even suggested that the reformist-led protests are inspired by the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Several commentators have referred to the wave of anti-theocracy rallies as Iran’s “civil rights movement, perhaps implying that the social conservatives who rule the country resemble Mississippi fundamentalists.
Reese Erlich and others have reported that the insurrection now sweeping Iran spans class divisions. Middle East expert Stephen Zunes, in supporting the Iranian opposition, has written that “[h]istorically individuals and groups with experience in effective mass nonviolent mobilization tend to come from the left.”
22 April, 2009
[Two of history’s best known orations are Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I had a dream” speech and his last, the night before his 4/4/68 assassination, with its fateful:
“Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!”
But official commemorations usually jump over his 4/4/67 anti-Vietnam war speech, which commands attention now, as America’s 1st Black President sends more troops to Afghanistan. Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture), the great “black power” civil rights leader, called our attention to King’s talk in the 5/91 issue of The Anti-War Activist:
“Africans gave leadership in the Vietnam anti-war movement. On the extreme was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee with its slogan ‘hell no, we won’t go.’ In the middle stood Dr. Martin Luther King. The capitalists would make his ‘I had a dream’ speech his most popular speech. But we must make his ‘why I oppose the war in Vietnam’ speech the real speech.”
Indeed, it is so “real” that it is given below, complete. Study it for yourself. Then please look at my take on its background in 1967 and its relevance in 2009 and beyond.]
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From SleptOn.com: Too often, we are treated to a view of a romanticized and whitewashed Dr. King in order to fit the man and his struggle neatly within the prevailing political and economic power structures in a largely uncritical and non-threatening manner. This portrayal of Dr. King has been mass marketed as an accommodationist figure and is now so pervasive in our schools, media, etc. that it threatens to neutralize and placate the most ambitious, daring and challenging of King’s critique along with his struggle to confront and organize against not only racism, but economic exploitation and militarism-imperialism as well. Due to such, SleptOn.com offers “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Struggling Not To Lose Him” as a direct challenge (as he would have it) to the views and practices of those who celebrate a thoroughly pacified legacy of a man. A familiar refrain, as of late, has been Rosa sat, King walked so that he (Obama) could run or some variation thereof. Was that the goal of King’s struggle?
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Martin Luther King Day precedes the historic inauguration of America’s first African American President
Global Research, January 18, 2009
Martin Luther King Day in 2009 precedes the dawn of the historic inauguration of America’s first African American President. This inauguration is lauded as the realization of Dr. King’s dream, a defining moment in the cultural paradigm, a tectonic shift in race relations and a beacon of real change for the plight of the poor and oppressed. Infusing the dreams and ethos of Dr. King in to the presidential persona demands a confluence of ideals and actions to truly deserve the association. To betray the dream, to profit from the sacrifice is to insult the legacy. To be worthy of the torch demands integrity.
“Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.”
Extra! — Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting – November/December 1988
In March of this year South Africa suffered a momentus military defeat at Cuito Cuanavale in southeastern Angola at the hands of Cuban and Angolan forces. Described by the Christian Science Monitor (3-3-88) as “South Africa’s Stalingrad,” this battle belied earlier reports of the “dwindling resistance” of the Angolan Army and its “Soviet Bloc advisers” (Washington Post, 1-27-88).
The New Dark Age 