Belated MLK Day Posting...

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." MLK, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered." MLK, Beyond Vietnam, 1967


Some have noticed that more than “the public” has turned against Mr. Bush and the Iraq occupation. A political split within powerful moneyed circles has been turning into a gulf. More of the rich and powerful appear disposed to back efforts to dispose of Mr. Bush in order to save the U.S.reputation, stability and dominance. We might call this playing the “democratic will of the people” card. Note the growth of a previously non existent Media effort to expose Bush and his core Media base---the liars at Fox News Corp and some of the CNN rightist commentators.

While a lot of decent folks think the Democrats are spineless, the Demos—perhaps even led by some Republicans—will move against the President if these shifts within the political economy and the Media continue to accrue. Money and Media have influence. Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice see what is happening and so are appearing everywhere trying to shore up their dikes--to little avail. A year ago a fabricated terrorist attack in the USor a fabricated Iranian attack against US forces in Iraqmight have helped Bush expand his wars, but now it seems more likely that with any new provocation the finger would point first toward the oval office. Almost any unilateral action by Bush may bring on impeachment. Bush and company have backed themselves into that corner and struggle there along with their various failing appointed friends: Al-Maliki and Chalabi, Olmert and Calderon.

Nevertheless, even if the President should fall—and I hope it comes to pass—no one should confuse that housecleaning with a Capitalist intent for a democratic renaissance to fortify democratic rights or to withdraw from the battlefield for dominating the world’s political economy. The war on terror, a fraud created by the US government to conceal its role as the promoter and funder of most terror and many dirty wars in the world—is not about to end without a long and arduous fight. Were Martin Luther King Jr. alive today he would surely be one of the leaders of that fight.

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