Martin Luther King jr.: Why I Am Opposed to The War in Vietnam

Written on January 22nd, 2015 in politics Comments Off

The same speech he could make today … on multiple wars, the world economic system, our narrowed understanding about others, about life …:

Video: Martin Luther King jr. – Why I Am Opposed to The War in Vietnam, 23.32 min:

  • 1): on The Real News’ website. The whole speech is reprinted here. Sections in bold were omitted in the video;
  • 2): with Video sequences on YouTube’s channel, uploaded January 16, 2012: Martin Luther King Jr gave this sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967. Once you’ve watched the video, we urge you to read the speech in its entirety. Note: As part of the process of creating imagery for this video, the speech was edited for length.  

Links:

What Happens in Greece can transform Europe, on Return to Syriza.gr, Ιnterview with Jerome Roos, the editor of ROAR magazine, Jan 21, 2015;

#notinmyname: German Muslims Fear Backlash after Paris Attacks, on Spiegel Online International, by SPIEGEL Staff, Jan 21, 2015: The vast majority of Muslims in Germany condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris. But they are concerned that a new wave of Islamophobia may wash over the country anyway …;

Capitalism and the global plutocracy, on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Andre Damon, Jan 21, 2015;

The ECB Cold Shoulders Greece on QE, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Jan 21, 2015;

Paul Krugman and the Swiss Movement, on RWER Blog, by Dean Baker, Jan 21, 2015: Paul Krugman is still upset over the decision by Switzerland’s central bank to end its peg to the euro and allow the value of the Swiss franc to rise. Since some of us non-hyper-inflation worriers don’t share his anger, perhaps it worth explaining the difference in views …;

Lavrov on Obama speech: Efforts to isolate Russia will fail, on Russia Today RT, Jan 21, 2015;

Bill Black appearing on The Real News Network, 5.53 min, on New Economic Perspectives.org, January 20, 2015 … prior to the beginning of a press-conference summarizing the results of the Russian diplomacy in 2014;

The Paris murders and the demand to understand, on Zblogs, by Mina Khanlarzadeh, Jan 19, 2015: … Today, a considerable part of the left searches for meaning and strives for comprehension in the nothingness of reactionary acts of extremism. It is ironic that the same section of the left considers the Kurdish fighters—also Muslim—who have led alternative forms of living while under the attacks of ISIS and its allies hard to understand for non-Kurds, unworthy of attention, and/or none of their business …;

The SYRIZA Challenge in Greece:

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