Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Breaking the Silence Revisited: Gaza, Venezuela and the Enduring Relevance of Dr. King’s Critique of Empire

January 18, 2026 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Blowback, Colonialism, Ending War, Featured, Genocide, Imperialism, Latin America, Political Analysis, Racism, U.S. Aggression

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, January 14, 2026 The annual ritual of sanitizing Martin Luther King Jr. serves to obscure his radical anti-war politics, which are urgently needed to challenge U.S. imperialism. Every year in the U.S., what has emerged as a cynical ritual around the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King takes place, where the state[…]

Scott Ritter Uncanceled: Rage Against the War Machine Speech (Updated with Video)

February 20, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, International Law, Nuclear Agendas, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Aggression, War and Peace

by Scott Ritter, published on Scott’s Substack, February 9, 2023 [Note: I was going to speak at the Rage against the War Machine rally, scheduled for February 19 at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C. For personal reasons, I will no longer be speaking. In short, I have decided to take one for the team. I wish all participants and[…]

MLK: Beyond Vietnam to Ukraine

January 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, Militarism, Ukraine

by Rick Sterling, published on LA Progressive, January 16, 2023 n April 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an eloquent and stirring denunciation of the Vietnam war and US militarism. The speech titled “Beyond Vietnam” is relevant to today’s war in Ukraine. In the speech at Riverside Church, King talked about how the US had supported France in trying to[…]