http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/40-years-later-the-late-m_b_95043.html Comments & Reviews of http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/40-years-later-the-late-m_b_95043.html on StumbleUpon en-us Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:49:44 -0700 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:25:23 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/40-years-later-the-late-m_b_95043.html http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:28:56 -0700 http://stumblekkss.stumbleupon.com/review/19681930/ StumbleKKSS - If King had survived to hear the war drums beating for the invasion and occupation of Iraq -- amplified by TV networks and the New York Times front page and Washington Post editorial page -- there's little doubt where he'd stand. Or how loudly he'd be speaking out. And there's little doubt how big U.S. media would have reacted. On Fox News and talk radio, King would have been Dixie Chicked...or Rev. Wrighted. In corporate centrist outlets, he'd have been marginalized faster than you can say Noam Chomsky. One suspects King would be marveling at the rise of Barack Obama and the multiracial movement behind him. But would he be happy with Obama and other Democratic leaders who heap boundless billions onto the biggest military budget in world history? In 1967, King denounced a Democratic-controlled Congress for fattening the Pentagon budget while cutting anti-poverty programs, declaring: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/40-years-later-the-late-m_b_95043.html Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:06:48 -0700 http://silverfox616.stumbleupon.com/review/19674637/ Silverfox616 - Some things never seem to change.....]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/40-years-later-the-late-m_b_95043.html Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:42:43 -0700 http://cuy.stumbleupon.com/review/19673681/ cuy - From the page: "Back then they denounced King's critical comments; today they simply silence them"]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/40-years-later-the-late-m_b_95043.html