Tragically, progressive community's editors and writers, including Afro-American writers, again did NOT take advantage of the national holiday to feature martyred King's 1967 -68 anti-war, anti-imperialism, anti-international predatory capitalism speeches which since his assassination remain completely media suppressed from public attention; did NOT seek to publicize King's thundering condemnations into public awareness. Why?

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Yet Another Abysmal Holiday Failure to Publicize King's Condemnation of His Nation's Imperialist Wars.

With the exception of a CommonDreams reprint of King's "Beyond Vietnam", one is dumbfounded WHY

as usual, tragically, the progressive community’s editors and writers, including Afro-american writers, did NOT take advantage the national holiday for the most powerful and universally known progressive martyred American, whose 1967 -68 newspaper headlined anti-war, anti-imperialism, anti-international predatory capitalism speech remains completely media suppressed from public attention.

Our progressive alternate media writers did NOT seek to slam King’s thundering condemnations into the face of the world’s criminally insane oppressors,

did NOT headline in their articles the King that conglomerate entertainment/news has buried, namely,

King, the condemner of U.S. genocidal foreign policy,

King, the condemner of monstrously life taking wars of occupation in the defenseless third world,

King, the condemner of internationally predatory capitalism, and the fiery denouncer of commercial promotion of selfishness, disinterest in the crimes of the nation, and apathy and the acceptance of their connection with inequality at home.

Jesus, Jay Janson did his best all year*, but now that free alternate media's annual chance to throw light on big media’s forty year blackout of the King’s condemnations of U.S. government crimes and blistering criticism of the American nation's priorities has been lost for another year, a sinking feeling in the stomach corrects his erstwhile faith in the eventual effectiveness of America's non-capitalist, non-imperialist, pro peace and justice editors and writers.

Establishment TV has again reprogramed King's image into that of a heroic and model representative of America the Great, the Best, the Fairest (in its worldwide rule by  corporate governance through war and financial coercion).

OpEdNews readers will forgive this writer's loss of journalistic detachment in bringing to their attention his bitter consternation and inability to understand  mentors and peers not having given top priority to promoting King the 'Condemner' of the daily insanity, death and destruction we most certainly will continue to witness before the next King national holiday opportunity presents itself. At which time maybe everyone could please give it one's best shot at awakening public awareness of the existence of a posthumous unassailable iconic leader all peace and justice activists could have as an impervious protective shield out in front of their organizing actions.  

* Eleven articles on the beyond the domestic, 'world' civil rights leader Martin Luther King:

January 21, 2008
MLK at 79 Would Still be Debating the Slaughters and Lies of Capitalist Imperialism

Corporate media blocks public knowledge of the fury of King's outcry over U.S. wars of occupation and the powerful indictment of his government in his Beyond Vietnam speech, that made bold headlines in newspapers around the world. OpEdNews has highlighted ten Jay Janson articles which review King's, now media buried, thundering imperialist war condemnations in context with current events King was not permitted to live to see.
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 January 20, 2008
Corporate Media Keeps King 'in his place'! Buries King's Fiery Condemnation of US Wars

King thundered eloquently against U.S. genocidal imperialist wars, international predatory capitalism, factually denounced CIA overseas crimes, the cruel indifference and blind immorality of America. Corporate media blocks public knowledge of the fury of King's outcry over U.S. wars of occupation and the powerful and vehement anti war pronouncements from his Beyond Vietnam speech, that made bold headlines news around the world
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February 13, 2007
King's Anguish versus Our Apathy Then and Now / Quote Rev. King Day, the 15th of EACH Month

Passages from King's Beyond Vietnam, if widely known, would be enough to make network entertainment/news current promotion of both Vietnam and Iraq military ventures as glorious look ridiculous at best or dastardly otherwise. King spoke firstly to the foreign lives so wantonly taken in the destruction of their homelands. That the 5th of each month be "Quote MLKjr Day" for peace and justice ctivists.
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August 17, 2007
MLK Jr. & Acceptable Killing of Children by Air Strkes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia

What if the heartbreaking photo had instead been that of an AMERICAN
father clasping his dying infant son to his chest staring vacantly into the camera, holding an American child with shrapnel wounds. Amoral Mr. & Mrs. America approve sending terror under the American flag! MLK Jr said, "Every man of humane convictions must protest." ts easy. Just quote King! We need his moral leadership.
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July 22, 2007
Rev. King Jr. Re: U.S. Extermination Programs and 1/2 Humanity living on $2 a Day

An Anglo-American terror tactic of extermination is traced up to present indiscriminate air strikes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia stopping off at genocide in Vietnam to quote MLK Jr., who is also quoted regarding capitalism's horrendous effect on most of the non-Western world, making a breeding ground for communism then and today's savage suicide bombing reaction to the brutal violence of the superpower over control of oil.
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June 17, 2007
A Letter to MLK Jr. re the Same Media War Promotion He Fought & the FCC

Dear Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Jr., we are still watching the same war mongering on television as when you were with us, but we are much more zeroed-in on the fact that only deceitful conglomerate media programming makes wars possible by first making war acceptable. Here is what media has been doing to us. Here is how we are finally filing complaints with the FCC in your style and in your name by phone, fax, mail and e-mail.
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May 16, 2007
The Silence of Clergy Today versus Rev. King's "Silence is Betrayal!"

At the polls, citizens have finally expressed themselves against the war in Iraq. Candidates and incumbents feel the need to call for an end to the war. But we rarely hear even a peep from Clergy. Is this for its observing the doctrine of Separation of Church and State or because the Church has become bound to the State and separated from its faith?
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April 15, 2007
Quote A Martyred Progressive's Condemnation of U.S. Wars

Asks why Congressional Black Caucus and Progressive Caucus do not repeat MLK's condemnation of U.S. war policies on the floor of Congress. The fourth article in the series appearing on the 15th of each month exhorting peace and justice activists to follow the example of Howard Zinn, who, in radio interviews quotes King Jr.' strong condemnations of U.S. murderous war policies and the use of its military throughout the 3rd world
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March 16, 2007
Dems, Bush, Fear Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.' Words! Shake 'em Up!
Quote King!

Exhorting peace and justice activists to follow the example of Howard
Zinn, who, in radio interviews quotes Martin Luther King Jr.'s strong
condemnations of U.S. murderous war policies and the use of its
military throughout the third world to support inequitable and
oppressive trade arrangements. Send King's words to Dems backing the
Iraq occupation!
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April 5, 2007
MLK Assassination Anniversary Yesterday Unnoticed, Useful Today

A Memphis jury's verdict on December 8, 1999, in the wrongful death lawsuit of the King family versus Loyd Jowers "and other unknown co-conspirators," found that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a conspiracy that included agencies of his own overnment. Read UN Ambassador Andrew Young testimony. put King's condemnation of U.S. wars to use today as 'peoples historian Howard
Zinn does in his radio interviews!
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January 15, 2007
King's Anguish When He Condemned U.S. War Crimes and Foreign Policy Worthy of Emulation

A call for activists to make frequent use of the words of Martin Luther King Jr in his 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam, condemning the U.S. war in Vietnam and its violent foreign policy toward countries in the third world. Being that the entire speech is relevant to our deathly predicament today, and King's stature being such that his outcry and accusations if often quoted could have a belated effect on foreign policy.
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Authors Website: http://prosecuteuscrimesagainsthumanitynow.blogspot.com

Authors Bio:

Jay Janson is an archival research peoples historian activist, musician and writer; has lived and worked on all continents; articles on media published in China, Italy, UK, India, in Germany & Sweden Einartysken,and in the US by Dissident Voice; Global Research; Information Clearing House; Counter Currents; Minority Perspective, UK,and others; now resides in NYC; First effort was a series of articles on deadly cultural pollution endangering seven areas of life emanating from Western corporate owned commercial media published in Hong Kong's Window Magazine 1993; Howard Zinn lent his name to various projects of his; Weekly column, South China Morning Post, 1986-87; reviews for Ta Kung Bao; article China Daily, 1989. Is coordinator of the Howard Zinn co-founded King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign, and website historian of the Ramsey Clark co-founded Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now Campaign, which contains a history of US crimes in 19 nations. Dissident Voice supports this website with link at the end of each issue of its newsletter.