{"id":355208,"date":"2018-04-04T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jfk-mlk-and-the-triple-evils\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:07:55","slug":"jfk-mlk-and-the-triple-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jfk-mlk-and-the-triple-evils\/","title":{"rendered":"JFK, MLK, and the Triple Evils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_101032\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101032\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-03-at-10.02.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"291\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Helena | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>Two Murders <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do not pretend to know the full stories behind the assassinations or executions of either John F. Kennedy (JFK) or Martin Luther King, Jr., the latter killed in Memphis, Tennessee, exactly 50 years ago today.\u00a0 Were one or both them killed by lone gunmen?\u00a0 By the CIA? The FBI? Organized crime? The U.S. military? Some combination of these?<\/p>\n<p>There are good reasons to doubt the official stories and suspect \u201cdeep state\u201d conspiracies in both cases. But don\u2019t ask me for any definitive answers. I don\u2019t have any and I doubt I ever will. (Don\u2019t ask me about Bobby Kennedy either).<\/p>\n<p>I can, however, definitively mark as absurd the messages I periodically get from purportedly left people telling me to see the killing of JFK in the same light as the murder of Dr. King\u2014as if both iconic 1960s figures were great peoples\u2019 leaders fighting heroically for racial equality, social justice and peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JFK Atop the Triple Evils<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That, it can be definitively said, is nonsense. The super-wealthy corporate-liberal and proto-neoliberal JFK spent the lion\u2019s share of his presidency on the wrong side of each of what King called \u201cthe triple evils that are interrelated\u201d: racism, economic injustice (capitalism) and militarism. Kennedy is a false progressive idol of the highest order, something you won\u2019t learn about on MSNBC (\u201cMSDNC\u201d), where Democratic Party commentator Chris Matthews lives in a seemingly permanent state of Kennedy family&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/04\/04\/against-false-conflation-jfk-mlk-and-the-triple-evils\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Helena | CC BY 2.0 Two Murders I do not pretend to know the full stories behind the assassinations or executions of either John F. Kennedy (JFK) or Martin Luther King, Jr., the latter killed in Memphis, Tennessee, exactly 50 years ago today.\u00a0 Were one or both them killed by lone gunmen?\u00a0 By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}