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U.S. Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala Should be Real Headline

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 23:59 — Ajamu Baraka

by Ajamu Baraka

Now that former Guatemalan president Efrain Rios Montt has been convicted of genocide, it’s time for the “hegemonic puppeteer,” the United States, to be put on trial. “U.S. officials were fully aware of the pogrom against the Ixil people in the mountains of Guatemala at the very moment that the U.S. government was involved in training and arming the Guatemalan military.”

“Operation Ghetto Storm”: The New Face of U.S. Fascism

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 17:48 — Ajamu Baraka

by Ajamu Baraka

The pace quickens in the killing of Black people in the U.S. Operation Ghetto Storm, a new report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, clocks the rate of extrajudicial executions of African Americans at one every 28 hours – up from last year’s report titled Every Thirty-Six Hours. The murder of Blacks is integral to “the government’s overall strategy of containing the Black community in a state of perpetual colonial subjugation and exploitation.”

The Assassination Of Dr. King And The Suppression Of The Anti-War And Peace Perspectives

Tue, 04/02/2013 - 19:22 — Ajamu Baraka

by Ajamu Baraka

This week marks the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. In those years, a King has emerged who bears little in common with the man who lived and struggled and died in the Freedom Movement. Killing the man was the work of an instant. Suppressing and distorting his legacy have been full time projects ever since.

War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: The story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq

Tue, 03/19/2013 - 13:12 — Ajamu Baraka

by Ajamu Baraka

A decade after the US attempt to “shock and awe” humanity and usher in its new “American century” more than a million Iraqis are dead, and trillions of dollars have been squandered, while the high ranking architects and enablers of these monstrous crimes are still riding high...

The Descent: From Dr. King to Barack Obama

Tue, 01/22/2013 - 15:31 — Ajamu Baraka

 

by Ajamu Baraka

Two Nobel prizes, two different eras, awarded to Black men of near-polar opposite politics. The clash between the historically progressive African American worldview and allegiance to the corporate militarist in the White House puts great strains on the Black polity. “As African Americans, we are experiencing our most profound existential crisis since our collective experience of being enslaved.”

Human Rights and Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria: A View From an African American Defender of Human Rights

Tue, 10/02/2012 - 15:32 — Ajamu Baraka

By Ajamu Baraka

iiWho is killing whom in Syria and why? And to whom should we be listening ---- to our corporate media, State Department, and the same corps of “human rights activists” who applauded the Western invasion of Libya, and the dispatch of US special forces to Africa?

Trayvon Martin and the Need for an Independent Human Rights Movement

Wed, 04/04/2012 - 00:08 — Ajamu Baraka

 

by Ajamu Baraka

The author calls for a “National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights” to escape the constraining web of “liberal” cause funders that lack “any connection to grassroots organizations or popular social change networks, alliances or coalitions.” Genuine human rights defenders realize that comprehensive demands can “only be realized when there is a shift in power away from the capitalist state and the white supremacist Republican and Democratic parties.”

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