Ajamu Baraka

Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Budget Deal and Neoliberalism: The U.S. and South African Connection
08 Jan 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Capitalism has made good use of the world’s two most prominent Black men. Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela served as the faces that defused Black opposition to…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Bi-Partisan Disappearance of Race and Class
09 Oct 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The ruling elites in both parties are bent on reducing the power and living standards of labor and increasing the dominance of Wall Street. Pervasive racism makes their job that much…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
An African American Perspective on U.S. Exceptionalism
18 Sep 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Russian leader Vladimir Putin caused great consternation when he countered President Obama’s assertions of American “exceptionalism” in the pages of the New…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Humanitarian Intervention: The Human Rights Gift That Keeps on Giving to U.S. Imperialism
04 Sep 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka So-called “humanitarian” military intervention is nothing more than “a convenient cover for rationalizing and justifying continued Euro-American global…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
President Obama Should Not Be Welcomed at March on Washington Commemoration
20 Aug 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The Black “leaders” that invited the commander-in-chief of the racist global capitalist order to the Washington Mall, later this month, are committing a desecration. “It brings a…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
We Condemn Massacre of Egyptian Civilians and U.S. Military Ties
20 Aug 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The author, a member of the Green Shadow cabinet, says the “U.S. government is deeply implicated in the murder, injury and arrest of thousands of Egyptians, perpetrated by the…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Military Coup in Egypt: Requiem for a Revolution That Never Was
24 Jul 2013
by Ajamu Baraka In the two-and-a-half years between the ouster of Mubarak by the Egyptian military and the ouster of President Morsi by that same military, no revolutionary process occurred. Yet, “…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
From Egypt to Syria: Is The Gulf Cooperation Council the Tail That Wags the U.S. Dog?
10 Jul 2013
by Ajamu Baraka It is possible that the coup in Egypt was not a U.S.-initiated affair but, rather, a sign of declining U.S. influence in the region. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Naked Imperialism of Humanitarian Intervention
19 Jun 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The U.S. imperial juggernaut attempts to bamboozle its home audience with the fiction that its war against Syria is a “humanitarian” venture. “The immediate priority for anti-war,…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention”
04 Jun 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The doctrine of “humanitarian” military intervention “has developed into the most effective ideological weapon the liberal human rights community provided Western imperialism since…