Ajamu Baraka

Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era: A New Awakening or Political Theater?
28 May 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The corporate media only cried foul when their own perceived privileges are threatened, even as President Obama’s “approach to civil liberties turned his administration into act three…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
U.S. Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala Should be Real Headline
15 May 2013
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…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
“Operation Ghetto Storm”: The New Face of U.S. Fascism
17 Apr 2013
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…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Assassination Of Dr. King And The Suppression Of The Anti-War And Peace Perspectives
03 Apr 2013
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…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: The story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq
19 Mar 2013
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,…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Descent: From Dr. King to Barack Obama
23 Jan 2013
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…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Human Rights and Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria: A View From an African American Defender of Human Rights
03 Oct 2012
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…
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Trayvon Martin and the Need for an Independent Human Rights Movement
04 Apr 2012
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…