Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Fragmentation, Force, and Fascism: The Architecture of the Repressive National Security State
21 Jan 2026
The state is not drifting toward repression; it is building it with serious intent. ICE raids, militarized police, and mass surveillance are the tools of a system designed to manage and silence…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Breaking the Silence Revisited: Gaza, Venezuela, and the Enduring Relevance of Dr. King’s Critique of Empire
14 Jan 2026
The annual ritual of sanitizing Martin Luther King Jr. serves to obscure his radical anti-war politics, which are urgently needed to challenge U.S. imperialism.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist , Larry Johnson
U.S. Aggression Against Venezuela
07 Jan 2026
Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, Ajamu Baraka, joins Spotlight on Press TV to analyze the latest developments in Venezuela, how and why this illegal…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Venezuela, Even More Than Palestine, Is the Linchpin of a Consistent Radical Left in The Era of Global Neofascism Led by the U.S.
07 Jan 2026
Solidarity with Palestine tests morality, but solidarity with Venezuela tests politics. The recent U.S. intervention demands a radical left moving from moral outrage to a material confrontation with…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Lifting the Veil on International Human Rights Day: How Gaza Exposed the Oxymoron of Western Values and Human Rights
10 Dec 2025
The genocide in Gaza has torn off the West’s human rights mask. This naked colonial violence demands a new path where rights are won through people's struggle, not granted by the very states that…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist , Dimitri Lascaris
US Attack On Venezuela Would Cause 'Chaos' In The Region w/ Ajamu Baraka
03 Dec 2025
Ajamu Baraka, BAR Editor and Columnist, joins Dimitri Lascaris to discuss the potential US attack on Venezuela and its regional impact. The conversation explores the legality and morality of recent…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
United Nations Security Council Resolution on Gaza is a Surrender to U.S. Led Global Fascism
26 Nov 2025
By approving a U.S. "peace plan" that legitimizes genocide and ends the right to resist, the United Nations Security Council has not just failed Palestine—it has actively consolidated a new era of…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright , Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
COPing Out In Brazil: How The United Nations Reduces its Legitimacy More Than Global Emissions
19 Nov 2025
Despite being held in Brazil, a nation with the largest Black population outside of the African continent, COP30 has continued a thirty-year pattern of sidelining the specific climate threats to Afro…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Fascism Born in the Colonies, Not Europe
05 Nov 2025
Europe refined fascism in its colonies long before bringing the model home.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Z!0nIsm and Race in the White Empire | w/ Gerald Horne & Ajamu Baraka
05 Nov 2025
BAR Editor and Columnist, Ajamu Baraka, joined BettBeat Media alongside Gerald Horne to discuss zionism and white supremacy.