Ajamu Baraka
Ajamu Baraka was the 2016 candidate for vice president on the Green Party ticket. He is an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report and contributing columnist for Counterpunch magazine. His latest publications include contributions to Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence (Counterpunch Books, 2014), Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA (HarperCollins, 2014) and Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral ( CODESRIA, 2013). He can be reached at www.AjamuBaraka.com
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Views Wednesday, June 04, 2014 Elections in Syria: The People Say No to Foreign Intervention Defying threats of violence, tens of thousands of ordinary Syrians went to the polls to cast a vote that was more about Syrian dignity and self-determination than any of the candidates on the ballot. After three years of unimaginable atrocities fomented by a demented and dying U.S. empire, with the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Why a Principled Left Should Support the Benghazi Inquiry Seemingly out of nowhere, Boko Haram burst into the awareness of people around the world as a shadowy group of Islamists with the ability to carry out audacious attacks that paralyzed the army of the most populous country in Africa. People now want to know the group’s origins, where they came from... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 02, 2014 Beyond Donald Sterling: American Racism from the "Redskins" to Drone Strikes The hypocrisy of race discourse in the U.S. is breathtaking. A week after Cliven Bundy, the white supremacist rancher in Nevada, voiced his views on slavery and the current plight of urban-based black communities that many white Americans either believe or have considered, the public is now... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 01, 2014 Corporate Oligarchy or People’s Democracy? For more than a decade, radical analysis has provided reams of studies revealing the political and economic dominance of an increasingly narrow sector of the U.S. and European corporate and financial elite. However, the warnings and political implications of this domination have received little... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 18, 2014 The Jewish Community Center Shootings: White-Washing White Terrorism Overland Park, a city of fewer than 200,000 in the heartland of the U.S. just south of Kansas City, is an unlikely setting for a terrorist attack. But on April 13, Frazier Glenn Cross, aka Frazier Glenn Miller, brought terror to Overland Park. With the intention to “kill him some Jews,” Miller,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 02, 2014 Left-Right White Solidarity? “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (George Santayana) Some years ago Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri suggested that while not always visible in the social practices of everyday European life, the racist foundation for European fascism was still present, safely... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 05, 2014 Let Them Eat Symbols: Obama’s Plan for the Long-Term Unemployed Read more |
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Views Friday, October 04, 2013 Spending, Debt and the Shutdown: The Bi-Partisan “Disappearance” of Race and Class Whatever the result of the current governmental stalemate, one thing is certain: The ongoing crisis of workers in general and the African American working class and poor in particular will continue unabated. Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 25, 2013 The Military Coup in Egypt: Requiem for a Revolution that Never Was “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.” –Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention” I continue to be amazed with the ease with which the dividing line is blurred between what is real and what is fiction in the reporting on Syria by the Western media. The press in the U.S. continues to dutifully report on the “objective diplomacy” by the Obama administration to broker a “peaceful” resolution to the conflict in Syria. Read more |