Ajamu Baraka

Ajamu Baraka is the national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and 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. 

The Paris Attacks and the White Lives Matter Movement

War, Repression and International Gangsterism: U.S. State Policy From Benghazi to Baltimore

The Obama Two-Step on Syria

The Yemen Tragedy and the Ongoing Crisis of the Left in the United States

Why is Cornel West Playing a Human Shield for the Democrats – Once Again?

Making Black Lives Matter in Riohacha, Colombia

The Martyrdom of Sandra Bland and the Struggle Against State Repression

No ‘Je Suis Charleston’?

Black America and the Political Economy of Neoliberal Trade Deals

Stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a “Black Issue”

Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance

Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance

Saudi Arabia’s Invasion of Yemen

Netanyahu’s Victory is an Even Bigger Victory for Palestinian Solidarity Movement

Selma, Obama and the Colonization of Black Resistance

Obama’s Legacy: Permanent War and Liberal Accommodation?

European Lives Have Always Mattered More Than Others

Ferguson and the Right of Resistance

Violence and Resistance in Palestine

Violence and Resistance in Palestine

As ISIS Slaughters Kurds in Kobani, the U.S. Bombs Syrian Grain Silos

Shifting the Paradigm on Israel

Israeli State Terrorism in Gaza

The Human Rights Crisis in Iraq

The Syrian Elections

From Benghazi to Boko Haram

Racism in Sports

White-Washing White Terrorism

Zombie Democracy in the USA

Left-White Solidarity?

Ukraine and the Pathology of the Liberal Worldview

The Latest Call for Humanitarian War in Syria

Let Them Eat Symbols

The Obama Administration’s Orwellian Subterfuge on Syria

The Budget Deal and Neoliberals

The Need for an Ethical and Political De-Colonization of Human Rights

The Bi-Partisan Disappearance of Race and Class

Humanitarian Intervention

The Human Rights Hypocrisy of the West

Obama Should Not be Welcomed at the March on Washington Commemoration

Requiem for a Revolution that Never Was

The Naked Imperialism of Humanitarian Intervention

Syria and the Sham of Humanitarian Intervention

The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era

US Guilty of Genocide

May Day and the Failure of the Immigrant Rights Movement

The Assassination of Martin Luther King and the Peace Movement

War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Iraq

The Descent: From Dr. King to Barack Obama