Articles by Ajamu Baraka
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(Français) La responsabilité de protéger le monde… des États-Unis
Ajamu Baraka | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
L’une des armes de propagande les plus ingénieuses jamais mises au point est que les puissantes nations occidentales dirigées par les États-Unis ont la responsabilité morale d’utiliser la force militaire pour protéger les droits des peuples opprimés par leurs gouvernements. Cette «responsabilité de protéger» (R2P) a toujours eu un statut juridique douteux, mais sa justification morale exigeait aussi un désengagement psychologique et historique de la réalité sanglante des 500 ans d’histoire du colonialisme américain et européen, de l’esclavage, du génocide et de la torture qui ont créé l’ «Occident ».
→ read full articleThe Responsibility to Protect the World … from the United States
Ajamu Baraka - CounterPunch,
22 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – One of the most ingenious propaganda weapons ever developed is that the powerful nations of the West—led by the United States—have a moral responsibility to use military force to protect the rights of people being repressed by their governments. This “responsibility to protect” (R2P) always had a dubious legal standing, but its moral justification also required a psychological and historical disengagement from the bloody reality of the 500-hundred-year history of U.S. and European colonialism, slavery, genocide and torture that created the “West.”
→ read full articleNo, ‘Je Suis Charleston’?: The De-Politicization of Black Oppression
Ajamu Baraka – Black Agenda Report,
6 Jul 2015
Where was the worldwide revulsion at the racist terror attack in Charleston? Obama sang ‘Amazing Grace’ and lulled into a stupefying silence black voices that should have demanded answers. The old trope of gun control – along with a new twist, removing the Confederate flag – became the new focus.
→ read full articleSanctions for Russia and a Green Light for Israel to Continue War Crimes
Ajamu Baraka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
A permanent solution will not come from the U.S. or the Israeli colonial state, and with over 80% of Israeli civil society in support of the military assault on Gaza no justice will come from that sector either. A just solution of the Palestine/Israel issue can only be facilitated by the international community (international meaning beyond the U.S. and Europe).
→ read full articleMoral Hypocrisy and U.S. Exceptionalism
Ajamu Baraka - Global Research,
16 Sep 2013
In his recent op-ed in the New York Times, Vladimir Putin raised hackles among the talking-heads across the U.S. when he questioned the wisdom of President Obama’s evocation of the narcissistic idea of “American exceptionalism.” After all, the exceptionalism of the U.S. has never been a subject for reasoned discussion or debate in the media or elsewhere.
→ read full articleWar Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: The Story of U.S. Exceptionalism in Iraq
Ajamu Baraka – Global Research,
1 Apr 2013
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq, one of the most egregious expressions of naked power and imperial ambition since the Second World War. The attack defied both an outraged world opinion — expressed by global mass demonstrations — and the United Nations charter. It also marked a change from the previous veiled decorum of supposed adherence to international law that defined post-war international relations.
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