Ajamu Baraka in Sunday Political Talk Show interviews during 2013-2015

On Foreign Policy: Link the domestic with international to avoid US-centrism

On Government Reform: Dead-end fear-mongering politics chooses lesser of 2 evils

Baraka says that the Green Party is an ideal hub for him to continue to work towards his objective of a radical, racial democratic governance that responds to the needs of the people, rather than ignore them as the two major political parties have historically done. "One of the reasons why I joined this campaign is that Jill Stein sees that in order to build this new movement in the U.S., that a critical component of that has to be the revitalized Black liberation movement, grounded in the working class," he added.

On Foreign Policy: Served on Amnesty International board & human rights groups

He's served on boards of several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International (USA) and the National Center for Human Rights Education. He's also served on boards of the Center for Constitutional Rights; Africa Action; Latin American Caribbean Community Center; Diaspora Afrique and the Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights.

Stein described Baraka as "a powerful, eloquent spokesperson for the transformative, radical agenda whose time has come--an agenda of economic, social, racial, gender, climate, indigenous and immigrant justice. Ajamu's life's work has embodied the immortal words of Dr. Martin Luther King: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

On War & Peace: Mideast military interventions results in complete chaos

He went on to say that military tactics so far have not seemed to help. "It's clear that the military option has not worked. You've had military interventions now throughout the entire Middle East," he said. "You see the results: complete and utter chaos." He also argues that America's involvement was the result of a devious strategy to escalate a minor political irritant into a major concern for Americans. Baraka concluded, "We have to make a determination: whose interests are we in fact supporting when we support these ventures to these foreign countries?"

On Gun Control: Race-motivated mass shootings aren't about gun control

Then, the state and corporate media followed-up this framing with a fascinating sleight-of-hand stunt: instead of focusing on the domestic security threat posed by violent, racist right-wing extremists groups in the country, the old trope of gun control--along with a new twist, removing the Confederate flag--became the new focus! The implication was that by removing the Confederate battle flag, that would somehow move the country towards racial reconciliation, much like electing a black president was supposed to do.

On Jobs: Jobs agenda is meaningless in context of globalization

Obama and the Democrats understand and accept that the contemporary logic of global neoliberalism means that the U.S. economy is being restructured and that millions of workers are being shifted into low-wage service sector jobs, for those lucky enough to be employed. Low wages, unequal regional economic development, extreme income inequality, disproportionately high unemployment rates for African Americans, are all a structurally determined consequence of neoliberal social policies, and liberals understand this.

On Foreign Policy: American exceptionalism is revisionist fairy tale

It is that story which informs the thinking of Pres. Obama when he declares that the US 'has been the anchor of global security' i.e. the provider of an indispensable safety net without which transcontinental chaos would have ensued. In his version of exceptionalism, the brutal war in Vietnam was a war to free the Vietnamese people from communism, and the millions of people who died in Iraq were worth the price to get rid of Saddam Hussein.

On Drugs: War on drugs a guise to militarize police against minorities

There are connections between the US state-sanctioned violence in the forms of targeted imprisonment, military occupations of black and brown communities and imperialist wars fought primarily against non-white people of the global South. We [need a] movement that can withstand the attempts to divide us internally, and that we can keep the focus where it needs to be--on transforming ourselves and the world.

On Crime: Apply international rights against U.S. racial profiling

The Convention Against Racial Discrimination would help effectively address racial profiling in a way that existing civil rights law does not. Racial profiling continues to be a widespread and pervasive problem throughout the United States, impacting the lives of millions of people in the African American, Asian, Latino, South Asian, Arab and Muslim communities. Congress can take direct action to help address the scourge of racial and ethnic profiling by bringing this country into conformity with the Convention Against Racial Discrimination.