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Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle.
He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out'. His other books include ‘My Father was a Freedom Fighter' and ‘The Last Earth'. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA).
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Big Bang or Chaos: What's Israel Up To?
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 1:42 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Why did Israel attack Gaza with such brutality? Did Israeli officials think, even for a fleeting moment, that their army's attacks could halt, as opposed to intensify, Palestinian rockets or retaliatory violence? Indeed, was Palestinian violence at ... More >>
Call for Support: Help Preserve Truthful Media
Monday, 17 March 2008, 12:45 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Palestine Chronicle Renews Its Call for Support: Help Preserve Truthful Media Ramzy Baroud, The Palestine Chronicle More >>
‘Unwavering Commitment’ to Inequality
Monday, 10 March 2008, 1:24 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Death hovered over Gaza long before locally-made Palestinian rockets struck near the Israeli southern town of Sderot on February 27, killing Roni Yechiah and sparking an Israeli ‘retaliation’ that has already claimed over 120 Palestinian lives. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Abbas Needs a Miracle
Friday, 29 February 2008, 5:31 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Time is running out for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Although both men are still committed to their risky venture of marginalising Hamas at any cost, the undertaking was doomed from the start. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Hezbollah And The 'Unknown Knowns'
Monday, 25 February 2008, 3:23 pm | Ramzy Baroud
While in the US media, only journalists like Seymour Hersh will have the nerve to point out the obvious, the Israeli media has not shied away from evidence of the Israeli intelligence's involvement in this well-calculated assassination. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: US Elections & The Iraq Factor
Sunday, 17 February 2008, 11:27 am | Ramzy Baroud
As the race for the US presidential nominations progresses, the stances of and attitudes towards both Republican and Democratic candidates continue to bring up causes for concern, in terms of their past behaviour, current appeal and general trustworthiness. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Media Language And War
Sunday, 10 February 2008, 11:16 am | Ramzy Baroud
Mindlessly repeating official discourses may be easier and more profitable, but it will make no helpful contribution to the field of journalism, and to any possibility of truth and justice. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: People's Power In Gaza
Monday, 4 February 2008, 11:07 am | Ramzy Baroud
In a radio interview prior to the US invasion of Iraq, David Barsamian asked Noam Chomsky what ordinary Americans could do to stop the war. Chomsky answered, "In some parts of the world people never ask, 'what can we do?' They simply do it." More >>
Ramzy Baroud: US Elections: Just Like the Movies
Sunday, 13 January 2008, 8:55 am | Ramzy Baroud
The United States political process bears an uncanny resemblance to mainstream filmmaking. Elections and speeches are scripted to the letter, politicians put on a tirelessly rehearsed act, catering endlessly to the whims of the target audience. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Iraq Charade
Monday, 7 January 2008, 9:45 am | Ramzy Baroud
In recent months, we have been inundated by media reports bringing good news from Iraq, with countless testimonials to the great improvement in security enjoyed by the country in general and the Baghdad area in particular. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Machiavellian Musharraf
Tuesday, 1 January 2008, 9:24 am | Ramzy Baroud
The US administration and Congress are likely to clash over the best ways to control Pakistan, to ensure Pakistan's continuous cooperation in the US 'war on terror'. The resulting US foreign policy posture is likely to affect changes. More >>
Politicizing Gaza’s Misery
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 2:20 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The intense debate over Gaza is subsiding as the status quo is, predictably, delineated by those with the bigger guns. But to what extent can human suffering be politicized, turned into an intellectual polemic that fails to affect the simplest change in people’s ... More >>
On Romney, Mormonism and Islam
Monday, 17 December 2007, 3:30 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech on December 6th - in which he tried to ‘explain’ his Mormon faith - was met with a mostly sympathetic reception at George Bush Library in Texas. More >>
The True Aim of Annapolis, and Why It Failed
Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 10:15 am | Ramzy Baroud
The US-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland was neither a success nor failure, if one accepts that its so-called objective was indeed ‘peacemaking’. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Demoralisation and Absence
Monday, 3 December 2007, 11:15 am | Ramzy Baroud
A once profound and widely read commentator recently claimed he no longer writes about the Palestine/Israel conflict because "Palestinians are killing each other". Feeling his words have ceased to carry weight he simply decided not "to take ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: A Matter of Opinion
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 12:59 am | Ramzy Baroud
What do an organic farmer from Spain, a union worker activist from Brazil, and a human rights scholar living in London have in common? They are all individuals who affect substantive change in their communities, and they are also individuals who ... More >>
Somalia: What the News Failed to Report
Monday, 19 November 2007, 12:45 am | Ramzy Baroud
The people of Somalia are enduring yet another round of suffering as Ethiopian forces wreck havoc in the capital, Mogadishu. Apparently in response to an attack on one of its units, and the dragging of a soldier’s mutilated body through the city’s ... More >>
Peace and Democracy must go Hand in Hand
Monday, 12 November 2007, 11:07 am | Ramzy Baroud
After years of marked absence, the Bush administration has finally decided to upgrade its involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The announcement of a Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland has raised red flags for anyone who ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: A Case for Arab Dignity
Saturday, 3 November 2007, 2:25 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The ongoing socio-economic and political ills that mar potential progress in Middle Eastern countries can largely be attributed to the ill-defined foreign policy of the United States. Utterly desperate situations have arisen whereby US clients rule ... More >>
Controlling the Debate on Palestine, Israel
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 12:47 am | Ramzy Baroud
The last time I spoke publicly in the United States before my current tour was nearly four years ago. During this time I had travelled the world, passing my message to people in nearly 20 countries. Wherever I went, my calls for justice for the Palestinian ... More >>
