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At Last, A Real Middle East Democracy Project
Friday, 10 February 2006, 1:28 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The spectacular Hamas victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections of January 25 has given rise to a new era of politics in Palestine, the Middle East and in the Arab and Muslim world as a whole. More >>
Punishing Denmark: Taking on the Wrong Enemy
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 12:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
Only an irresponsible and intellectually inept individual would sketch such insulting images as those depicting Prophet Mohamed by a cartoonist in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. And no self-respecting newspaper would allow itself to run such filth. ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Avoiding Iraq Fallout with Iran
Friday, 27 January 2006, 1:08 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the new face of evil, US officials and media want us to believe. The dialectics that yielded such a conclusion have been offered in abundance within thousands of news broadcasts, commentaries and official ... More >>
Exalting Sharon: A Dire Case of Collective Amnesia
Monday, 23 January 2006, 11:05 am | Ramzy Baroud
The mainstream media’s lionizing and exalting of the fatally ill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could only be compared to that of great men and women of past years. More >>
Exalting Sharon: A Dire Case of Collective Amnesia
Friday, 20 January 2006, 1:40 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The mainstream media’s lionizing and exalting of the fatally ill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could only be compared to that of great men and women of past years. More >>
Politics of Chaos: Gaza’s Turmoil in Context
Thursday, 12 January 2006, 10:57 am | Ramzy Baroud
The most recent kidnappings in the Gaza Strip are a disheartening testimony to how factionalism, corruption and lack of discipline can scar a national struggle that was meant to exemplify precisely the opposite. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Abundance of Hope for New Year
Monday, 9 January 2006, 1:45 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Celebrating a new year is an entirely sentimental decision, relevant to some, extraneous to others, and can indeed serve a greater purpose than random festivity and excess. It could actually be, and it is for many, an occasion to reflect on the successes ... More >>
Palestinian Politics brought to a Crossroad
Friday, 30 December 2005, 1:05 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian political life seems to be unwittingly embracing a distinctive style, contradicting its own traditional political parameters. The last few weeks clearly attest to this political divergence. More >>
US Image Problem Rooted in History, Not Media
Sunday, 25 December 2005, 7:11 am | Ramzy Baroud
US President George W. Bush yet once again blamed Arab media for his country’s image problem. "I recognize we got an image issue, particularly when you have television stations, Arabic television stations that are constantly just pounding America - ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Bush’s New Strategy Hastens Defeat
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 11:22 am | Ramzy Baroud
In a landmark speech before a most friendly audience at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis on November 30, President Bush repeated a familiar mantra. His pronouncements were crafty and political, yet were neither concerned with the plight of Iraqis nor Americans, ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Media is No Exception
Friday, 9 December 2005, 4:24 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The further decline of Arab states’ political aptitude in recent years and their failure to produce even a trifling token of unity as a collective, or true sovereignty and self-assertiveness as individual states, is reflected in almost every aspect ... More >>
Another Meaning of Israel’s Political ‘Earthquake’
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 1:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Most of what has been written or said to depict Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's departure from the Likud party is parable to an "earthquake," or the "eruption of a volcano," and has, without a doubt, turned the Israeli political map "topsy-turvy," ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Gaza Border Deal
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 3:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Starting Nov. 25, Palestinians from the Gaza Strip may, in theory, be able to freely cross the Rafah border into Egypt, according to an agreement brokered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Blame It on Arafat
Friday, 18 November 2005, 10:47 am | Ramzy Baroud
Despite initial claims that Yasser Arafat’s absence - as an ‘obstacle’ to peace - would reinvigorate the Arab-Israel peace process, events on the ground fail to point toward such a reality, one year after the powerful Palestinian leader’s death. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Rosa Parks' Enduring Legacy
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 12:00 am | Ramzy Baroud
What I find truly remarkable in Rosa Parks’ now legendary defiance is the simple forthrightness of her actions. Her death, at the age of 92, should be more than a sober reminder of the legacy of a legendary Civil Rights pioneer, but rather a reminder ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Rolling Back Syria
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 10:38 am | Ramzy Baroud
The Syria verdict is out. In fact, it has been out for years, long before German investigator-judge Detlev Mehlis inundated us with the findings of his ground shaking report regarding who planned, funded and carried out the assassination of former ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Palestinian Quest to Break Away
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 12:00 am | Ramzy Baroud
Israel’s unilateral disengagement from Gaza has undoubtedly raised the level of mistrust among Palestinians toward what is now seen as the Sharon government’s irrevocable designs on the whole of the Occupied Territories. More >>
Myths About Iraq Must Be Dispelled For War To End
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 11:22 am | Ramzy Baroud
In the weeks and months preceding the Iraq war in March 2003, various US officials informed the already baffled public that the war would be marred with tactical misinformation for the sole purpose of derailing Iraq’s war stratagems and ultimately protecting ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Real Disengagement Plan Now at Work
Thursday, 13 October 2005, 12:11 am | Ramzy Baroud
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his right wing government could not have possibly envisioned a more gratifying scenario to the post-disengagement period than the one effectively advancing in the Gaza Strip. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Bush's Choice, America or the Empire
Friday, 7 October 2005, 12:40 am | Ramzy Baroud
Deep down, U.S. President George W. Bush should grasp the seriousness of his debacle. If true, then he must also appreciate the time element in averting the worse-case scenario, which he, along with an increasingly alienated number of ideologues are ... More >>