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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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Ramzy Baroud: A Palestinian Miracle at the UN?
Tuesday, 14 August 2007, 11:46 am | Ramzy Baroud
Since the foundation of the United Nations' Security Council, the Palestinians did not manage to have any kind of sway that would allow them to block or amend a proposed resolution in any meaningful way. More >>
Alberto Gonzales and the Coup Against Democracy
Saturday, 4 August 2007, 4:05 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The name of Alberto Gonzales is rapidly becoming synonymous with all that has gone wrong under the Bush administration. Repeated media discussions of the US Secretary of State in the most contentious tones have served to lay the blame for all the ailments ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Bush's Real Agenda in Palestine
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 5:23 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The Hamas government crackdown on Mohamed Dahlan's corrupt security forces and affiliated gangs in the Gaza Strip in June appears to mark a turning point in the Bush administration's foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel. The supposed shift, however, is nothing ... More >>
Bush’s War Policy: When Time Heals Nothing
Monday, 23 July 2007, 10:57 am | Ramzy Baroud
The news of recent weeks emanating from Washington and Baghdad point to one clear, if not final, conclusion: The Bush administration's adventures in Iraq have been a complete failure. More >>
Alternative Media: Free Speech is Still Possible
Monday, 16 July 2007, 7:56 pm | Ramzy Baroud
To speak of an alternative media is to acknowledge the deficiency of the prevailing media, the mainstream, in addressing the issues, catering to the concerns, and responding to the woes of the general public, the overwhelming majority of people who are almost ... More >>
Palestinian Left: Lost Opportunity for Relevance
Monday, 9 July 2007, 8:51 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When Hamas members were elected as the majority bloc of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and as it became apparent that a US-led international embargo would be an adjoining price to that victory, I contacted many intellectuals and writers in Palestine, ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Democracy Defeated
Monday, 25 June 2007, 5:01 pm | Ramzy Baroud
All my forewarnings have suddenly been actualised, all at once: Gaza has descended into total and utter chaos; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has capitulated to Israel and to the United States without a shred of reservation; and the Palestinian ... More >>
War Foretold: Mark Twain and the Sins of Our Race
Monday, 18 June 2007, 2:27 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When I resorted to Mark Twain’s writings I attempted to escape, at least temporarily from my often distressing readings on war, politics and terror. But his “The Mysterious Stranger”, although published 1916, still left me with an eerie feel. The imaginative ... More >>
War Foretold: Mark Twain and the Sins of Our Race
Sunday, 17 June 2007, 9:41 pm | Ramzy Baroud
"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities," -- Mark Twain More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Boycotting Israel Effectively
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 11:45 am | Ramzy Baroud
South Africa's Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils whispered to me as I sat down following a most enthusiastic speech I gave at a recent conference in Cape Town: "if you want the world to heed to your call for boycotting Israel, the call has to ... More >>
Losing Afghanistan: Firepower Doesn’t Always Win
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 11:22 am | Ramzy Baroud
In a statement made available through the country’s Foreign Office, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khursheed Mahmood Kasuri chastised the “international community” for the “abandonment” of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of Soviet forces ... More >>
One Apartheid Regime Down; One More to Go
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 11:11 am | Ramzy Baroud
One Apartheid Regime Down; One More to Go More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Darfur - The Hourglass of Blood
Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:40 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The Darfur crisis in Sudan is perhaps the most politically convoluted conflict in the world today. Its underpinnings involve local, regional and international players, all selfishly vying for power and economic interests. More >>
Freedom for Alan Johnston: Freedom for Us All
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 5:14 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In Trafalgar Square in London, dozens of journalists representing every major news organization descended on a designated corner in the tourist infested area in support of Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent kidnapped in Gaza on March 12, 2006, one ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: A Paradigm Shift - America as Proxy
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:33 am | Ramzy Baroud
Conflicts in the Middle East are often orchestrated from afar, using proxies -- the least risky method to fight and win a war. Despite its geopolitical fragmentation, the Middle East is loosely united insofar as any major event in any given locale ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Not An Intellectual Squabble
Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 4:07 pm | Ramzy Baroud
In a spacious yet fortified UN compound in Rome members of the Palestine committee at the General Assembly repeated old mantras; they vowed support for the Palestinians, issued a press release and then went to lunch. More >>
War Anniversary: Israel, Palestine Links Absent
Monday, 2 April 2007, 2:28 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The Stockholm air was too cold, even for the most animated speaker to excite a crowd. But I had little choice: thousands of anti-war protesters had descended on the capital’s main square to show their support of the Iraqi people on the four-year anniversary ... More >>
The Arab Peace Initiative & The Changing ME
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 10:43 am | Ramzy Baroud
The rapid, almost hasty, developments on the Arab Israeli front, almost immediately following the Saudi sponsored Makkah Agreement on February 2, should be examined in their proper context, as a part and parcel of the regional shifts, exasperated ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Palestinians Must Redefine Struggle
Friday, 16 March 2007, 9:58 am | Ramzy Baroud
It’s never easy, although a sure assertion, to maintain that the Palestinian front, at home as well as abroad remains as fragmented and self-consumed, thus ineffective, as ever before, but most notably during the disastrous post-Oslo period. More >>
Peace and Justice Movement in Britain at Crossroad
Friday, 9 March 2007, 9:59 am | Ramzy Baroud
Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very familiar encounter: Israeli soldiers storming our house accompanied by shouts of terror and a barrage of insults. Such recollections make me shudder to this day. More >>
