Ramzy Baroud - Latest News [Page 59]
Baroud: Palestinian Power-Struggle - Siege Within
Monday, 9 October 2006, 1:12 pm | Ramzy Baroud
It is no secret that the Palestinian people have always struggled with the problem of impotent, self-seeking leaderships, who have historically invested far greater time fending for their own status and position at the helm — however worthless ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Risk of Misreading US-Iran Dispute
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 7:38 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The ongoing war of words between US President George W. Bush and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, coupled with deluded western media misconceptions or intentional misrepresentations of the true nature of the escalating conflict, can be utterly misleading, and must ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Risk of Misreading US-Iran Dispute
Friday, 29 September 2006, 9:38 am | Ramzy Baroud
The ongoing war of words between US President George W. Bush and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, coupled with deluded western media misconceptions or intentional misrepresentations of the true nature of the escalating conflict, can be utterly misleading, and must ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Next Palestinian Struggle
Monday, 25 September 2006, 1:49 pm | Ramzy Baroud
LONDON - An expert in international law and an old friend of the Palestinian people wrote me with utter distress a few days after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh were reported to have reached an agreement Sept. ... More >>
Murdoch Almighty: When Public Loses Opinion
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 2:26 pm | Ramzy Baroud
People imagine that their opinions are their own, not those of corporate moguls who compete to colonise the public sphere. We are not as free in thought as we think. More >>
Bush PR Campaign: Back to the Basics
Monday, 18 September 2006, 12:14 am | Ramzy Baroud
Removed from reality, self-consumed and desperate, the Bush administration went on another PR offensive, in what is considered the “third most major public relations effort” in the last year. More >>
Kidnapped In Gaza: Chaos As A Strategy
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:01 am | Ramzy Baroud
Two Fox News journalists, Steve Cantani and Olas Wing were released by their Palestinian kidnappers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, August 27. Just one day earlier, two Reuters’ cameramen were seriously wounded in an apparently deliberate Israeli strike on their ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Day After
Thursday, 31 August 2006, 11:16 am | Ramzy Baroud
If it is true that the 33-day war on Lebanon was the culmination of regional developments and that it can hardly be fathomed separate from the brutal Israeli war on Gaza or the faltering American imperial project in Iraq, then it is hardly inconsistent to ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: The Real Terrorism Plot
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 11:08 am | Ramzy Baroud
And yet another menacing terror plot was thwarted 10 August, with the arrest of 24 suspects, all British Muslims. It was an ominous conspiracy aimed at committing "mass murder" on an "unimaginable" scale, British authorities quickly concluded. More >>
Lebanon: A Critical Battle for New Middle East
Friday, 18 August 2006, 3:14 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Using the July 12 capture of two Israeli soldiers - whose unit had apparently crossed the Israeli border into Lebanon - as a pretext, the Bush administration quickly sprung into action: imagining yet a new Middle East, where democracy and freedom reigns ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Logic Of Israel's War On Civilians
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 8:21 am | Ramzy Baroud
A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday, July 30 demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if indeed Israel had precise intelligence that a Hezbollah operative was present in the village of ... More >>
Extraordinary Precision: Israel's War on Civilians
Thursday, 10 August 2006, 9:14 am | Ramzy Baroud
A Sky News newscaster, interviewing British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett on Sunday, July 30 demanded an answer to this paraphrased question: if indeed Israel had precise intelligence that a Hezbollah operative was present in the village of ... More >>
Baroud: More To Lebanon War Than Meets The Eye
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 3:22 pm | Ramzy Baroud
At first glance, history seems to repeat itself in Lebanon, where a lengthy cold war is intermittently interrupted by an extreme show of violence as traditional players quickly sprint into action, stacking their support behind one party or the other. More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Why is Israel Back in Gaza?
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 11:09 am | Ramzy Baroud
The disparity between Israel’s public narrative and its actual intents cannot possibly be any more palpable than in the current Gaza onslaught following the capture by Palestinians of an Israeli solider near Gaza in a daring June 25 raid on a military ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Racism Plagues West's Media Coverage
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 4:32 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Racism is "the belief that one 'racial group' is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination of power, prejudice and discrimination." More >>
Re-Interpreting Iraq: Propaganda Campaign Underway
Friday, 30 June 2006, 10:38 am | Ramzy Baroud
To their credit, top US Pentagon officials cautioned journalists and the public, since the Iraq war’s early days, that the dissemination of misinformation would be a vital weapon in their war strategy. Needless to say, they have certainly held true ... More >>
Re-Interpreting Iraq: Propaganda Campaign Underway
Friday, 30 June 2006, 10:38 am | Ramzy Baroud
To their credit, top US Pentagon officials cautioned journalists and the public, since the Iraq war’s early days, that the dissemination of misinformation would be a vital weapon in their war strategy. Needless to say, they have certainly held true ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Al-Zarqawi Death: Myth vs. Reality
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 2:37 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The convenient emergence and sudden disappearance of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi signals an end of an era. Though Washington and London insist on telling us that the ‘good news’ don’t necessary mean an end to Iraq’s bloodshed, the giddiness in British Prime ... More >>
Ramzy Baroud: Trying Times for Palestinians
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 11:15 am | Ramzy Baroud
The political and ideological division separating Palestinian society in the Occupied Territories has metamorphosed into a formidable chasm, despite the urgent need to consolidate Palestinian national unity in this current crisis. More >>
Israeli Exceptionalism: Hamas Is Not the Issue
Thursday, 8 June 2006, 2:51 pm | Ramzy Baroud
Recently, the Aljazeera online English service posed a seemingly simple question: “Should (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert talk with Hamas?” More >>
