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Ramzy Baroud

Articles

The Alternative Media: Free Speech is Still Possible

  • July 10, 2007, 9:51 am
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By RAMZY BAROUD To speak of an alternative media is to acknowledge the deficiency of the prevailing media, the mainstream, […]

The Palestinian Left: A Lost Opportunity

  • July 4, 2007, 6:52 pm
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By RAMZY BAROUD When Hamas members were elected as the majority bloc of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and as it […]

Finding Lessons in Gaza’s Bloodshed

  • June 28, 2007, 11:12 am
  • http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF27Ak05.html

By RAMZY BAROUD The Hamas-Fatah clash that has culminated into a mini-civil war in recent weeks is both old and […]

Democracy Defeated

  • June 22, 2007, 11:45 am
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/850/op13.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD All my forewarnings have suddenly been actualised, all at once: Gaza has descended into total and utter […]

War Foretold: Mark Twain and the Sins of Empire

  • June 13, 2007, 7:09 am
  • http://www.counterpunch.org/baroud06122007.html

By RAMZY BAROUD When I resorted to Mark Twain’s writings I attempted to escape, at least temporarily from my often […]

Losing Afghanistan: Firepower Doesn’t Always Win Wars

  • June 8, 2007, 8:07 pm
  • http://arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=97123&d=6&m=6&y=2007

By RAMZY BAROUD In a statement made available through the country’s Foreign Office, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khursheed Mahmood Kasuri chastised […]

For Boycott to Be Effective, an International Coalition Is Indispensable

  • June 1, 2007, 4:31 pm
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/re62.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD South Africa’s Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils whispered to me as I sat down following a most […]

Cape of Good Hope: One Apartheid Regime Down; One More to Go

  • May 24, 2007, 2:38 pm
  • http://arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=96530&d=23&m=5&y=2007

By RAMZY BAROUD I stand at the southernmost corner of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. The grand mountains underneath […]

From Palestine to Rotterdam: The Perfect PR Disaster

  • May 24, 2007, 2:28 pm
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/845/op5.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD In Rotterdam, Holland’s third largest city, thousands of Palestinians gathered on May 5 for the annual Palestinians […]

Darfur: The Hourglass of Blood

  • May 16, 2007, 9:15 am
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/844/op133.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD The Darfur crisis in Sudan is perhaps the most politically convoluted conflict in the world today. Its […]

Mismanaging Iraq: Stealing from the Poor and Giving to the Rich

  • April 27, 2007, 8:57 am
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/842/re54.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD Locating Dartmouth House, where Hans von Sponeck, former UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq was scheduled to speak […]

Freedom for Alan Johnston

  • April 18, 2007, 8:55 am
  • http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=95130&d=18&m=4&y=2007

By RAMZY BAROUD In Trafalgar Square in London, dozens of journalists representing every major news organisation descended on a designated […]

A Paradigm Shift: America as Proxy

  • April 13, 2007, 7:27 am
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By RAMZY BAROUD Conflicts in the Middle East are often orchestrated from afar, using proxies — the least risky method […]

Not an Intellectual Squabble

  • April 10, 2007, 5:59 am
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/re61.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD In a spacious yet fortified United Nations compound in Rome, members of a Palestine committee at the […]

War Anniversary: Israel, Palestine Links Absent

  • April 2, 2007, 5:42 am
  • http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/238455/cs/1/

By RAMZY BAROUD The Stockholm air was too cold, even for the most animated speaker to excite a crowd. But […]

The Arab Peace Initiative and the Changing Middle East

  • March 26, 2007, 9:27 am
  • http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=47799

By RAMZY BAROUD The rapid, almost hasty, developments on the Arab Israeli front, almost immediately following the Saudi sponsored Makkah […]

Articulating a Just Peace: Whose Responsibility?

  • March 20, 2007, 5:22 pm
  • http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-03200774009.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD [From a speech for Stockholm Conference 16-19 March 2007]  In my speech today, I will refrain from […]

Palestinians Must Redefine Struggle

  • March 13, 2007, 7:53 am
  • http://www.jordantimes.com/tue/opinion/opinion5.htm

By RAMZY BAROUD It’s never easy to admit that the Palestinian front, both at home and abroad, remains as fragmented […]

Losing Focus: Peace and Justice Movement in Britain at Crossroad

  • March 8, 2007, 9:54 am
  • http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4965/1/246/

By RAMZY BAROUD Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very familiar encounter: […]

A Democracy in Crisis: Who is Really in Control?

  • February 28, 2007, 11:00 am
  • http://www.counterpunch.org/baroud02272007.html

By RAMZY BAROUD Years back, an old and astute professor at the University of Washington ended a fascinating lecture to […]