- June 8, 2026
Articles
Peace Conference is New Case for War
By RAMZY BAROUD The Middle East peace conference proposed by the Bush administration is clearly a smokescreen, aimed at concealing […]
Policing Truth: The Debate on Palestine, Israel
By RAMZY BAROUD The last time I spoke publicly in the United States before my current tour was nearly four […]
Burma is Not Iraq
By RAMZY BAROUD The 2003 invasion of Iraq has enabled two important realisations. First, that imperial powers act only to […]
Haider Abdul-Shafi: Passing Undefeated
By RAMZY BAROUD The recent death of Haider Abdul-Shafi could not have come at a worse time. Bearing in mind […]
Lebanon and Syria: The Politics of Assassination
By RAMZY BAROUD The assassination of Lebanese politician Antoine Ghanem on September 19 is likely to be used, predictably, to […]
Convenient Racism: The ‘Us’, ‘Them’ and ‘Non’ Factors
By RAMZY BAROUD Racism is, among many things, convenient. It provides simplified, definite and ready-to-serve answers to complex and compounded […]
September 11: Relevant Questions
By RAMZY BAROUD Osama bin Laden has once again managed to occupy the stage and to insist on his relevance […]
The Shiite Power Struggle: Hardly Good News for US in Iraq
By RAMZY BAROUD The decision made by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to halt his Mahdi Army’s attacks on occupation forces […]
US Arabs and Muslims: The Search for Common Identity
By RAMZY BAROUD As the security check line began moving slowly at Washington Dulles airport, one passenger standing a few […]
Opportunism Trumps in Palestine
By RAMZY BAROUD The rash and self-defeatist behaviour emanating from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his close circle in […]
Managing Consent: The Art of War, Democracy and Public Relations
By RAMZY BAROUD It is Edward Bernays who fine-tuned the art of public relations in the 20th century. Using many […]
A Palestinian Miracle at the UN?
By RAMZY BAROUD For 62 years since the foundation of the United Nations’ Security Council, the Palestinians did not manage […]
Alberto Gonzales and Coup Against Democracy
By RAMZY BAROUD The name of Alberto Gonzales is rapidly becoming synonymous with all that has gone wrong under the […]
Bush’s Real Agenda in Palestine
By RAMZY BAROUD The Hamas government crackdown on Mohamed Dahlan’s corrupt security forces and affiliated gangs in the Gaza Strip […]
Bush’s War Policy: When Time Heals Nothing
By RAMZY BAROUD The news of recent weeks emanating from Washington and Baghdad point to one clear, if not final, […]
The Alternative Media: Free Speech is Still Possible
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
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
By RAMZY BAROUD The Hamas-Fatah clash that has culminated into a mini-civil war in recent weeks is both old and […]
Democracy Defeated
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
By RAMZY BAROUD When I resorted to Mark Twain’s writings I attempted to escape, at least temporarily from my often […]
