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Ramzy Baroud

Articles

Opportunism Trumps in Palestine

  • August 25, 2007, 3:07 pm
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/859/op23.htm

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

  • August 17, 2007, 5:25 pm
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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?

  • August 11, 2007, 1:19 pm
  • http://arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=99481&d=8&m=8&y=2007

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

  • August 3, 2007, 1:58 pm
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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

  • July 27, 2007, 9:32 am
  • http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/855/re91.htm

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

  • July 20, 2007, 9:03 am
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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

  • 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
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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 […]