May 7, 2008
Beyond Media Revolutions: Is Arab Media Truly Free?
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com On February 12, 2008, Arab League information ministers issued a communique outlining 'tough' guidelines for Arab...
May 3, 2008
The Bomb Squads: How to Survive a Gaza Refugee Camp
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com The following are excerpts from Baroud's upcoming book, "101 Ways to Survive a Refugee Camp." We...
April 25, 2008
Mixed Priorities: Why Palestinian Unity is Not an Option
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com Just days after the Hamas-Fatah clash last June in Gaza, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looked...
April 19, 2008
The US Palestine-Israel Fairytale
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com A memorable quote in Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) still carries a wealth of relevance....
April 12, 2008
Basra Battles: Barely Half the Story
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com When it comes to Iraq, reporters appear intent on omitting or fabricating news....
April 6, 2008
No Checkpoints in Heaven
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com I still vividly remember my father's face - wrinkled, apprehensive, warm - as he last wished...
March 29, 2008
Where are the Iraqis in the Iraq War?
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com Five years after the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, mainstream media is once more making...
March 22, 2008
The Coming Uncertain War against Iran
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com When Admiral William J "Fox" Fallon was chosen to replace General John Abizaid as chief of...
March 15, 2008
Big Bang or Chaos: What's Israel Up To?
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com Why did Israel attack Gaza with such brutality? Did Israeli officials think, even for a fleeting...
March 13, 2008
The Palestine Chronicle Renews Its Call for Support: Help Preserve Truthful Media
Appeal from one of our authors Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com The Palestine Chronicle (www.palestinechronicle.com) continues to appeal to its friends, supporters...
March 9, 2008
'Unwavering Commitment' to Inequality
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com Death hovered over Gaza long before locally-made Palestinian rockets struck near the Israeli southern town of...
February 29, 2008
Abbas Needs a Miracle
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com Time is running out for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas....
February 26, 2008
Hizbollah and the 'Unknown Knowns'
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com We know well who killed the top Hezbollah commander, Imad Mugniyah on Feb 12th in Damascus....
February 17, 2008
US Elections: The Iraq Factor
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com As the race for the United States presidential nominations progresses, the stances of and attitudes towards...
February 10, 2008
Media Language and War: Manufacturing Convenient Realities
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com In the competitive world of media today, swift and conveniently selective reporting is of prime importance....
January 31, 2008
People’s Power in Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com In a radio interview prior to the US invasion of Iraq, David Barsamian asked Noam Chomsky...
January 26, 2008
The True Miracle of Israel
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com Israelis and their supporters tend to depict Israel as a country of miracles. What else could...
January 18, 2008
Guantanamo as a Symbol
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com 11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere...
January 13, 2008
US Elections: Just Like the Movies.
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com The United States political process bears an uncanny resemblance to mainstream filmmaking. Elections and speeches are...
January 8, 2008
The Iraq Charade
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com In recent months, we have been inundated by media reports bringing good news from Iraq, with...
December 30, 2007
Machiavellian Musharraf
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com The 42-day drama in Pakistan is far from over; the declaration of emergency and the lifting...
December 15, 2007
On Romney, Mormonism and Islam
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's speech on December 6th - in which he tried to 'explain'...
December 10, 2007
True Aim of Annapolis, and Why It Failed
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. The US-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland was neither a success nor failure, if one accepts...
December 1, 2007
Demoralisation and Absence
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) is author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006). A once profound and widely read commentator recently claimed he no longer writes about the Palestine/Israel conflict because "Palestinians are...
November 27, 2007
A Matter of Opinion
By Ramzy Baroud's (ramzybaroud.net) author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006). What do an organic farmer from Spain, a union worker activist from Brazil and a human rights scholar living in London...
November 14, 2007
Articulating the Unprintable: Ramzy Baroud Discusses Media Response to His Book
By June Rugh on Ramzy Baroud's (ramzybaroud.net) book The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006). Ramzy Baroud, veteran Palestinian-American journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the Palestine Chronicle, recently completed a speaking tour of the United...
November 10, 2007
Peace and Democracy must go Hand in Hand
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) is an author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle. After years of marked absence, the Bush administration has finally decided to upgrade its involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The announcement of a Middle East peace conference...
November 3, 2007
A Case for Arab Dignity
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) is an author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle. His work has been published in many newspapers and journals worldwide. His latest book is The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press,...
