Ramzy Baroud

Reporting the Middle East: Please Go Back to the Streets

Posted by Ramzy Baroud | Jun 4, 2014 | Middle East, Viewpoints |

Now that sham democratic elections are bringing dictators back to power and intellectuals proven no more than lackeys, it is time to go back to the streets.

Libya: Haftar Leads A Coup

Posted by Ramzy Baroud | May 29, 2014 | Africa, News & Analysis |

Haftar has been pursuing a similar media discourse to that of Egypt’s Sisi, who seized power after overthrowing the democratically elected government.

66 Year Nakba: I Saw Yafa, Land of Oranges

Posted by Ramzy Baroud | May 23, 2014 | Palestine, Viewpoints |

It is somud—steadfastness—that keeps the millions of refugees holding on to their right of return 66 years after the land of orange trees was conquered.

What the Media Is Not Telling Us about Yemen: The Bloody War that Doesn’t Exist

Posted by Ramzy Baroud | May 16, 2014 | Africa, News & Analysis, US |

There is only one Yemen and one Yemeni story: that of war, western intervention, corruption, division, unemployment, terror, poverty and revolution.

Navigating Syria: The Impossible, Indispensable Mission

Posted by Ramzy Baroud | May 7, 2014 | Middle East, Palestine, Viewpoints |

Syria belongs to its people. You either stand on their side, or the side of the oppressor.

Palestinian Unity: Hope and Gloom in the Beach Refugee Camp

Posted by Ramzy Baroud | May 2, 2014 | News & Analysis, Palestine |

Scenes in Gaza tell of much hope and rejoicing about the Palestinian unity agreement, but it is a repeated scene of past agreements that have failed.

Martin Indyk’s Galloping Horse: Moral Crisis at Heart of Obama’s ‘Peace Process’

Posted by Ramzy Baroud | Apr 25, 2014 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |

To understand how thoughtless the US latest ‘peace process’ drive has been, one only needs to consider some of the characters involved in this political theater.