Ramzy Baroud

The real reason for Trump’s angry diplomacy on North Korea

Ramzy Baroud | Monday 16 October 2017
To understand US strategy in the Pacific, and against North Korea in particular, one has to understand the fundamental changes under way in that region. China’s clout as an Asian superpower and a global economic giant has been growing fast. America’...
85 words that destroyed the Palestinian dream

Ramzy Baroud | Monday 9 October 2017
Some promises are made and kept, others disavowed. The Balfour Declaration, a promise made 100 years ago by the British Foreign Secretary to Jewish leaders in Britain, was honored only in part. A state for the Jewish people was indeed established,...
How BDS shows the way to a ‘South Africa moment’

Ramzy Baroud | Monday 2 October 2017
BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, was the outcome of several events that shaped the Palestinian national struggle and international solidarity with the Palestinian people after the second intifada in 2000. Today, it is growing...
Spot the difference: Trump and Obama, in their own words

Ramzy Baroud | Monday 25 September 2017
The nature of the rhetoric in Donald Trump’s first speech at the UN General Assembly was largely predictable. Even his bizarre threat to “totally destroy North Korea” was consistent with his overall style and previous warnings. But how...
Netanyahu’s devious campaign to sit at the world’s top table

Ramzy Baroud | Monday 18 September 2017
There is a great irony in Israel seeking a seat on the UN Security Council. Since its establishment amid the ruins of Palestinian cities and villages in 1948, Israel has had the most precarious relationship with the world’s largest international...
Big oil, failed democracy and the world’s shame in Myanmar

Ramzy Baroud | Monday 11 September 2017
Aung San Suu Kyi, the “great humanitarian,” seems to have run out of integrity as the UN finally confirms that what is happening to the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar is ethnic cleansing. Suu Kyi has not even had the moral courage to utter a few...
Yes, Daesh is dying, but don’t celebrate just yet

Ramzy Baroud | Monday 28 August 2017
Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has finally been snatched back from Daesh after months of merciless bombardment by the US-led coalition, and a massive ground war. But “victory” is hardly the term to describe...
There is no such thing as an acceptable nuclear weapon

Ramzy Baroud | Tuesday 22 August 2017
At Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor not far from Seattle, Washington, there are eight 560ft-long black submarines carrying the largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons in the US. “If it were a sovereign nation,” Rick Anderson wrote in the Los...
Al-Araqeeb village: Palestinian Bedouins refuse to surrender 116 times

Ramzy Baroud | Tuesday 15 August 2017
On Aug. 1, the Palestinian Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb was destroyed for the 116th time. As soon as Israeli bulldozers finished their ugly deed and soldiers began evacuating the premises, village residents immediately began rebuilding their homes...
Another attempt to appease the Israeli government

Ramzy Baroud | Friday 11 August 2017
The US government is declaring war on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Since 2014, 11 US states have enacted legislation to criminalize the movement, which uses non-violent means to put pressure on Israel to end its...