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Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy Baroud has been writing about the Middle East for over 20 years. He is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author of several books and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His books include ‘Searching Jenin’, ‘The Second Palestinian Intifada’ and his latest ‘My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story’. His website is: www.ramzybaroud.net.

Praying for Freedom: Why Is Israel Silencing the Call for Prayer in Jerusalem?

by Rowan Wolf November 19, 2016

November 19, 2016 6 minutes read

Ramzy Baroud, PhD Politics for the People s I was growing up, I was…

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The War on UNESCO: Al-Aqsa Mosque is Palestinian and East Jerusalem is Illegally Occupied

by Rowan Wolf October 27, 2016

October 27, 2016 7 minutes read

[Photo: Mateo Renzi (2013) by Sailko] Ramzy Baroud, PhD Politics for the People id…

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The Many ‘Truths’ on Syria: How Our Rivalry Has Destroyed a Country

by Rowan Wolf October 24, 2016

October 24, 2016 8 minutes read

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The Convoluted Discourse: Was The Women’s Boat to Gaza an Existential Threat?

by Rowan Wolf October 16, 2016

October 16, 2016 7 minutes read

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Israel’s Nuclear Man: Shimon Peres, A Brand without Substance

by Rowan Wolf October 13, 2016

October 13, 2016 7 minutes read

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MUST WATCH VIDEO: The calm before the storm in Ukraine (with Col. Douglas Macgregor) →

A distinguished military officer and an honest thinker that commands attention, Col. Douglas Macgregor is an example of rectitude to fellow officers and above all a patriot who is trying to avoid a global catastrophe by speaking the truth. Read more…
Violence, Revolution, and Structural Change in Latin America (Revised and expanded) →

JOHN GERASSI—Che Guevara had no illusions about what this will mean in Latin America. He wrote: “The present moment may or may not be the proper one for starting the struggle, but we cannot harbor any illusions, we have no right to do so, that freedom can be obtained without fighting. And these battles shall not be mere street fights with stones against tear-gas bombs, nor pacific general strikes; neither will they be those of a furious people destroying in two or three days the repressive superstructure of the ruling oligarchies. The struggle will be long, harsh, and its battlefronts will be the guerrilla’s refuge, the cities, the homes of the fighters–where the repressive forces will go seeking easy victims among their families–among the massacred rural populations, in the villages or in cities destroyed by the bombardments of the enemy.” Read more…
Some Historical Excerpts About How the U.S. Government Took Ukraine →

ERIC ZUESSE (quoting): "All of those facts and more are known to the world as is the plain and simple fact that the regime in Kiev is nothing more than an installed puppet show organized by the West and in no way representing the Ukrainian people. The names and actors behind the coup are also no secret, as is the fact that the Right Sector is nothing but a gang of ruthless, lawless, nazi thugs yet there is no outcry, there is no backing off by western politicians who continue to support the lawless nazi killers and the western media continue marching in lock step aiding and abetting in what has become truly one of the single greatest disgraces for Washington and the western world." Read more…
John Pilger: The US is Escalating War Tensions With China in Desperate Bid to Maintain Global Power →

EDITOR—In an interview with Finian Cunningham, internationally renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger says America is driving war against China, not out of strength but rather a fear of losing its erstwhile sole superpower position. The driving forces are multiple: the United States' sense of itself as a diminishing global power; the destructive militarism of US capitalism and its "Merchants of Death"; deep-seated historical racism towards China; and an anachronistic American notion of "divine right" to dominate the rest of the globe. John Pilger warns that if the US does not come to terms with the reality of a multipolar world and the genuine equality of nations (as it professes) then armed conflict with China is on the cards. Read more…
Brian Berletic Demolishes U.S. AP & PBS-TV Anti-Russia Lies →

ERIC ZUESSE—Probably nothing has damaged Vladimir Putin’s international reputation more than the alleged war crimes that Russia’s forces allegedly perpetrated against civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha during the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But now (as will here be proven) we know that it was all lies; it didn’t happen the way that U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media say it did. Nothing like that, at all. Read more…
The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime — and Our New Live, Prime-Time Rumble Program →

GLENN GREENWALD—This is the regime of censorship whose tentacles grow each month and whose power expands inexorably. Like all censors, the consortium that controls and funds this regime recognizes that whoever controls the flow of information will wield unchallenged power, and that few powers are more potent and tyrannical than the ability to relegate one's critics to the most distant fringes or to silence them altogether. Read more…
Germany’s position in America’s New World Order →

MICHAEL HUDSON—By “autocracy,” Biden means countries resisting this financialization and privatization takeover. In practice, U.S. rhettoric means promoting its own economic growth and living standards, keeping finance and banking as public utilities. What basically is at issue is whether economies will be planned by banking centers to create financial wealth – by privatizing basic infrastructure, public utilities and social services such as health care into monopolies – or by raising living standards and prosperity by keeping banking and money creation, public health, education, transportation and communications in public hands. Read more…
Finian Cunningham Interview: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy →

FINIAN CUNNINGHAM—The politicians do the bidding of the ruling class to serve their economic and political interests. This condition of permanent entrenched power accounts for why policies change little from one administration to another, whether Democrat or Republican. That’s why foreign policies change little, if at all. The unspoken foreign policy of the US is to serve the imperialist interests of its ruling class (Wall Street banks, commodity multinationals, overseas investors) and to maximize militarism for the financial benefit of the big and ancillary corporations that comprise the military-industrial complex. Read more…
Political Indoctrination →

LARRY ROMANOFF—Here’s another American, this one with a kind heart. He is tolerant and counsels patience. I like this guy. “We need to recognize that our ideology is not for everybody. The Chinese are still evolving upward, and without an educated society, US-style democracy will not work.” Now we know. The Chinese cannot adopt democracy because they are still primitive, having only just taken their first baby steps from apehood to Americanism. Those who reject our system do not do so because it’s unsuitable, dysfunctional and corrupt, but because they aren’t sufficiently educated. Read more…
The ‘War of Terror’ may be about to hit Europe →

PEPE ESCOBAR—The imperial modus operandi against geopolitical and geoeconomic competitors remains the same: an avalanche of sanctions, embargos, economic blockades, protectionist measures, cancel culture, a military uptick in neighboring nations, and assorted threats. But most of all, warmongering rhetoric – currently elevated to fever pitch.

The hegemon may be “transparent” at least in this domain because it still controls a massive international network of institutions, financial bodies, politicos, CEOs, propaganda agencies and the pop culture industry. Hence this supposed invulnerability breeding insolence.
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On Going Seriously Boom →

FRED REED—Where does water come from in New York? I don’t know, but it doesn’t flow spontaneously to the thirtieth floor. It needs to be pumped, which involves electricity, from wherever it comes from to wherever it has to go. No electricity, no pump. No pump, no water. And no flushing of toilets. River water could be drunk, of course. Think of the crowds. Read more…
Beware of Nuclear False Flag Blaming Russia →

EDITOR: We have been saying this for some weeks now, we even put it on our homepage. The chances remain high (for reasons well explained in this article) that the Empire of Chaos and Lies, which lacks any honor or decency, may try a tactical nuke on some important target in Ukraine, Poland or any other nation or region designated by "the West" as part of their domain. The idea—just like they just did with the Nord Stream attacks—is then to shamelessly blame Russia. The West can get away with such things because it retains overwhelming superiority in the area of global disinformation, "soft power", and because despite the erosion of credibility of the West's official narrative in its own sphere, the majority of the captive populations are still confused enough to remain passive and go along with the rulers' schemes. Read more…
Can the Big Lie Save the Sinking Western Kakistocracy? →

PATRICE GREANVILLE—The ruling billionaires—whimsical, petulantly childish, and poorly-educated—unidimensional characters like most businessmen, along with their legions of cowardly, sycophantic advisers and political front men, have no solutions. How could they? For one thing, this mob is still trying to balance a pyramid on its apex. Flash Alert: This is not in the pyramid's nature. They constantly seek cures to capitalist symptoms using the capitalist playbook. Read more…
Thailand: US-backed Opposition’s Violence Intimidates Critics, Paves Way for Regime Change →

BRIAN BERLETIC—The US-backed opposition in Thailand replicates in many ways the violence and intimidation the US sponsored in Ukraine from 2014 onward - just as Ukraine is meant as a proxy against Russia - a US client regime in Thailand would transform the country into a proxy against China. An alarming incident of violence where a Thai opposition leader publicly assaulted his critic is dangerously being portrayed as "heroic" by Western-sponsored opposition media to encourage further violence and intimidation - creating the same division and destruction throughout Thai society that is currently consuming Ukraine. Read more…
The Most Powerful Weapon The West Gave Ukraine is Not the HIMARS, it’s the US Propaganda Machine. →

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The time to turn away from the trajectory toward nuclear war is now, not later. It’s bizarre how many people I get telling me “Well if nuclear war happens it’ll be Putin’s fault,” like that will be any comfort to them as they hug their family close and wait for a horrific death. There’s just so much sloppy thinking about the actual end of the world. People aren’t looking directly at this thing and thinking rigorously about what it would mean. What it would entail. This is understandable; it’s a terrible thing to contemplate. But we do urgently need to. Read more…
The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the British State Broadcaster Serves the Powerful →

ALAN MACLEOD—The death of Queen Elizabeth II, where the BBC dropped programming to run endless, wall-to-wall coverage, has underlined the fact to many Britons that the network is far from impartial, but the voice of the state. The BBC website draped itself in black, printing stories such as “Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The moment history stops,” while BBC News presenter Clive Myrie explicitly dismissed the cost of living and energy crisis wracking the country as “insignificant” compared to the news. Read more…
The U.S. Is Leading the World Into the Abyss →

EDWARD J CURTIN—A friend of mine, who is constantly charging me with having turned right-wing because of my writing that accuses many traditional liberal/leftists of buying the national security state’s propaganda on the JFK assassination, “9/11,” Syria, Ukraine, Covid-19, censorship, the “New” Cold War, etc., and whose go-to news sources are The Guardian, CNN, The New York Times, NPR, ABC, seems oblivious to the fact that right and left have become useless terms and that these media are all mouthpieces for the CIA and their intelligence allies in the new Cold War; that the so-called right and left are joined at the hip with their obsession with Pax Americana. Read more…
Crimea bridge terrorism and other provocations: Russia responds calmly and methodically →

PATRICE GREANVILLE—As we could reliably predict, the Western media are self-righteously denouncing Moscow and rending their garments in an orgy of hypocrisy over what they frame as an act of "depraved terror". Unfortunately, the hundreds of millions in the captive audience have nowhere to turn (or know how) to find out the truth and the proper historical context for the Ukraine war, the first thing the Western media suppressed even before the war formally began last February. It must be noted that this sudden "rain of missiles" is virtually inexplicable if we follow Western media reports. Read more…