Robert Fisk’s latest report from Syria is interesting insofar as the Independent has given it minimal prominence. A reflection of the report’s authenticity as much as the Independent’s own agenda?
Although formerly a rich town, Yabroud now looks like much of Syria. Trashed, gutted, fought over, rubbled.
The headline conveys an entirely different message to the article. We don’t think Fisk wrote the headline, his editors did. That tells us they want to persuade the public that something ‘must be done’ about Syria: i.e. military intervention
While presidents and prime ministers have lined up in Manhattan to mourn the dead at the World Trade Centre, not a single Western leader has dared to visit the dank and grubby Sabra and Chatila mass graves
Several radio presenters asked me yesterday if the unrest in Cairo and Benghazi may have been timed to “coincide with 9/11”. It simply never occurred to them to ask if the video-clip provocateurs had chosen their date-for-release to coincide with 9/11
Egypt’s military plays a shrewd game – insisting Mubarak go on trial while realigning supporters to preserve their privileges
The Arab Spring may be dead but the security establishment in Washington will be pleased. So, I suspect, will President Bashar al-Assad of Syria
A health warning, writes Robert Fisk, to all Arab readers of this column: you may not like this week’s rant from yours truly
A 2010 study said increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in Fallujah exceeded those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Part II of Robert Fisk’s report from Fallujah a decade after it was ‘liberated’ by U.S. forces
As usual, the journos have got into bed with the military to create a madman rather than a murderous soldier. Off his head. Didn’t know what he was doing. No wonder he was whisked out of Afghanistan at such speed
Why does Britain’s forign minister fail to acknowlege that there already is another Middle East “nation” that has, in fact, several hundred nuclear weapons along with the missiles to fire them?