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  • USA Bars Robert Fisk From Entering Country
    25 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    USA Bars Robert Fisk From Entering Country
    by Doug Ireland September 23, 2005
    The internationally renowned correspodent for The Independent the great British journalist Robert Fisk has been banned from entering the United States. Fisk has been covering war zones for decades, but is above all known for his incisive reporting from the Middle East for more than 20 years. His critical coverage of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, and the continuing occupation that has followed it, has (…)

  • Obama has to pay for eight years of Bush’s delusions
    11 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    How is Barack Obama going to repair the titanic damage which his vicious, lying predecessor has perpetrated around the globe and within the US itself?
    He will have to get out of Iraq, and he will have to tell Israel a few home truths
    Saturday, 8 November 2008
    American lawyers defending six Algerians before a habeas corpus hearing in Washington this week learned some very odd things about US intelligence after 9/11. From among the millions of "raw" reports from American (…)

  • Robert Fisk: Even I question the ’truth’ about 9/11 (video)
    27 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    Each time I lecture abroad on the Middle East, there is always someone in the audience – just one – whom I call the "raver". Apologies here to all the men and women who come to my talks with bright and pertinent questions – often quite humbling ones for me as a journalist – and which show that they understand the Middle East tragedy a lot better than the journalists who report it. But the "raver" is real. He has turned up in corporeal form in Stockholm and in Oxford, in Sao (…)

  • IRAQ : It Is The Death of History by Robert Fisk
    18 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Monday, September 17, 2007 by The Independent/UK
    It Is The Death of History
    by Robert Fisk
    2,000-year-old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers. The very walls of the mighty Ur of the Chaldees cracking under the strain of massive troop movements, the privatisation of looting as landlords buy up the remaining sites of ancient Mesopotamia to strip them of their artefacts and wealth. The near total destruction of Iraq’s historic past - the very cradle of human (…)

  • Robert Fisk: Welcome to ’Palestine’
    20 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Robert Fisk: Welcome to ’Palestine’ Published: 16 June 2007
    How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are. First, we demand that the Palestinians embrace democracy and then they elect the wrong party - Hamas - and then Hamas wins a mini-civil war and presides over the Gaza Strip. And we Westerners still want to negotiate with the discredited President, Mahmoud Abbas. Today "Palestine" - and let’s keep those quotation marks in place - has two prime ministers. Welcome to the Middle (…)

  • Welcome to ‘Palestine’ by Robert Fisk
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, June 16, 2007 by The Independent/UK Welcome to ‘Palestine’ by Robert Fisk
    How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are. First, we demand that the Palestinians embrace democracy and then they elect the wrong party - Hamas - and then Hamas wins a mini-civil war and presides over the Gaza Strip. And we Westerners still want to negotiate with the discredited President, Mahmoud Abbas. Today “Palestine” - and let’s keep those quotation marks in place - has two prime (…)

  • Full video of Saddam Hussein execution - Robert Fisk: He takes his secrets to the grave. Our complicity dies with him
    2 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How the West armed Saddam, fed him intelligence on his ’enemies’, equipped him for atrocities - and then made sure he wouldn’t squeal
    by Robert Fisk
    We’ve shut him up. The moment Saddam’s hooded executioner pulled the lever of the trapdoor in Baghdad yesterday morning, Washington’s secrets were safe. The shameless, outrageous, covert military support which the United States - and Britain - gave to Saddam for more than a decade remains the one terrible story which our presidents and prime (…)

  • Robert Fisk: American and Muslim: six million people in search of an identity
    5 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seattle businessmen, students, Miami housewives... Well, what did I expect, asks Robert Fisk at the Chicago Muslim convention
    by Robert Fisk
    A guy with brown eyes and dark skin and a thick American accent walks up to talk to me. I guess he’s an Iranian, possibly a Pakistani. Where’re you from, I ask? "Austin, Texas," he replies. Fisk foiled again. But where do you originally come from I ask him? "I was born in Newark, New Jersey." Fisk clears his throat.
    Where does his family (…)

  • Untold story of the massacre of Marjayoun leaves blame on both sides of the border
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    There are few marks on the road where the missiles hit the innocents of Marjayoun. But there are the memories of what happened immediately after the Israeli airstrike on the convoy of 3,000 people after dark on 11 August: a 16-year old Christian girl screaming "I want my Daddy" as her father’s mutilated body lay a few metres away from her; the town mukhtar discovering that his wife, Collette, had been decapitated by one of the Israeli missiles; the Lebanese Red Cross (…)

  • In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    de Robert Fisk
    In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. But it was a sign of the times that President Bashar al-Assad was able to bring the great and the good of Damascus to their feet by the simple token of telling the truth - which no other Arab leader has chosen to do these past five weeks: that the Lebanese Hizbollah guerrilla army has, in effect, won this round of their war with Israel.
    There was plenty of hyperbole in the Assad speech. (…)