USA Bars Robert Fisk From Entering Country
By : Solve et Coagula - Saturday April 25, 2009 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 (...)
read more, comments... Obama has to pay for eight years of Bush’s delusions
By : Robert Fisk - Tuesday November 11, 2008 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 (...)
read more, comments... Robert Fisk: Even I question the ’truth’ about 9/11 (video)
By : Robert Fisk - Thursday September 27, 2007 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 (...)
read more, comments... IRAQ : It Is The Death of History by Robert Fisk
By : Joelle - Tuesday September 18, 2007 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 (...)
read more, comments... Robert Fisk: Welcome to ’Palestine’
By : Harry - Wednesday June 20, 2007 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 (...)
read more, comments... Welcome to ‘Palestine’ by Robert Fisk
By : Emily - Saturday June 16, 2007 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 (...)
read more, comments... Full video of Saddam Hussein execution - Robert Fisk: He takes his secrets to the grave. Our complicity dies with him
By : Robert Fisk - Tuesday January 2, 2007 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 (...)
read more, comments... Robert Fisk: American and Muslim: six million people in search of an identity
By : Robert Fisk - Tuesday September 5, 2006 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 (...)
read more, comments... Untold story of the massacre of Marjayoun leaves blame on both sides of the border
By : Robert Fisk - Wednesday August 23, 2006 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 (...)
read more, comments... In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
By : Robert Fisk - Tuesday August 22, 2006 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. A (...)
read more, comments... The army is back, but don’t expect it to disarm Hizbollah
By : robert FISK - Friday August 18, 2006 The army is back, but don’t expect it to disarm Hizbollah Robert Fisk - The Independent August 18, 2006 Now you see them, now you don’t. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed the Litani river yesterday, their officers made it perfectly clear that it would not be the army’s job to disarm the Hizbollah. Nor was anyone in Lebanon surprised. After all, most of the Lebanese troops here are (...)
read more, comments... In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth
By : robert FISK - Thursday August 17, 2006 In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth Robert Fisk - The Independent August 16, 2006 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 (...)
read more, comments... As the 6am ceasefire takes effect... the real war begins
By : Robert Fisk - Tuesday August 15, 2006 by Robert Fisk The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe - and Israel may believe - that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the beginning of the end of the latest dirty war in Lebanon after up to 1,000 Lebanese civilians and more than 30 Israeli civilians have been killed. But the reality is quite different and will suffer no such self-delusion: the Israeli army, reeling under the Hizbollah’s onslaught of the past 24 hours, is now facing (...)
read more, comments... Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure
By : robert FISK - Tuesday August 15, 2006 Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure Robert Fisk - The Independent August 15, 2006 They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa - or what was once the village of Srifa - is a place of pancaked homes, blasted walls, rubble, starving cats and trapped corpses. But it is also a place of victory for the Hizbollah, whose fighters walked amid the destruction yesterday with the air of conquering heroes. So who is to blame for this desert? The Shia militia which provoked (...)
read more, comments... As the 6am ceasefire takes effect... the real war begins
By : robert FISK - Monday August 14, 2006 As the 6am ceasefire takes effect... the real war begins Robert Fisk - The Independent August 14, 2006 The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe - and Israel may believe - that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the beginning of the end of the latest dirty war in Lebanon after up to 1,000 Lebanese civilians and more than 30 Israeli civilians have been killed. But the reality is quite different and will suffer no such self-delusion: the (...)
read more, comments... LENANON : Crocodile tears of leaders as city burns By Robert FISK
By : Emily BIRNBAUM - Wednesday August 9, 2006 Crocodile tears of leaders as city burns By Robert Fisk 08/08/06 "The Independent" — -- Shortly after 4am, the fly-like buzz of an Israeli drone came out of the sky over my home. Coded MK by the manufacturers, Lebanese mothers have sought to lessen their children’s fears of this ominous creature by transliterating it as "Um Kamel", the Mother of Kamel. It is looking for targets and at night, like all the massacres being perpetrated by the Israeli air force across southern (...)
read more, comments... Robert Fisk: A Nato-led force would be in Israel’s interests, but not Lebanon’s
By : Robert Fisk - Sunday August 6, 2006 by Robert Fisk Every foreign army - including the Israelis - comes to grief in Lebanon. So, how come George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara - after their inevitable disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq - believe that a Nato-led force is going to survive on the south Lebanese border? The Israelis would obviously enjoy watching its deployment - it will be time for the West to take the casualties - but Hizbollah is likely to view its arrival as a proxy Israeli army. It is, after all, (...)
read more, comments... Robert Fisk Thinks there will be another 9/11
By : Lord Cerne Abbas - Saturday August 5, 2006 And all across the Muslim world, "we" - the West, America, Israel - are fighting not nationalists but Islamists. And watching the martyrdom of Lebanon this week - its slaughtered children in Qana packed into plastic bags until the bags ran out and their corpses had to be wrapped in carpets - a terrible and daunting thought occurs to me, day by day. That there will be another 9/11. http://news.independent.co.uk/world... The same things occured to me when Israel started bombing Lebanon, Mr (...)
read more, comments... The Truth Of British Premier’s "Urgent Diplomacy"
By : Robert Fisk - Saturday July 29, 2006 The Truth Of British Premier’s "Urgent Diplomacy" Robert Fisk, The Independent Saturday, 29, July, 2006 I dropped by the hospital in Marjayoun this week to find a young girl lying in a hospital bed, swathed in bandages, her beauty scarred forever by some familiar wounds; the telltale dark-red holes in her skin made by cluster bombs, the weapon we used in Iraq to such lethal effect and which the Israelis are now using to punish the civilians of southern Lebanon. And, of course, it (...)
read more, comments... Smoke Signals from the Battle of Bint Jbeil By Robert FISK
By : JOHAN - Friday July 28, 2006 Smoke Signals from the Battle of Bint Jbeil By ROBERT FISK Qlaya, Southern Lebanon Is it possible - is it conceivable - that Israel is losing its war in Lebanon? From this hill village in the south of the country, I am watching the clouds of brown and black smoke rising from its latest disaster in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil: up to 13 Israeli soldiers dead, and others surrounded, after a devastating ambush by Hizbollah guerrillas in what was supposed to be a successful Israeli (...)
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