Stories by Robert Fisk
Arab states have launched a secret plan with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading.
Posted on Oct 6, 2009, Source: Independent UK
Lebanon's new government of "national salvation" will be run by an ex-army general-president with ever-increasing powers.
Posted on Jun 8, 2009, Source: Independent UK
179,000 dead Iraqis? Or closer to a million? The British never cared about the Iraqis. That's why we don't know the figure. That's why we left Basra.
Posted on May 1, 2009, Source: Independent UK
Tom Hurndall was a "human shield," the kind we journalists made fun of in Iraq. Instead of mocking him we should have listened to him.
Posted on Apr 2, 2009, Source: Independent UK
Authorities say Mohamed al-Dainy planned a deadly suicide bombing. His allies say he's a fighter for human rights. But nobody knows where he is.
Posted on Mar 20, 2009, Source: Independent UK
Obama's message about 'a new way forward based on mutual interest and respect' did not address the Gaza bloodbath.
Posted on Jan 22, 2009, Source: Independent UK
Israel is ignoring the lessons of history by banning the press from the areas it is bombing.
Posted on Jan 5, 2009, Source: Independent UK
Quite a lot of the dead this weekend appear to have been Hamas members, but what is it supposed to solve?
Posted on Dec 30, 2008, Source: Independent UK
The brutal torture and killing of prisoners in Afghanistan is a routine of history.
Posted on Nov 19, 2008, Source: Independent UK
Iraqi papers obtained by The Independent state that Abu Nidal was "colluding" with the U.S.
Posted on Oct 25, 2008, Source: Independent UK
Hundreds of "insurgents" have been executed since 2003, victims of the same summary justice they mete out to their own captives.
Posted on Oct 8, 2008, Source: Independent UK
To claim the U.S. can achieve now what the British couldn't in the 19th century and the Russians couldn't at the end of the 20th is pure fantasy.
Posted on Sep 22, 2008, Source: Independent UK
The dangerous face of ordinary life has been captured by Iraqis on their cell phones.
Posted on Jun 19, 2008, Source: Independent UK
Recently the head of the CIA claimed it was winning the battle. Nonsense, argues Robert Fisk. The extremists in the Middle East are growing stronger.
Posted on Jun 2, 2008, Source: Independent UK
An account of the most widespread campaign of self-liquidation in human history.
Posted on Mar 20, 2008, Source: The Independent UK
For centuries, torture has been used to make people say anything the torturer wants.
Posted on Feb 4, 2008, Source: The Independent UK
Is this how lame-duck American presidents are supposed to behave?
Posted on Jan 26, 2008, Source: Independent UK
Armies of looters have destroyed much of what remains of Mesopotamia's storied past.
Posted on Sep 17, 2007, Source: Independent UK
Forget the conspiracy theories. Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk just wants a few questions answered.
Posted on Sep 4, 2007, Source: Truthdig
According to Washington's Strategic Class, those pesky Iraqis don't deserve our sacrifice, because their elected leaders aren't doing what we want them to do.
Posted on Aug 23, 2007, Source: Independent UK
Hamas is the democratically elected government of the Palestinian territories -- now that it has taken control of the Gaza Strip from the Fatah party, will Israel and the West keep supporting the old regime?
Posted on Jun 18, 2007, Source: The Independent
Ehud Olmert is under intense pressure to step down after a blistering report on his leadership during the "Second Lebanon War."
Posted on May 4, 2007, Source: Independent UK
Revealed: a new counter-insurgency strategy to carve up the city into sealed areas. The tactic failed in Vietnam. So what chance does it have in Iraq?
Posted on Apr 12, 2007, Source: The Independent
For the first time, Sunni insurgents disclose their conditions for ceasefire in Iraq. The ball is now in Bush's court.
Posted on Feb 10, 2007, Source: The Independent UK
Hussein's execution will be remembered as a case of America destroying an Arab leader who no longer obeyed his orders from Washington.
Posted on Dec 30, 2006, Source: The Independent UK
