Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk: When propaganda turns out to be fact
Saturday, 19 July 2008
What happens when myths turn out to be true? I'm talking about the "myth" of the German army's atrocities in little Belgium in 1914, the raped nuns and the babies spitted on Prussian bayonets. "Hun barbarism" was the powerful propaganda tool to send the British Tommies and the French poilus – literally, "the hairy ones" – off to the killing fields of the Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele and Verdun. But now, thanks to the analytical, brilliant, horrifying work of Alan Kramer, a history professor at my own alma mater of Trinity College, Dublin, it all turns out to be – well, let's speak frankly – true.
Theatrical return for the living and the dead
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Robert Fisk: This was the final chapter of Israel's folly and Hizbollah's hubris.
Robert Fisk: Day of jackals as Paris marks the overthrow of a monarch
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
The Caliph of Damascus celebrated the overthrow of the French king yesterday. Bashar al-Assad looked quite at home, standing in his pale blue suit, wearing those inevitable Baathist sunglasses, occasionally clapping the precision drill of the French regiments in front of him, some of whom spent decades repressing Arab nations.
Robert Fisk: 'Europe has a duty to educate the US about Middle East'
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Walid Moallem leans forward in the armchair of the Paris Intercontinental Opera. "It's all on the record," he snaps. It usually is. The Syrians can be up- front when you least expect it. Syria's Foreign Minister is one of their top negotiators, a man who knows Israel's diplomats almost as well as they know themselves, who understands all the traps of the Middle East.
Robert Fisk: A lesson from across the Atlantic
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Canadians don't want to be the 'melting pot' that the US boasts
Robert Fisk: Thank you, readers, for these gems
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Why, I find myself asking when I read them, can't we journalists write like this?
Robert Fisk: Today's despot is tomorrow's statesman
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Millions believe Bashar al-Assad plotted murder. Now France is honouring him
Robert Fisk: Snapshots of life in Baghdad
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
The dangerous face of ordinary life has been captured by Iraqis on their mobile phones – reaching the places Western photographers can no longer go. Robert Fisk reports
Robert Fisk: The Middle East never tires of threats
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Governments love warnings, hence the endless waffle about the 'war on terror'
Robert Fisk: The West's weapon of self-delusion
Saturday, 7 June 2008
There are gun battles in Beirut – and America thinks things are going fine
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