Robert Fisk How will we get over the Trump addiction?
The media circus that is the current administration will come to an end soon, and politics will go back to normal. But what will we do for entertainment?
The media circus that is the current administration will come to an end soon, and politics will go back to normal. But what will we do for entertainment?
How, for example, would you tweet the start of World War Two? Amid the abuse of social media, how would you convince readers that, yes, the Nazis really are about to invade Poland?
In Iraq 11 years ago, Justin Huggler broke the story in The Independent of a 19-year-old Iraqi civilian driven to his death in the Tigris River by five American soldiers. The semi-autobiographical book he wrote about a hero reporter in Iraq is an absolute cracker
If a democratically-elected dictator wants to act as a conduit in a neighbour’s civil war, what does he expect but massacres in his own major cities?
On arrival in his cell, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Fahmy discovered that he was imprisoned with men whom he had interviewed only a few months earlier as members of the Morsi government
When Samantha talked about ‘barbarism against civilians’ in Aleppo, I remembered climbing over the dead Palestinian civilians massacred at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut in 1982, slaughtered by Israel’s Lebanese militia friends while the Israeli army – Washington’s most powerful ally in the Middle East – watched
Our political masters are in league with the Syrian rebels, and for the same reason as the rebels kidnap their victims – money
The family of Nahed Hattar want an idependent investigation into his death, after the journalist was killed on the steps of the courthouse where he was due to stand trial for 'inciting Islam'. They were charges Mr Hattar rejected
We refer to them as ‘rebels’ – as if they were the Maquis fighting in the French resistance or Partisans freeing Yugoslavia from the Nazis or, indeed, the insurgents of Warsaw struggling for freedom from the German SS. Which they clearly are not
It is easy to say that the Arabs are appalled that an Islamophobe has won the White House. But did they think Obama or any of his predecessors – Democrat or Republican – had any special concern for Islam? Of course not
What does Trump actually do when these lands present a “threat” to the West? Dust off his anti-Muslim hatreds? Call up his mate Vladimir? Ask for an atlas?
One Syrian lieutenant described to me how he directed his artillery fire onto an Israeli jeep in the Jabhat al-Nusra occupied town of Al-Hamidiya inside Syria and destroyed it. The jeep might have been a gift or borrowed from Israel
The Entente Cordiale which sent my father to France is now trash beneath the high heels of Theresa May, yet this wretched woman dares to wear a poppy
The battle for the city has opened up, with fire arriving not only from the east but from south-west – where the al-Nusra Front and some of its Islamist allies still hold territory. But this isn't quite the storm of steel the world's media would have you believe
Was it sent in by NGOS from Britain? Was it brought in by one of those selfless men who tried to help the people of Syria and who then fell into the fatal hands of Isis murderers?
As the world rightly decries the savagery committed in eastern Aleppo, in the west of the city there is also suffering as 'rebel' shells rain down, writes Robert Fisk
For those in Mouadamiya there may be a semblance of peace after a long and bloody battle, but ex-fighters are doubtful areas such as Aleppo will see the same