Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk’s World: Scars of the past reveal Britain's doomed empire in Hong Kong
By the time the British surrendered in 1941, thousands of civilians had been killed
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Robert Fisk's World: Hatchets and hostages – the old days of Mao's revolution
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Grey's experience is painfully similar to those of his later colleagues in Beirut
The Great War and words to remember
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Robert Fisk on Armistice Day: Poets and soldiers recorded the horror of the Great War in writing that has affected generations. But as English evolves in the digital age, will their powerful words soon stop making sense?
Free podcast download: The lost art of reportage
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Was there a golden age for international correspondents? Are current affairs now largely brought to us in dumbed down soundbites? Who now sets the framework for coverage of world events?
Robert Fisk's World: The German Lawrence of Arabia had much to live up to – and failed
Saturday, 7 November 2009
The victors write the history, so Frobenius's adventures are today virtually unknown
Robert Fisk: America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
As in Vietnam, Karzai is going to rule over an equally tiny island of corruption
Robert Fisk’s World: The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlines
Saturday, 31 October 2009
News bureau chiefs in Cairo know who their local spies are but can’t dismiss them
Robert Fisk’s World: Beirut's history can't be reduced to a mere 'heritage trail'
Saturday, 24 October 2009
The Romans were here. The Crusaders were here, and then the Muslims came
End of an era for Lebanon's free press
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Robert Fisk: Once a bastion of journalistic independence, Beirut's newspapers are losing their edge.
Robert Fisk’s World: You don't need colour to see the full bloody horror of war
Saturday, 17 October 2009
I took black-and-white pictures of the Bosnian war to bleed colour out of the world
Obama, man of peace? No, just a Nobel prize of a mistake
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Robert Fisk: The US president received an award in the faint hope that he will succeed in the future. That's how desperate the Middle East situation has become.
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