Robert Fisk: John McCarthy knows the value of history
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
How come people like historical memory holes?
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
How come people like historical memory holes?
07 February 2012 12:00 AM
Look east and what does Bashar see? Iran standing with him and Iraq refusing to impose sanctions
04 February 2012 12:00 AM
Same Old Story. Journalists shouldn't use the phrase, but what else can I say when I prowl through press reports? Take the following. "It is slowly dawning... that the Americans are really going home, that there will be a ceasefire in this country soon, and then a march to the US... planes." Iraq? Nope. Afghanistan? You'd be so lucky.
04 February 2012 12:00 AM
After invading Iraq over weapons of mass destruction, we plan to clap as Israel bombs Iran
01 February 2012 12:00 AM
Bashar al-Assad is clinging to power despite the slow growth of a civil war. But if the regime should survive, what sort of country will it rule?
28 January 2012 12:00 AM
The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an "invented people" – courtesy of Newt Gingrich – but the only Arabs on the Mediterranean not to enjoy a Spring or an Awakening or even a Winter.
25 January 2012 12:00 AM
The Ayatollah ordered the entire nuclear project to be closed down because it was the work of the devil
21 January 2012 12:00 AM
The photographs and journal entries of the young activist Tom Hurndall – who was killed at the age of 21 by a sniper – are a visceral portrait of the conflict in the Middle East, says Robert Fisk
21 January 2012 12:00 AM
There are statements on the Bismarck, although contemporary reports got the story wrong
17 January 2012 12:00 AM
Building collapse highlights rental laws which have left Beirut's poorest tenants living in danger
14 January 2012 12:00 AM
Thank goodness we don't have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while.
13 January 2012 12:00 AM
11 January 2012 12:00 AM
It was the Assad Speech of the Year. There was an international conspiracy against Syria. True. Arab states opposed to Syria were under "outside pressure". True, up to a point. Nobody could deny the seriousness of these plots. True. After all, the Syrian government itself registers 2,000 dead soldiers, while the UN estimates civilian dead at 5,000. And when Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan warned that the violence in Syria was "heading towards a sectarian, religious war", there were few supporters of President Assad who would disagree with him.
07 January 2012 12:00 AM
More horror arrives in the mail.