Robert Fisk

The comic books of the 1950s used stunning artwork and casual racism to lionise British war heroes

Robert Fisk: Battlefield stereotypes that were fed to young minds

In the late 1950s, my father would drop by Reynolds paper shop in Maidstone High Street to buy pipe tobacco for himself and comics for me.

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The storming of Drogheda by Oliver Cromwell and his troops in 1649

Robert Fisk: Even the little dog was not spared by Cromwell

Saturday, 21 August 2010

To Saint Canice's, then, in the ancient city of Kilkenny, its ninth-century round tower still watching for Viking invaders, home of the forgotten Gaelic Irish-Old English Confederation, its citizens spared by Cromwell.

Some of the last US combat soldiers to leave Iraq race for the Kuwaiti border. Around 50,000 troops will stay in the country to train the Iraqi army

The Iraq legacy: Torture. Civil war. Corruption

Friday, 20 August 2010

Robert Fisk: Combat troops have gone, but US has certainly left its mark

Vita Sackville-West, a poet rather than a poetess

Robert Fisk: Our language has a way of turning women into men

Saturday, 14 August 2010

Gender politics

Tsuyuko Nakao, 92, praying for the victims of the atom bomb at the Peace Memorial Park yesterday

An apology fatally devalued by the passage of 65 years

Saturday, 7 August 2010

Robert Fisk reports on the day that America and Britain united with Japan to remember victims of Hiroshima.

An Israeli army bulldozer takes a tree from the same spot yesterday

UN: Israel was on its own side before border clash

Thursday, 5 August 2010

Robert Fisk: So was the tree inside Israel? The UN implies that the shrubbery that ultimately cost the lives of five men on Tuesday was on the Israeli side of the "Blue Line"

Israeli soldiers use a crane as they cut a tree on the border near the village of Adaisseh

Israel-Lebanon tension after skirmish leaves four dead

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Robert Fisk: Can a tree start a Middle East war? It almost did on the Israeli-Lebanese border yesterday.

The ruins of an Iranian caravanserai

Robert Fisk: We should mourn these desert staging posts

Saturday, 24 July 2010

So what, readers, is a "caravanserai"? In Persian (or Dari), it is "karvansara", in Turkish, "keravandaray" – yes, from which we get our "caravan" – and it is an inn (or "pub" as we might call it) and I am inspired this week to praise the "caravanserai" because it is where we all met in the age before steamships and aircraft. Buddhist, Jew, Muslim, Christian, we would all meet there.

King Abdullah II of Jordan, who has been criticised by ex-army nationalists who condemn his support for US policy

The Palestinian invasion

Thursday, 22 July 2010

Robert Fisk on fears that Israeli plans for the West Bank – and US policy – could destroy the country

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