Robert Fisk

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Robert Fisk is an award-winning Middle East correspondent for the Independent. A journalist with decades of experience in foreign reporting, Fisk has interviewed Osama bin Laden multiple times and has been repeatedly recognized and...

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Bush’s Tragic Dream World

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jan 18, 2008 As a bomb exploded in Beirut and Israel killed 19 people in Gaza raids, President Bush took his Middle East peace mission to Saudi Arabia (and signed off on a $20-billion arms deal with the repressive Saudi regime), a calamitous juxtaposition of events that wasn't lost on Robert Fisk, even if it escaped Bush's notice. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Déjà Vu in Annapolis

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Nov 30, 2007 Haven't we been here before? Isn't Annapolis just a repeat of the White House lawn and the Oslo agreement, a series of pious claims and promises in which two weak men, Messrs. Abbas and Olmert, even use the same words of Oslo. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Do You Know the Truth About Lockerbie?

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 16, 2007 I'm not at all certain that the CIA did not have a scam drugs heist on board and I am not at all sure that the diminutive Libyan agent Megrahi -- ultimately convicted on the evidence of the memory of a Maltese tailor -- really arranged to plant the bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Here We Go Again

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 8, 2007 A sprig of bougainvillea prompts Robert Fisk to recall the bad old days of the Cold War and, in light of our overblown global war on terror, the curious and often fruitless tendency of governments to create monsters. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

A Lesson in Courage From Beirut

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 2, 2007 Not only is The Independent reporter Fisk, like many others in Beirut, no longer shocked by a murder of yet another member of parliament, but he also is no longer affected by viewing the remains of the dead. Such is life in Lebanon today. Here, Fisk relates how Lebanese officials are learning to exist in a perpetual fog of fear. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Lebanese Government on Verge of Collapse

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Sep 22, 2007 Another member of Lebanon's parliament, Antoine Ghanem, was killed on Sept 19 when a bomb went off in his car outside his home in Beirut This means, The Independent's Robert Fisk reports, that " It only takes one more murder for the democratically elected government of Lebanon to fall". Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Questioning 9/11 … With Caution

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Aug 30, 2007 Since the terrorist attacks on the US, many prominent journalists have repeatedly been asked the same questions, as The Independent's Robert Fisk describes in this piece: "Why, if you believe you're a free journalist, don't you report what you really know about 9/11? Why don't you reveal the secrets behind 9/11?" Here, Fisk carefully poses some questions of his own -- after addressing a familiar figure he calls the "raver". Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Looking Back at Lebanon

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Aug 22, 2007 The conflict in Lebanon ended a year ago last week. The Independent's Robert Fisk reflects on the human misery and destruction inflicted on the country -- and on how lucky he is to be alive after more than 30 years of reporting from some of the most dangerous places in the world. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Lebanese Strike a Blow at U.S.-Backed Government

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Aug 11, 2007 True, the US may be able to "spread democracy" to other nations throughout the world, but, as The Independent's Robert Fisk points out, that doesn't mean that the U can control how those nations exercise their democratic rights Take Lebanon, for example, where, Fisk wryly notes, "The Arabs have, once more, followed democracy and voted for the wrong man". Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Expecting the Worst in Lebanon

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Aug 4, 2007 The seasoned Mideast reporter for the British paper The Independent returns home to his flat in Beirut to find his landlord reinforcing his building with an iron door. After considering the state of affairs in Lebanon -- not to mention in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Gaza -- Fisk gets behind his landlord's security plan. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Lawrence of Arabia Had it Right About Iraq

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jul 19, 2007 Nearly 80 years ago, Lt Col Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, composed a prescient Encyclopedia Britannica entry for the term guerrilla, which foreign correspondent Robert Fisk calls "a chilling read because it contains so ghastly a message to the American armies in Iraq" This article originally appeared in Britain's The Independent . Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

How Can Blair Possibly Be Given This Job?

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jun 30, 2007 Tony Blair has moved out of 10 Downing Street and is moving on to a position as Britain's Middle East envoy -- which strikes reporter Robert Fisk as astonishing news, since, as he puts it in this article from Britain's The Independent, Blair "is a politician who has failed in everything he has ever tried to do in the Middle East." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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