First, it was Secretary of State Colin Powell who announced a Middle East peace conference. That was back in the spring –…
The Americans take them shackled and hooded on to transport aircraft to Kandahar. They live in pens of eight or 10 men.…
In North Carolina last month, a woman attending a lecture I was giving asked me when America would go to war in…
Time was when Bali would have been the story of the year, the most violent act in 12 months, to be recalled…
It is him. The man on the tape is Bin Laden. He is alive. It took only a brief flurry of phone…
Robert Fisk, currently Middle East correspondent for the British daily the Independent, has covered wars the old-fashioned way for 30 years, from…
“A clean shot” was The Washington Post’s revolting description of the murder of the al-Qa’ida leaders in Yemen by a US “Predator”…
Thank God, I often say, for the Israeli press. For where else will you find the sort of courageous condemnation of Israel’s…
Each day now, someone says something even more incredible – even more unimaginable – about President Bush’s obsession with war. Yesterday, George…
So George Bush Jnr is now an expert on the League of Nations, is he? Across America, he’s been telling the folks…
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