Scott Ritter, America’s former top arms inspector in Iraq, has a neat phrase for Saddam’s regime. The “phantom threat”, he calls it.…
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, is the author of Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (London: André Deutsch, 1990). He holds numerous awards for journalism, including two Amnesty International UK Press Awards and seven British International Journalist of the Year awards. His other books include The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster (Andre Deutsch, 1975); In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-45 (Andre Deutsch, 1983); and The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East (4th Estate, 2005).
A few days ago, Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called upon the “conscience” of the American people to help the Palestinians.…
Noam Chomsky, one of America’s greatest philosophers and linguists, has become the target of Turkey’s chief of “terrorism prosecution”. Scarcely two months…
Taken to a remote corner of the world where they may be executed, where the laws of human rights are suspended. Sounds…
I watch these events with incredulity, not least because I was a witness to the Russian invasion and occupation. How they fought…