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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 awarded for his work.


Truthdig Articles

2008

10/11 ‘Collateral Damage’ Not Much Different From Targeted Killing

09/29 Bush Favors Bankers Over Soldiers

09/22 Horrors of War Our Leaders Never Have to Confront

08/03 Syria Succeeds by Doing Nothing

07/18 Dramatic Return for the Living and the Dead

07/15 Educating the U.S. About the Middle East

07/03 Snapshots of Life and Death in Baghdad

06/16 The Middle East Never Tires of Threats

06/07 The West’s Weapon of Self-Delusion

05/11 Hezbollah Rules West Beirut in Iran’s Proxy War With America

04/11 Semantics Can’t Mask Bush’s Chicanery

03/19 The Only Lesson We Ever Learn Is That We Never Learn

02/29 The Gardens of the Devil

01/18 Bush’s Tragic Dream World

2007

11/29 Déjà Vu in Annapolis

10/15 Do You Know the Truth About Lockerbie?

10/08 Here We Go Again

10/01 A Lesson in Courage From Beirut

09/21 Lebanese Government on Verge of Collapse

08/30 Questioning 9/11 … With Caution

08/21 Looking Back at Lebanon

08/10 Lebanese Strike a Blow at U.S.-Backed Government

08/03 Expecting the Worst in Lebanon

07/19 Lawrence of Arabia Had it Right About Iraq

06/29 How Can Blair Possibly Be Given This Job?

06/22 Welcome to ‘Palestine’

               

               
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