Rules of War Weren’t Made for Only One People

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Feb 15, 2009 The organized persecution of a group is despicable whether the victims are the Jews of World War II or today's Gazans. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

When Did We Stop Caring About Civilian Deaths During Wartime?

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Feb 1, 2009 I wonder if we are "normalizing" war. It's not just that Israel has yet again gotten away with the killing of hundreds of children in Gaza. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Leave World War II Out of Gaza

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jan 17, 2009 I have long raged against any comparisons with the Second World War -- whether of the Arafat-is-Hitler variety once deployed by Menachem Begin or of the anti-war- demonstrators-are- 1930s-appeasers, most recently used by George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Time to Stop the Mideast Comparisons

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jan 11, 2009 It all depends where you live. That was the geography of Israel's propaganda, designed to demonstrate that we softies -- we little baby-coddling liberals living in our secure Western homes -- don't realize the horror of 12 (now 20) Israeli deaths in 10 years and thousands of rockets and the unimaginable trauma and stress of living near Gaza. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Afghanistan in Crisis

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Nov 30, 2008 The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands -- all but a square mile at the centre of the city --and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Making Movies the Afghan Way

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Nov 24, 2008 Incredibly, as Afghanistan sinks back into the anarchy which became its natural state these past 29 years, Afghan film-makers are producing movies of international quality, turning out pictures which prove -- even amid war -- that a country's tragedy can be imaginatively recreated for its people. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

No End to the Savagery in Afghanistan

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Nov 16, 2008 Back in Afghanistan, the mind turns to the small matter of savagery. Not the routine cruelty of war, but the deliberate inhumanity with which we behave. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Paying for Eight Years of Bush’s Delusions

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Nov 9, 2008 How is Barack Obama going to repair the titanic damage which his vicious, lying predecessor has perpetrated around the globe and within the U.S. itself? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Ancient Words Our Leaders Should Heed

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 19, 2008 Let us now praise famous men. And after yet another U.S. presidential candidates' debate of awesome sterility I'm referring principally to one of the first journalists to understand war and, so far as he could, to check his sources: Thucydides. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

‘Collateral Damage’ Not Much Different From Targeted Killing

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 11, 2008 When U.S. troops massacre Iraqi civilians in Haditha because their buddy has been murdered, what is the difference between their revenge and that of Saddam? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Bush Favors Bankers Over Soldiers

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Sep 30, 2008 By grotesque mischance, $700 billion -- the cost of George Bush's Wall Street rescue plan -- is about the same figure the president has squandered on his preposterous war in Iraq, the war we have now apparently "won" thanks to the "surge." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Horrors of War Our Leaders Never Have to Confront

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Sep 23, 2008 I'm not sure of this, but I think -- I suspect and feel -- that the Great War, the war of 1914-1918, is beginning to dominate our lives even more than the terrible and infinitely more costly conflict of 1939-1945. The Second World War may haunt our lives. The First World War, it seems to me, imprisons us all. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )