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Sputnik International
April 24, 2018
For instance, expert on the Middles East, Robert Fisk from The Independent, made a wonderful report on Syria, but, the same media certainly considered him a pro-government journalist. The problem is that no one else traveled there. Until proven otherwise, Robert Fisk's opinion inspires more respect thanÃâà...
Truthdig
April 24, 2018
Kolhatkar took special aim at veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, who was able to enter Douma and produce testimony by a Syrian doctor that undercut insurgent claims of a chemical attack. To counter Fisk's on-the-ground reporting, Kolhatkar cited an array of articles from The Guardian,Ãâà...
The Edge Markets MY
April 23, 2018
We're still waiting for their verdict, but in the meantime, what veteran British war correspondent Robert Fisk has uncovered so far is a stunning repudiation of the mainstream narrative. Fisk, an award-winning and highly respected journalist who has covered Middle East conflicts for four decades, hasÃâà...
Progressive.org
April 23, 2018
The column went on to briefly reference an article by journalist Robert Fisk, which was published by the Independent on April 17. Fisk's article raised doubts about whether the Syrian government had in fact used chemical weapons in the town of Douma, outside of Damascus. Erlich's article, published onÃâà...
Islam21c
April 22, 2018
Journalists like Robert Fisk, who had previously spoken out passionately for Palestine, have been accused of rummaging for excuses for the Assad regime. It should be noted that it was indeed Fisk who in 2005 criticised journalists for embedding themselves with Anglo-American forces during the Gulf War,Ãâà...
Consortium News
April 22, 2018
The possible role of the White Helmets in the latest alleged chemical attack was first revealed by veteran Middle East reporter Robert Fisk, writing for The Independent. In “The Search for Truth in the Rubble of Douma-And One Doctor's Doubts Over the Chemical Attacks,” Fisk reported that he tracked downÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 21, 2018
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” the old and oft-repeated aphorism goes. Well, in this age of unreason, we remember the past all right, but we're completely cavalier about repeating the mistakes of history. Learning lessons is for wimps in the new world order. A textbookÃâà...
Spectator USA
April 19, 2018
This is Robert Fisk. I know he's controversial and that he has made serious mistakes. Whatever else you say about Fisk, he has a massive record of reporting from Northern Ireland and the Middle East. He has won most prizes available to journalists including the Orwell Prize and the British Press Awards'Ãâà...
Truthdig
April 19, 2018
Many are citing Robert Fisk's reporting this week from Syria on a doctor who was not a witness to the attack and yet claimed that the dozens of Syrians who died were asphyxiated by dust rather than poisoned by chemicals. Fisk made no attempt to explain the many reports of a chemical smell and of whiteÃâà...
L'AntiDiplomatico
April 18, 2018
Il noto reporter di guerra britannico Robert Fisk, nel suo reportage da Douma, nei luoghi dove ci sarebbe stato l'attacco chimico, ha intervistato residenti e medici di Douma, ed emerge un quadro della situazione che smentisce tutta la narrativa menzognera del maistream e dei governi occidentali.
RT
April 18, 2018
Jaber's testimony is consistent with claims made by a Douma doctor who spoke with veteran UK journalist Robert Fisk. Although Dr. Assim Rahaibani did not personally witness what happened in the medical clinic, he said that “all the doctors” he works with “know what happened.” According to RahaibaniÃâà...
Ahval
April 18, 2018
On Monday evening, the sceptics, including Edinburgh University academic Tim Hayward , were quick to share a report by Robert Fisk, a veteran Middle East correspondent for the Independent who has published several reports on the Syrian war from a position embedded with regime troops. Fisk reportedÃâà...
Mintpress News
April 18, 2018
Robert Fisk's report for The Independent and the One America News segment constitute the first major international media reports from the location of the alleged chemical attack. But it will be interesting to see the extent to which international chemical and weapons experts either validate or refute theirÃâà...
AOL Travel UK
April 17, 2018
But he explained to Robert Fisk, writing for the Independent, that patients were overcome not by gas but by oxygen starvation in the rubbish-filled tunnels and basements in which they lived, on a night of wind and heavy shelling that stirred up a dust storm. Donald Trump and Theresa May seized on theÃâà...
Consortium News
April 17, 2018
A report by the Independent's veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk quotes doctors in Duma saying victims suffered from dust inhalation and that a member of the White Helmet caused panic by falsely shouting, “Gas!” The White Helmets were then bussed out with other jihadists, as CaitlinÃâà...
The Independent
April 17, 2018
This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, stinking place of smashed apartment blocks – and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western world's most powerful nations to bomb Syria last week. There's even a friendly doctor in a green coat who, when I trackÃâà...
RT
April 16, 2018
"The shameless, outrageous, covert military support which the United States – and Britain – gave to Saddam for more than a decade remains the one terrible story which our presidents and prime ministers do not want the world to remember," said Robert Fisk, correspondent for The Independent based inÃâà...
Middle East Eye
April 12, 2018
In his acclaimed book Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, veteran journalist Robert Fisk recounts the aftermath of Israel's unleashing of phosphorus shells upon West Beirut in the summer of 1982, when patients began arriving to Barbir hospital "still on fire". He quotes a doctor, Amal Shamaa, on the situation ofÃâà...
Consortium News
April 11, 2018
Robert Fisk of Britain's Independent newspaper was on site and reported what he saw first hand in stories titled Watching on as Islamist fighters are evacuated from war-torn Eastern Ghouta and Western howls of outrage over the Ghouta siege ring hollow. As reported at the Russian Reconciliation Centre,Ãâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
April 10, 2018
Robert Fisk was on site and reported what he saw first hand in stories titled Watching on as Islamist fighters are evacuated from war-torn Eastern Ghouta and Western howls of outrage over the Ghouta siege ring hollow. As reported at the Russian Reconciliation Centre, by the end of March, 105,857 civiliansÃâà...
The Herald
March 30, 2018
The SDF, or Syrian Democratic Force, is a US-constructed outfit, which, in journalist Robert Fisk's words, is neither Syrian (it's dominated by Kurds, including those of Turkish origin) nor democratic (since it imposes Kurdish rule over traditionally Arab areas and dances to a tune called by a foreign master).
Knack.be
March 28, 2018
Toen Turkse troepen twee maanden geleden een offensief in Afrin begonnen tegen de Koerdische militie YPG, had Robert Fisk als een van de weinige journalisten toegang tot het gebied. 'Ik was mee met het Syrische regeringsleger. Je kunt niet rechtstreeks via Koerdisch gebied naar Afrin, want het isÃâà...
The Independent
March 27, 2018
fisk-ghouta-main.jpg Sana el-Boukeri in a Syrian refugee camp. She lost her civilian husband and son in the Syrian and Russian bombardment of eastern Ghouta while her other son was wounded fighting in the Syrian government army on the other side of the front line Nelofer Pazira. They were frightenedÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 18, 2018
In 2012, Robert Fisk wrote about a 14-month-old Iraqi named Sayef who had a severely enlarged head, was blind, paralysed and unable to swallow. Noting that much blame for the rise in congenital birth defects in Fallujah had been directed at the United States' use of white phosphorus there, Fisk wasÃâà...
The McGill International Review
March 17, 2018
Not only does Assad remain in power and the Syrian government continue to exist, but as Robert Fisk, the Middle Eastern correspondent for the Independent writes, it appears that they are even experiencing some victories in the Civil War. Syria has recaptured Aleppo and continues to attack Islamist andÃâà...
RT
March 17, 2018
Next Robert Fisk will start a GoFundMe page for new anti-NATO hair plugs. Tankie self-parody keeps redefining itself. https://t.co/yuusjD7hDZ. — Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) March 8, 2018. Here is the tweet that Michael Weiss was promoting, which falsely stated that I received a nose job: Example ofÃâà...
The Times
March 11, 2018
And so Dunphy, the original host of Today FM's The Last Word, began podcasting long interviews with journalists such as Niall Stanage and Robert Fisk. “It's been evolving as I find out what works and doesn't work. I didn't do any advertising or any overt publicity for it. Calling it The Stand was probably aÃâà...
The Independent
March 8, 2018
There is a dreary inevitability to the way in which the most dreadful creatures turn up at Downing Street or Buckingham Palace. Archbishop Makarios, Jomo Kenyatta, Menachem Begin, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Robert Mugabe, Nicolae Ceaucescu and Vladimir Putin to name a few. Of theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 4, 2018
From Australian academic Tim Anderson, who's claimed that Bashar al-Assad has not been involved in mass killings of civilians and was simply demonised by the imperial West to British and US journalists Robert Fisk and Seymour Hersh who have claimed the regime did not use chemical weapons inÃâà...
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
March 2, 2018
Much to the surprise of Turks, the unexpected discovery of population registers on an online genealogy database three weeks ago was so overwhelming that the system crashed within hours, British journalist Robert Fisk writes in his article in The Independent reported. According to him, it turned out thatÃâà...
Public Radio of Armenia
March 2, 2018
Across the mountains of eastern Anatolia – and around the cities of Istanbul, Izmir, Erzurum, Van and Gaziantep and along the haunted death convoy routes to Syria, ancient ghosts climbed out of century-old graves to reassert their Armenian presence in Turkish history as the opening of population registersÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 1, 2018
“Ghouta will fall. That is the message. And when it falls, Idlib must surely be next. And then the Syrians must decide how to break the US-Kurdish hold on Raqqa”, clearly and succinctly, wrote Robert Fisk in 'The Independent'. Fisk did not forget to mention that Eastern Ghouta (Northeast and East ofÃâà...
The Independent
February 24, 2018
In regard to whether we should pay more for a longer transition period in our sluggish rush to Brexit, it's about time we told M Barnier and his mates to do one. Our craven politicians gave away a reported Ãâã40bn to get through phase one, which they had stated unequivocally that they wouldn't. That's ourÃâà...
Daily Sabah
January 31, 2018
What a pity for a long career of journalism to end with becoming a propaganda instrument for the PKK terrorist organization and its Syrian offshoot Democratic Union Party's (PYD) defamation campaign. I am talking about Robert Fisk's recent catastrophic piece for the Independent daily. The piece is aÃâà...
The Independent
January 26, 2018
It's below zero degrees on the vast dirt hillside above Totah but through the mist and freezing rain, I can see the Syrian general's target, a small Isis-held village across a valley of mud. There's a crash of artillery fire from his Shilka guns, and you wait several seconds before the shells fall behind a clump ofÃâà...
The Independent
January 4, 2018
Isn't the man in charge of the CIA's Iran operations taking a serious interest in the latest events in Iran? Surely he is. That's his job, isn't it? But why this silence? Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent; @indyvoices; Thursday 4 January 2018 10:30 GMTÃâà...
The Independent
January 4, 2018
Isn't the man in charge of the CIA's Iran operations taking a serious interest in the latest events in Iran? Surely he is. That's his job, isn't it? But why this silence? Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent; @indyvoices; Thursday 4 January 2018 10:30 GMTÃâà...
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
September 28, 2017
This panel discussion will begin with journalist Robert Fisk. Fisk is a British columnist and correspondent for The Independent and an outspoken proponent of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. He has written on this topic often in The Independent and in his book, The Great War for CivilisationÃâà...
ABC Online
August 30, 2017
When Robert was first posted to the Middle East his father told him to worry about snipers, not shells. It was sage advice from a soldier who had survived the First World War. Robert has lived in the same apartment in Beirut for more than 40 years, serving as the Middle East Correspondent for The Times andÃâà...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
There is a dreary inevitability to the way in which the most dreadful creatures turn up at Downing Street or Buckingham Palace. Archbishop Makarios, Jomo Kenyatta, Menachem Begin, Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Robert Mugabe, Nicolae Ceaucescu and Vladimir Putin to name a few. Of theÃâà...
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
Dear Bashar al-Assad Apologists,. Sorry to interrupt: I know you're very busy right now trying to convince yourselves, and the rest of us, that your hero couldn't possibly have used chemical weapons to kill up to 70 people in rebel-held Douma on April 7. Maybe Robert Fisk's mysterious doctor has it rightÃâà...
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