Robert Fisk

This author's articles

• The Independent
  

  It is the death of history

  Monday September 17th, 2007
• The Independent
  

  Iraqi insurgents offer peace in return for US concessions

  Friday February 9th, 2007
• The Independent
  

  World ignores signs of civil war in Lebanon

  Saturday January 27th, 2007
• The Independent
  

  We’ve all been veiled from the truth

  Saturday October 21st, 2006
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  The Age of Terror

  Sunday October 8th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  The US military and its cult of cruelty

  Saturday September 16th, 2006
• Democracy Now!
  

  Lebanon: "The Ceasefire Can’t Work"

  Wednesday September 6th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth

  Wednesday August 16th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure

  Tuesday August 15th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  As the 6am ceasefire takes effect... the real war begins

  Monday August 14th, 2006
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Tea and rockets: cafe society, Beirut-style

  Sunday August 13th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Hizbollah’s iron discipline is match for military machine

  Friday August 11th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  What do you say to a man whose family is buried under the rubble?

  Wednesday August 9th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Israel’s promise of humanitarian corridors is exposed as a sham

  Wednesday August 9th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Crocodile tears of leaders as city burns

  Tuesday August 8th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  This draft shows who is running America’s policy... Israel

  Monday August 7th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  A Nato-led force would be in Israel’s interests, but not Lebanon’s

  Tuesday August 1st, 2006
• The Independent
  

  ’How can we stand by and allow this to go on?’

  Monday July 31st, 2006
• Democracy Now!
  

  Will Al-Zarqawi’s Death Fuel the Insurgency or Diminish It?

  Thursday June 8th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Iraq: The face of the enemy

  Tuesday June 6th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  On the shocking truth about the American occupation of Iraq

  Saturday June 3rd, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Vision of an imaginary memory lane

  Saturday June 3rd, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Modern Syria through Saladin’s eyes

  Saturday May 27th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  You’re talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador

  Saturday May 20th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  The long shadow of the United States

  Saturday May 13th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  A policeman’s lot is not a happy one

  Saturday May 6th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Beating about the Bush? Not with Hersh

  Saturday April 29th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Seen through a Syrian lens, ’unknown Americans’ are provoking civil war in Iraq

  Friday April 28th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  United States of Israel?

  Thursday April 27th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  All change in the Temple of Truth

  Saturday April 22nd, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Traitors, martyrs or just brave men?

  Saturday April 15th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Silent for too long, the witnesses to evil

  Saturday April 8th, 2006
• Democracy Now!
  

  Robert Fisk on Iraq, Palestine and the Failure of the U.S. Corporate Media to Challenge Authority

  Friday April 7th, 2006
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Another brick in the wall

  Sunday April 2nd, 2006
• The Independent
  

  A lesson from the Holocaust for us all

  Saturday April 1st, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Lessons from the ghosts of Gallipoli

  Saturday March 25th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  The Iraq War: Three Years On - The march of folly, that has led to a bloodbath

  Monday March 20th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  The farcical end of the American dream

  Saturday March 18th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Algerian under a death sentence fights deportation

  Wednesday March 15th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  The erosion of free speech

  Saturday March 11th, 2006
• The World Today
  

  Fisk paints a Middle East in crisis

  Monday March 6th, 2006
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Lebanese put pressure on pro-Syrian President

  Sunday March 5th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Dead heroes and living memories

  Saturday March 4th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Setback for inquiry into Hariri assassination

  Friday March 3rd, 2006
• Lateline
  

  Robert Fisk shares his Middle East knowledge

  Thursday March 2nd, 2006
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Defeat is victory. Death is life

  Sunday February 26th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Is the problem weather, or is it war?

  Saturday February 25th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  By such little things is a man betrayed

  Saturday February 11th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  The Fury

  Monday February 6th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Don’t be fooled, this isn’t an issue of Islam versus secularism

  Saturday February 4th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  The problem with democracy

  Saturday January 28th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  My challenge for Steven Spielberg

  Saturday January 21st, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Osama bin Laden: Is it him? Almost certainly.

  Friday January 20th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Ariel Sharon...

  Friday January 6th, 2006
• The Independent
  

  Review of the year: Robert Fisk on war without end

  Friday December 30th, 2005
• Los Angeles Times
  

  Telling it like it isn’t

  Tuesday December 27th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Another truly brave man dies in Lebanon

  Saturday December 17th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  A fearfully light coffin is carried to a Beirut grave. Who will be next?

  Thursday December 15th, 2005
• Democracy Now!
  

  Robert Fisk on The Murders of Gibran Tueni, Rafik Hariri and the Changing Tide in Lebanon

  Wednesday December 14th, 2005
• Democracy Now!
  

  The Iraq Invasion: Day 1,000

  Wednesday December 14th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  In Lebanon, the men do the dying, and the women do the mourning

  Wednesday December 14th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Despite floods of soldiers, assassinations still continue. No one is safe in Lebanon

  Tuesday December 13th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Some buried bones are best left undug

  Saturday December 10th, 2005
• rabble.ca
  

  Fisk: War is the total failure of the human spirit

  Tuesday December 6th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  America slowly confronts the truth

  Saturday December 3rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  No wonder al-Jazeera was a target

  Saturday November 26th, 2005
• ZNet
  

  War for Civilization

  Monday November 21st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The betrayed mothers of America

  Saturday November 19th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Torture’s out. Now they call it abuse

  Saturday November 12th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  King has more friends in West than at home

  Friday November 11th, 2005
• Democracy Now!
  

  Robert Fisk on Torture: "We Have Become the Criminals...We Have No Further Moral Cause to Fight For"

  Wednesday November 9th, 2005
• Democracy Now!
  

  The Roots of Civil Unrest in Europe: Robert Fisk and Behzad Yaghmaian on Post-Colonial Muslim and Arab Immigrants

  Wednesday November 9th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  A poet on the run in Fortress Europe

  Saturday November 5th, 2005
• New Statesman
  

  Twisting Gulf arms

  Monday October 31st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  All over the globe, our leaders seem to be suffering from a severe bout of infantilism

  Saturday October 29th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The real story behind those rumours that the Americans banned me from the US

  Saturday October 22nd, 2005
• Democracy Now!
  

  War is the "Total Failure of the Human Spirit"

  Thursday October 20th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  On tour with my ghosts

  Sunday October 16th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The Ghazi Kenaan I knew was not the sort of man who would commit suicide

  Thursday October 13th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Who did you shoot in the war, daddy?

  Friday October 7th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The victims of war, a conflict of interest and the story of Staff Sergeant Nolde

  Thursday October 6th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The choirs of Kandahar

  Wednesday October 5th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  When I tasted fear

  Tuesday October 4th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  How the world was duped: the race to invade Iraq

  Monday October 3rd, 2005
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Shock and awe: the night Baghdad burned

  Sunday October 2nd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Face to face with the world’s most wanted man

  Saturday October 1st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  When nature and man conspire to expose the lies of the powerful, the truth will out

  Saturday September 24th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  We have long ago lost our moral compass, so how can we lecture the Islamic world?

  Saturday September 17th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Why is it that we and America wish civil war on Iraq?

  Thursday September 15th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  They told Andrea that Chris had not suffered. Death seems to have followed me this year

  Saturday September 3rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  In Iraq, a man-made disaster

  Thursday September 1st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  How easily we have come to take the bombs and the deaths in Iraq for granted

  Saturday August 27th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  People torn to pieces, relatives scream - another week in the theme park of death

  Sunday August 21st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  What does democracy really mean in the Middle East? Whatever the West decides

  Saturday August 20th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The Shia shopkeeper growing rich on Saddam

  Friday August 19th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Shias are the targets as bombs bring carnage to bus station

  Thursday August 18th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Secrets of the morgue: Baghdad’s body count

  Wednesday August 17th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  No more bottles of Lebanese red for the diners of Baghdad

  Tuesday August 16th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Iraqis extend deadline for new constitution

  Tuesday August 16th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  A constitution that means nothing to ordinary Iraqis

  Monday August 15th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  How can the US ever win, when Iraqi children die like this?

  Saturday August 13th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Ten minutes on a trip to the supermarket can mean the difference between life and death

  Friday August 12th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Death Of A King

  Tuesday August 2nd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The dangerous dichotomy between some Muslims and the society around them

  Saturday July 23rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The Museum of Palestine: Keys to the past

  Wednesday July 20th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Farewell, Ane-Karine, adventurous envoy and friend to all the Middle East

  Saturday July 16th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Lebanon’s deputy PM survives assassination attempt

  Wednesday July 13th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The reality of this barbaric bombing

  Friday July 8th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  We should have listened to Bin Laden

  Saturday July 2nd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Amid the horrors of the Middle East, it is strange to hear about this European ’crisis’

  Saturday June 25th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  We shelter behind the myth that progress is being made

  Thursday June 23rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Anti-Syrian politician latest to die as murder takes hold in Lebanon

  Wednesday June 22nd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Lebanon wounded by personal ambition

  Tuesday June 21st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  General’s return casts doubt on Lebanon’s future

  Monday June 20th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  We are all complicit in these vile acts of torture - but what can we do about it?

  Saturday June 18th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  UN team opens inquiry into Hariri murder

  Saturday June 18th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Saddam interrogation screened - in silence. The question is: Why?

  Tuesday June 14th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Pro-Syrian general routs Lebanese opposition

  Tuesday June 14th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Syria: out the door, back through the window

  Monday June 13th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The thousands of bodies I’ve seen prove that death is just a heartbeat away

  Saturday June 11th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Business as usual in Assad’s ’revived’ Baathist cabinet

  Wednesday June 8th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Assad under fire as exiled uncle signals wish to return to Syria

  Sunday June 5th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Why Ridley Scott’s story of the Crusades struck such a chord in a Lebanese cinema

  Saturday June 4th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Syria’s troops have gone. So who killed Samir, Lebanon’s fearless journalist?

  Friday June 3rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Son of murdered Hariri heads for poll win

  Monday May 30th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Civil war casts a sinister shadow on Lebanon’s election

  Saturday May 28th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Protesters beaten as Egypt votes on electoral reform

  Thursday May 26th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  A typically Lebanese story of betrayal at the hands of so-called civilised nations

  Saturday May 21st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Saddam handed blame for Iraq’s eight-year war with Iran

  Saturday May 21st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Let us rebel against poisonous academics and their preposterous claptrap of exclusion

  Saturday May 14th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  America’s shame, two years on from ’Mission Accomplished’

  Sunday May 8th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  General who fled Lebanon in pyjamas returns to try to rally his supporters

  Sunday May 8th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  In Middle Eastern elections, no one bats an eyelid when the leader gets 110 per cent of the vote

  Saturday April 30th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Lebanon’s hollow victory

  Wednesday April 27th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  How Arabic text of WMD dossier was massaged by Downing St

  Sunday April 24th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  I may not be sure about God or the Devil, but I still believe in the United Nations

  Saturday April 23rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The 5-Minute Briefing: What next for Lebanon?

  Saturday April 23rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Our presidents and prime ministers are poseurs. Where are the Great Men of today?

  Saturday April 16th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Lebanon delays its election despite US demands

  Thursday April 14th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  At last, it is time to commemorate the end of one Middle East conflict

  Saturday April 9th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The US forces, like the Crusaders before them, are prisoners in their own fortresses

  Saturday April 2nd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Further signs of Lebanon’s political decay in wake of Hariri killing

  Thursday March 31st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  When weeping for religious martyrs leads to the crucifixion of innocents

  Saturday March 26th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The impact of the Iraq war is now being felt across Middle East

  Monday March 21st, 2005
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Beirut car bomb fuels rumours of Syrian plot

  Sunday March 20th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Memories of war, fear and friendship in my home city, where time has stood still

  Saturday March 19th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Security chief ’sues himself’ to clear name over Hariri

  Friday March 18th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The mystery of Mr Lebanon’s murder

  Thursday March 17th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Murder of Mr Lebanon continues to poison political air

  Wednesday March 16th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The people make a stand over the lies of Lebanon

  Tuesday March 15th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  UN finds evidence of official cover-up in Hariri assassination

  Monday March 14th, 2005
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  What the Lebanese fear most is not Syria’s army but a power vacuum

  Sunday March 13th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  In the Middle East, those who are about to die believe profoundly in the afterlife

  Saturday March 12th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Syria reasserts power in Lebanon as its ally returns as prime minister

  Friday March 11th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Half a million gather for pro-Syrian rally to defy vision of US

  Wednesday March 9th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Beirut: An historic day in the life of my city

  Tuesday March 8th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Is Lebanon walking into another nightmare?

  Monday March 7th, 2005
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  US rebuffs Assad offer to pull out of Lebanon

  Sunday March 6th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  After what I’ve been through, it’s no wonder I have a fear of flying

  Saturday March 5th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Still Iraq’s civil servants go to work, and still they go on dying

  Thursday March 3rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Lebanese are united under flag of the ’cedars revolution’

  Wednesday March 2nd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Grass always covers graves, but the seas reveal the secrets of human folly

  Saturday February 19th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  In death, Hariri unites the Lebanese against Syria

  Thursday February 17th, 2005
• Democracy Now!
  

  Robert Fisk on the Beirut Bombing, U.S.-Syrian Relations and the Iraqi Elections

  Wednesday February 16th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  US recalls Damascus envoy as blame for Beirut assassination falls upon Syria

  Wednesday February 16th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The killing of ’Mr Lebanon’: Rafik Hariri assassinated in Beirut bomb blast

  Tuesday February 15th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Israeli spies, Syrian obsession and a peace that had to break

  Tuesday February 15th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The irresistible romance of a steam train scarred with the bullet holes of battle

  Saturday February 12th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  There will be no Middle East peace without justice

  Wednesday February 9th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  The sins of our fathers, the folly of man and the art of documenting history

  Saturday February 5th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Baghdad, the city that dreams of death

  Thursday February 3rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  ’Freed’ Iraqis still waiting for the wind of change

  Tuesday February 1st, 2005
• Democracy Now!
  

  Robert Fisk on Iraq Elections: Iraqis Voting for "Freedom From Foreign Occupation"

  Monday January 31st, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Amid tragedy, defiance

  Monday January 31st, 2005
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Cheering ’democracy’ as the Iraqis still die

  Sunday January 30th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  One man’s belief in the triumph of good over evil should give us all hope

  Saturday January 29th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  This election will change the world. But not in the way the Americans imagined

  Saturday January 29th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Hotel journalism gives American troops a free hand as the press shelters indoors

  Monday January 17th, 2005
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Not even Saddam could achieve the divisions this election will bring

  Sunday January 16th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  How a flying carpet took me back in time - until I landed in Baghdad

  Saturday January 15th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  ’They put a hood on me, tied my hands and took me to Camp Fallujah’

  Friday January 14th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  We won’t go home and we won’t vote, say refugees of Fallujah

  Thursday January 13th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Fear stalks city where the police hide behind masks

  Wednesday January 12th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Deputy of Baghdad police assassinated in car with his son

  Tuesday January 11th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  A routine tale of our times: abuse, beatings, imprisonment and injustice

  Saturday January 8th, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Suddenly, there is debate in Beirut: how can Syria keep Lebanon while condemning Israel?

  Friday January 7th, 2005
• Democracy Now!
  

  The Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities: Robert Fisk Looks Back at 2004

  Monday January 3rd, 2005
• The Independent
  

  Iraq: In this mire of death, lies and atrocities, we glimpse the ghost of Vietnam

  Monday December 27th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  ’The Army had not a word of compassion for the dead man, nor for his orphaned sons’

  Sunday December 19th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Who killed Baha Mousa?

  Wednesday December 15th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  What price innocence in the anarchy of Iraq?

  Wednesday November 17th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Death, delusion and democracy

  Sunday November 14th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  In Egypt, it was as if Arafat was as dangerous in death as in life

  Saturday November 13th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The dreamer who relied on emotion and failed to protect his own people

  Friday November 12th, 2004
• Democracy Now!
  

  Robert Fisk: "Bin Laden’s Vote is For George Bush"

  Monday November 1st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Suicide bomber kills five in attack on Baghdad restaurant

  Monday November 1st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The truth is that Yasser Arafat died years ago

  Saturday October 30th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Kidnapped

  Wednesday October 20th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Future generations will struggle to escape the legacy of the disaster in Iraq

  Monday October 11th, 2004
• Democracy Now!
  

  Robert Fisk on the Presidential Debate, Iraq, Palestine and the International Criminal Court

  Friday October 1st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Dramatic plea from al-Qa’ida suspect

  Saturday September 25th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The worse the situation in Iraq, the bigger the lies that Tony Blair tells us

  Saturday September 25th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  We should not have allowed 19 murderers to change our world

  Saturday September 11th, 2004
• Democracy Now!
  

  As Sadr Calls Off Truce In Najaf, We Speak With Robert Fisk On How Iraq Is About to Explode

  Friday August 6th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Saddam’s cameraman is still haunted by images of war

  Thursday August 5th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  ’Can’t Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can’t Bush?’

  Sunday August 1st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Protection, not oppression: How the new mobile police patrols have discovered job satisfaction

  Friday July 30th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Iraqi recruits bombed as 100 die in day of bloodshed

  Thursday July 29th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Unreported war: US document reveals scale of conflict

  Thursday July 29th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Baghdad is a city that reeks with the stench of the dead

  Wednesday July 28th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Terror by video: How Iraq’s kidnappers drew their inspiration from horrors of Chechnya

  Monday July 26th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  ’America is not a charitable organisation - they came to steal from Iraq’

  Wednesday July 21st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  ’A better and safer place’

  Tuesday July 20th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Four missiles, 14 deaths and the crisis of information in Baghdad

  Monday July 19th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Six die in blast targeted at Iraqi minister

  Sunday July 18th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Why Iraq’s booksellers want the freedom to censor their shelves

  Saturday July 17th, 2004
• Democracy Now!
  

  Robert Fisk On Sovereignty, Martial Law, and Continuing Violence in the New Iraq

  Friday July 16th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Coffin bomb ends another macabre day in ’new’ Iraq

  Friday July 16th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Bloodshed in Baghdad as insurgents try to isolate government

  Thursday July 15th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Iraqi academics targeted in murder spree

  Wednesday July 14th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Defaced by Americans, restored by Iraqis: Saddam’s greatest folly

  Tuesday July 13th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Lessons for Bush from the grandson of a rebel against British rule in the 1920s

  Monday July 12th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The day Jawad saw the birds fall from the sky and the villagers lying dead at his feet

  Saturday July 10th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  So much for democracy: Iraqis plan for introduction of martial law

  Thursday July 8th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Tales from the Tigris riverbank

  Thursday July 8th, 2004
• The Star
  

  Iraq takes backward step in march to democracy

  Thursday July 8th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  So this is what they call the new, ’free’ Iraq

  Sunday July 4th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  US military tried to censor coverage of Saddam hearing

  Saturday July 3rd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Confused? Shadow of his old self? Hardly

  Friday July 2nd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  No mention of power cuts and violence at trial of the century

  Thursday July 1st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The Handover: Restoration of Iraqi sovereignty - or Alice in Wonderland?

  Tuesday June 29th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Iraq, 1917

  Wednesday June 16th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The things Bush didn’t mention in his speech

  Wednesday May 26th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  If we see our enemies as inhuman, then we ourselves end up as savages

  Saturday May 8th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  An illegal and immoral war, betrayed by images that reveal our racism

  Friday May 7th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Pictures of wounded men being shot censored by TV

  Thursday May 6th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  The ’good guys’ who can do no wrong

  Sunday May 2nd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  A warning to those who dare to criticise Israel in the land of free speech

  Saturday April 24th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  By endorsing Ariel Sharon’s plan George Bush has legitimised terrorism

  Friday April 16th, 2004
• The Star
  

  Deaths of scores of mercenaries hidden from view

  Tuesday April 13th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The planners of the war in Iraq have just one answer to their critics: ’shut up’

  Saturday April 10th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  A war that was founded on lies and illusions has one simple truth: Iraqis do not want us

  Friday April 9th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  A PoW’s exit: US airlifts Saddam out of Iraq

  Wednesday April 7th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Iraq on the brink of anarchy

  Tuesday April 6th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  A bloody day in Iraq: Eight US troops die as battles erupt

  Monday April 5th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Dust off the flak jacket. Lay low. And stay off the streets...

  Sunday April 4th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Three more families now rage against the American occupation of their land

  Saturday April 3rd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Atrocity in Fallujah

  Thursday April 1st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Things are getting much worse. It’s not just a ’spike’ or an ’uptick’ in violence

  Thursday April 1st, 2004
• Democracy Now!
  

  Robert Fisk: "Most Of The People Dying In Iraq Are Iraqis"

  Wednesday March 31st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Bremer closes hardline newspaper and Iraqis ask: Is this democracy US-style?

  Tuesday March 30th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Black flags and veils as religion returns to campuses of Iraq

  Monday March 29th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Occupiers spend millions on private army of security men

  Sunday March 28th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Britain’s secret army in Iraq: thousands of armed security men who answer to nobody

  Sunday March 28th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Sunni and Shia share grief at doctor’s murder

  Saturday March 27th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Slaughter of Iraqi ’collaborators’ undermines US sovereignty hopes

  Friday March 26th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Welcome to Gaddafi’s mad, mad world

  Thursday March 25th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The day the 1st Armoured Division, with guns at the ready, came to check on our man in Baghdad

  Wednesday March 24th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Finnish civilians join list of fatalities as 14 British soldiers hurt in Basra

  Tuesday March 23rd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The chilling implications of this state killing

  Tuesday March 23rd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The man who knew too much

  Tuesday March 23rd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  New Iraq? Hooded protest and masked statistics

  Saturday March 20th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Car bomb attack on Baghdad hotel leaves 17 dead

  Thursday March 18th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  ’If I am told to go, I will go.’ Spanish soldiers prepare to return to home front

  Thursday March 18th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Al-Qa’ida attacks intensify, but Iraqi police say: ’Let them come’

  Wednesday March 17th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Iraq: a year of war

  Wednesday March 17th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The West was warned. Now it is paying the price of the ’war on terror’

  Monday March 15th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Focus: One year on - war without end

  Sunday March 14th, 2004
• The lndependent
  

  The life and unexplained death of a Palestinian militant

  Thursday March 11th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Iraqi recruits put in the firing line while Americans retreat to safety of barracks

  Wednesday March 10th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  ’It’s the same old Iraq, just a tiny bit worse than it was last month’

  Monday March 8th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  All this talk of civil war, and now this carnage. Coincidence?

  Wednesday March 3rd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  The fantasy of democracy in an Arab state

  Friday February 13th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Saudis blame God’s will as 300 pilgrims crushed to death at Haj

  Monday February 2nd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Lebanon swaps its war dead for ’Mossad man’

  Saturday January 31st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Why Israel will do business in the hostage bazaar

  Friday January 30th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Revealed: The women who suffered Saddam’s tyranny

  Friday January 23rd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  How the 19 billion ’dirty dinars’ were quickly cleaned up

  Wednesday January 21st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Shot for a Mercedes and left to die: the highway ’Ali Babas’ claim another victim

  Wednesday January 7th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  In the marshes, Iraqis still find dead soldiers from old wars

  Tuesday January 6th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  A birdsong that proves water is bringing Marsh Arabs’ world back to life

  Monday January 5th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  ’The British said my son would be free soon. Three days later I had his body’

  Sunday January 4th, 2004
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  British soldiers ’kicked Iraqi prisoner to death’

  Sunday January 4th, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Far from Baghdad, soldiers and pilgrims shake hands

  Saturday January 3rd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  Mr Bush has one priority for 2004: Get America out of Iraq. Fast.

  Friday January 2nd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  A cruel sense of humour is all that is left for Iraqis to cling to after a suicide bombing

  Friday January 2nd, 2004
• The Independent
  

  War takes an inhuman twist with cats, dogs and donkeys turned into bombs

  Thursday January 1st, 2004
• The Independent
  

  All the heroes deserve remembrance

  Wednesday March 7th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  Powell’s Kuwait tribute leaves Arab world cold

  Tuesday February 27th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  The United States fiddles while the Middle East peace process burns

  Monday February 26th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  Powell to meet nine leaders in four days in whirlwind Middle East tour

  Saturday February 24th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  Hizbollah’s game of cat and mouse with UN force

  Monday February 19th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  Once a ’fearsome’ general, Sharon is now little more than an anachronism

  Thursday February 8th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  I want an aggressive Israeli to get the reins of power and go to war

  Wednesday February 7th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  The legacy of Ariel Sharon

  Tuesday February 6th, 2001
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Libya: what’s the bloody motive?

  Sunday February 4th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  American ’disappears’ in Beirut just a day after Lockerbie verdict

  Saturday February 3rd, 2001
• The Independent
  

  UN condemns Israel’s latest border violation with Lebanon

  Friday February 2nd, 2001
• The Independent
  

  Turkish TV denies the Armenian Holocaust

  Friday January 26th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  Bosnians fall victim to Nato’s deadly legacy

  Tuesday January 23rd, 2001
• The Independent
  

  In another Bosnian town two small boys lie in their hospital beds. Is this collateral damage?

  Friday January 19th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  Are the governments of Nato guilty of committing a heinous war crime?

  Wednesday January 17th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  Where the streets are littered with DU shells

  Monday January 15th, 2001
• The Independent on Sunday
  

  Sick, bleeding and losing nails: the girl who played with Nato uranium

  Sunday January 14th, 2001
• The Independent
  

  The truth about depleted uranium

  Monday January 8th, 2001