Archiv: Robert Fisk


19.05.2018 - 06:40 [ Robert Fisk / Independent ]

How long after this week‘s Gaza massacre are we going to continue pretending that the Palestinians are non-people?

Remember how they were to blame for their own exodus seven decades ago, because they followed the instructions of radio stations to leave their homes until the Jews of Israel were ‘driven into the sea’. Only, of course, the radio broadcasts never existed

18.04.2018 - 04:41 [ Canary ]

A reporter finally entered the ‘chemical attack’ site in Syria. What he found is extraordinary.

(17.April) The doctor’s account is consistent with reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on 7 April. While the corporate media usually quotes the UK-based SOHR, mainstream journalists have not done so this time. Contrary to the dominant narrative, the SOHR has not reported on any chemical attack in Douma. Rather, the organisation wrote that “heavy and intense shelling” meant that “11 people at least including 5 children had suffocated”.
The SOHR has three reports from 7 April detailing injuries and fatalities from people starved of oxygen.
Locals “never believed in gas stories”