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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
... had set the oil fields afire in 1991. Then there's the small packet in which visitors to the Fisk Memorial Library will one day find a Havana cigar ring marked "The first cigar Mohamed Heikal gave me after 29 years of friendship!" I know Mohamed, Egypt's worthiest journalist and writer, reads this column – and will appreciate the above. Long life to him.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Allah was kind to Dubai yesterday. Just when the emirate's unspeakable wealth appeared on the point of collapse – stock markets, of course, naturally 'trembled' – along came the feast of Eid al-Adha and sent all the kings and emirs and sheikhs off to their diwans to celebrate the decision by the father of monotheism – the Prophet Ibrahim himself – not to kill his son Ismail....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
It's amazing what a body can do. Back in 1986, after Alec Collett's corpse was videoed swinging from a noose – we had to assume this gruesome piece of cinema showed him, for his face was covered – the Lebanese concluded that the British freelance journalist was killed in revenge for Margaret Thatcher's decision to allow Ronald Reagan to air-raid Libya from airbases in the UK. That's what...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Robert Fisk "....There are, however, two basic truths about Dubai which, predictably, have not found their way into market speculation or newspaper analysis. The first is that Dubai may soon find itself a satellite not of its Abu Dhabi capital but of India . The biggest merchants in Dubai are Indian – they run the gold market, even the bookshops in Sheikh Mohamed's playpen...
Truthdig (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Robert Fisk There are two basic truths about Dubai which, predictably, have not found their way into market speculation or newspaper analysis. The first is that Dubai may soon find itself a satellite not of its Abu Dhabi capital but of India. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 27, 2009 Global Markets Hit by Dubai’s Debt Crisis November 24, 2009 Obama Hints at ‘Comprehensive’...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... the intent of the Gulf states to abandon the dollar. Last month, veteran British journalist Robert Fisk filed a story titled “ The Demise of the Dollar ” in which he claimed that the Gulf countries were secretly working to set up a new currency to be used for oil trade. The report shook the markets and provoked a furor across the globe with many accusing Fisk of...
