Robert Fisk

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles.