A gigantic loss project

MEDIA: Saad Mohseni's book is an important and well-written account of what an active entrepreneur achieved together with and thanks to a diverse and courageous group of journalists.

HISTORY: Reading this book is at times almost like watching one of those Hollywood war movies that were so popular a few years ago.

MIDDLE EAST: Robert Fisk reflects on the normalization of warfare and the Israelis' contempt for international law. He also looks at his own role as a referent from bloodbaths and massacres, at his stories from mass graves, from torture and executions for almost half a century.

INTELLIGENCE: In the United States, 18 different U.S. agencies at the government level are engaged in intelligence activities. In 1996 there were 6 million decisions to declassify material – by 2016 this had grown to 55 million!