The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays by Robert FiskPublicAffairs, 2008/07/29 - 544 ページ Robert Fisk has amassed a massive and devoted global readership with his eloquent and far-ranging articles on international politics. Now, for the first time, his brave and incisive essays have been collected in a single volume that ranges in scope from the recent war in Lebanon to the rise of Hamas; from the invasion of Kuwait to the looting of Baghdad; from America's imperial ambitions to the inescapable influence of the Treaty of Versailles. Taken together, these articles form an unparalleled account of our war-torn recent history. |
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We are all Rifaats now 265 | 265 |
The ministry of fear 269 | 269 |
We have all made our wills 273 | 273 |
Duty unto death and the United Nations 276 | 276 |
8 The cult of cruelty 281 | 281 |
The age of the warrior 282 | 282 |
Tortures out abuse is in 286 | 286 |
The truth the truth 290 | 290 |
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So let me denounce genocide from the dock 56 | 56 |
Youre talking nonsense Mr Ambassador 60 | 60 |
Armenias 1500001st genocide victim 64 | 64 |
Sneaking a book out in silence 66 | 66 |
A conflict of interest 70 | 70 |
Bravery tears and broken dreams 74 | 74 |
A holocaust denier in the White House 78 | 78 |
3 Words words words 83 | 83 |
Hack blasts local rags 84 | 84 |
We should have listened to Bin Laden 96 | 96 |
The jargon disease 101 | 101 |
Poisonous academics and their claptrap of exclusion 105
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Soft words hard questions 109 | 109 |
The pen the telex the phone and the despised email 113
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The forgotten art of handwriting 117 | 117 |
Believe it or not 121 | 121 |
Murder is murder is murder 125 | 125 |
Ah Mary you poor diddums 129 | 129 |
A very edgy situation 133 | 133 |
what diplomats can get up to 137 | 137 |
A lesson from the Holocaust 141 | 141 |
4 Cinema begins to mirror the world 145 | 145 |
Applause from the Muslims of Beirut 147 | 147 |
Saladins eyes 151 | 151 |
My challenge for Steven Spielberg 155 | 155 |
Da Vinci shit 159 | 159 |
Weve all been veiled from the truth 163 | 163 |
When art is incapable of matching life 167 | 167 |
A policemans lot is not a happy one 171 | 171 |
Take a beautiful woman to the cinema 175 | 175 |
A river through time 179 | 179 |
5 The greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis 185 | 185 |
A long and honourable tradition of smearing the dead 186
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Tricky stuff evil 191 | 191 |
Middle East hope Europe in crisis 195 | 195 |
A poet on the run in Fortress Europe 199 | 199 |
6 When I was a child I understood as a child 203 | 203 |
Another of Arthurs damned farthings 204 | 204 |
First mate Edward Fisk 208 | 208 |
Come on Sutton 212 | 212 |
Cold war nights 216 | 216 |
All this talk of special trains 220 | 220 |
Fear of flying 224 | 224 |
7 The old mandates 227 | 227 |
God damn that democracy 228 | 228 |
Goldplated taps 232 | 232 |
The man who will never apologise 236 | 236 |
The lady in seat 1K 239 | 239 |
Whatever you do dont mention the war 242 | 242 |
The best defender on earth of Lebanons sovereignty 247
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Alphonse Bechirs spectacles 251 | 251 |
The cat who ate missile wire for breakfast 254 | 254 |
The torturer who lived near the theatre 257 | 257 |
The temple of truth 261 | 261 |
Crusaders of the Green Zone 294 | 294 |
Paradise in Hell 298 | 298 |
Bush is a revelatory at bedtime 302 | 302 |
The worse it gets the bigger the lies 306 | 306 |
Lets have more martyrs 311 | 311 |
The flying carpet 315 | 315 |
The show must go on 319 | 319 |
He was killed by the enemy but all is well in Iraq 323
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9 We have lost our faith and they have not 327 | 327 |
God and the devil 329 | 329 |
The childishness of civilisations 333 | 333 |
Look in the mirror 336 | 336 |
Smashing history 340 | 340 |
So now its brownskinned 344 | 344 |
The faith question 348 | 348 |
Hatred on a map 351 | 351 |
If you bomb our cities we will bomb yours 355 | 355 |
The lies of racists 359 | 359 |
Dreamology 361 | 361 |
10 A thing invulnerable 367 | 367 |
What the Romans would have thought of Iraq 368 | 368 |
In memoriam 372 | 372 |
Read Lawrence of Arabia 376 | 376 |
A peek into the Fascist era 380 | 380 |
Who now cries for the dead of Waterloo? 384 | 384 |
a dark tale from Switzerland 388
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You can tell a soldier to burn a village 392 | 392 |
Should journalists testify at war crimes trials? 395 | 395 |
Where are the great men of today? 399 | 399 |
11 America America 403 | 403 |
Free speech 404 | 404 |
Its a draw 408 | 408 |
Fear and loathing on an American campus 412 | 412 |
How Muslim middle America made me feel safer 416 | 416 |
Will the media boys and girls catch up? 420 | 420 |
Brazil America and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom 424 | 424 |
From Cairo to Valdosta 428 | 428 |
Trying to get into America 432 | 432 |
12 Unanswered questions 437 | 437 |
Is the problem weather? Or is it war? 438 | 438 |
Fear climate change not our enemies 441 | 441 |
Just who creates reality? 445 | 445 |
A letter from Mrs Irvine 449 | 449 |
Who killed Benazir? 453 | 453 |
The strange case of Gunner Wills 457 | 457 |
13 The last enemy 461 | 461 |
In the Colosseum thoughts turn to death 463 | 463 |
Dead heroes and living memories 467 | 467 |
The ship that stands upright at the bottom of the Sea 471
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Thanks Bruce 475 | 475 |
Those who went before us 479 | 479 |
Farewell AneKarine 483 | 483 |
They told Andrea that Chris had not suffered 487 | 487 |
Postscript The dilution of memory 491
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A street named Petain and the woman he sen tto Auschwitz 492
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I am the girl of Irene Nemirovsky 496 | 496 |
Index 499
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