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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... al-Qaeda and the crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001. We were fooled. Yet I sometimes believe that we wanted to be fooled–that we wish to be led to the slaughter by our masters, to race for the cliff-edge with the desperate ...
... al-Qaeda and the crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001. We were fooled. Yet I sometimes believe that we wanted to be fooled–that we wish to be led to the slaughter by our masters, to race for the cliff-edge with the desperate ...
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... al-Qaeda and Saddam. Caliban is an animal, unworthy of pity, not honoured with a 'human shape'. Compare this with an article in the newspaper USA Today, in which a former American military officer, Ralph Peters – arguing that Washington ...
... al-Qaeda and Saddam. Caliban is an animal, unworthy of pity, not honoured with a 'human shape'. Compare this with an article in the newspaper USA Today, in which a former American military officer, Ralph Peters – arguing that Washington ...
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... al-Qaeda supporters – including two British citizens – were killed in the Afghan raid. But bin Laden was not there. If there is one thing that enrages the Arab world about the United States government – apart from its betrayal of the ...
... al-Qaeda supporters – including two British citizens – were killed in the Afghan raid. But bin Laden was not there. If there is one thing that enrages the Arab world about the United States government – apart from its betrayal of the ...
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... Al-Qaeda was being 'smoked out' of its cave. Osama bin Laden was – well, not captured or even dead; but – well, the Americans had a videotape, incomprehensible to every Arab I've met, which 'proves' that our latest monster planned the ...
... Al-Qaeda was being 'smoked out' of its cave. Osama bin Laden was – well, not captured or even dead; but – well, the Americans had a videotape, incomprehensible to every Arab I've met, which 'proves' that our latest monster planned the ...
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... al-Qaeda enemies hate America because they are 'against democracy' is poppycock. Most of America's Muslim enemies don't know what democracy is – they have certainly never enjoyed it – and their deeds, which are indeed wicked, have ...
... al-Qaeda enemies hate America because they are 'against democracy' is poppycock. Most of America's Muslim enemies don't know what democracy is – they have certainly never enjoyed it – and their deeds, which are indeed wicked, have ...
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Words words words | 83 |
Cinema begins to mirror the world | 145 |
The greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis | 185 |
When I was a child I understood as a child | 203 |
The old mandates | 227 |
The cult of cruelty | 281 |
We have lost our faith and they have not | 327 |
A thing invulnerable | 367 |
America America | 403 |
Unanswered questions | 437 |
The last enemy | 461 |
A street named Petain and the woman he sent | 492 |
index | 499 |
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