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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... I can say what I think. It is a privilege and it is a trust – especially in a country, Britain, where the system of democracy has been so badly stained (principally by former prime minister Blair) that the press preface xv.
... I can say what I think. It is a privilege and it is a trust – especially in a country, Britain, where the system of democracy has been so badly stained (principally by former prime minister Blair) that the press preface xv.
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... country to war and the swamp in which our army found itself in Iraq. So Blair remains, for the most part, 'Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara' in these articles.* A columnist must sometimes write with a cartoonist's strokes. Books occasionally ...
... country to war and the swamp in which our army found itself in Iraq. So Blair remains, for the most part, 'Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara' in these articles.* A columnist must sometimes write with a cartoonist's strokes. Books occasionally ...
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... country there be nothing compell'd from the villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the French upbraided or abused in disdainful language . . . In France, Eisenhower shot post-D-Day rapists in the US army. The SS hanged their ...
... country there be nothing compell'd from the villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the French upbraided or abused in disdainful language . . . In France, Eisenhower shot post-D-Day rapists in the US army. The SS hanged their ...
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... country – for fifteen years. So why is this lie repeated yet again? Iran is under threat. Lebanon is under threat. Syria is under threat – its 'terrorism' status has been heightened by the State Department – and so is Iraq. But Ariel ...
... country – for fifteen years. So why is this lie repeated yet again? Iran is under threat. Lebanon is under threat. Syria is under threat – its 'terrorism' status has been heightened by the State Department – and so is Iraq. But Ariel ...
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... country, and – after they've found not a jam-jar of dangerous chemicals in 230 raids – President Bush announces that Iraq is a threat to America, has not disarmed and may have to be invaded. So that's it, then. How, readers keep asking ...
... country, and – after they've found not a jam-jar of dangerous chemicals in 230 raids – President Bush announces that Iraq is a threat to America, has not disarmed and may have to be invaded. So that's it, then. How, readers keep asking ...
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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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