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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... weekly need to write something at a right-angle to the days gone by, the need to explore one's own anger as well as ... week. That's the kind of anger that journalists are permitted to deploy, the anger of righteousness and fear. It is ...
... weekly need to write something at a right-angle to the days gone by, the need to explore one's own anger as well as ... week. That's the kind of anger that journalists are permitted to deploy, the anger of righteousness and fear. It is ...
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... week, as his missiles had just left their ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, there was Bill Clinton telling the people of the Middle East that Islam was one of the world's great religions. As my Beirut grocer put it to me ...
... week, as his missiles had just left their ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, there was Bill Clinton telling the people of the Middle East that Islam was one of the world's great religions. As my Beirut grocer put it to me ...
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... week. When I suggested it could adopt fairer policies in the region, I was admonished for not answering a question about 'terrorism'. For what really lies at the root of Arab reaction to the US attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan is that ...
... week. When I suggested it could adopt fairer policies in the region, I was admonished for not answering a question about 'terrorism'. For what really lies at the root of Arab reaction to the US attacks on Sudan and Afghanistan is that ...
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... weeks earlier – could throw a quarter of a million bucks at the Taliban in the middle of a fire-fight. Nor how the Pashtun tribal leaders of Kandahar province are now riding around in brand-new four-wheel-drives with thousands of ...
... weeks earlier – could throw a quarter of a million bucks at the Taliban in the middle of a fire-fight. Nor how the Pashtun tribal leaders of Kandahar province are now riding around in brand-new four-wheel-drives with thousands of ...
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... week ago, CIA director George Tenet announced that Iraq had links with al-Qaeda. 'Contacts and linkages' have been established, he told us. And that's what the headlines said. But then Tenet continued by saying that the mutual antipathy ...
... week ago, CIA director George Tenet announced that Iraq had links with al-Qaeda. 'Contacts and linkages' have been established, he told us. And that's what the headlines said. But then Tenet continued by saying that the mutual antipathy ...
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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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