The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays by Robert FiskPublicAffairs, 2008. júl. 29. - 544 oldal 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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... Bush Productions is preparing to go into action 'Our guys may kick them around a little . . .' The wind from the East Publish and be damned? Or stay silent? So let me denounce genocide from the dock You're talking nonsense, Mr ...
... Bush Productions is preparing to go into action 'Our guys may kick them around a little . . .' The wind from the East Publish and be damned? Or stay silent? So let me denounce genocide from the dock You're talking nonsense, Mr ...
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... Bush with all the enthusiasm of the mass murderer who prowls through Christian and Islamic scriptures in search of ... Bush's disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq – and his apparent desire to erase these defeats with yet a new military ...
... Bush with all the enthusiasm of the mass murderer who prowls through Christian and Islamic scriptures in search of ... Bush's disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq – and his apparent desire to erase these defeats with yet a new military ...
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... and the covert racism of Bush. When he sends Ariel to wreck the usurping King Alonso's ship on his island, the airy spirit returns with an account of his success which – despite his subsequent saving of lives – is a firestorm coming 9.
... and the covert racism of Bush. When he sends Ariel to wreck the usurping King Alonso's ship on his island, the airy spirit returns with an account of his success which – despite his subsequent saving of lives – is a firestorm coming 9.
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... Bush vainly tried to claim between 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 ...
... Bush vainly tried to claim between 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 ...
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... Bush announced a crusade for infinite 'justice' – later downgraded to infinite freedom – and bombed Afghanistan. Using the gunmen and murderers of the discredited Northern Alliance to destroy the gunmen and murderers of the discredited ...
... Bush announced a crusade for infinite 'justice' – later downgraded to infinite freedom – and bombed Afghanistan. Using the gunmen and murderers of the discredited Northern Alliance to destroy the gunmen and murderers of the discredited ...
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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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