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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... President Bill Clinton launched a cruise missile attack on Sudan and on a base in Afghanistan at which Osama bin Laden was supposed to be living. In Khartoum, the missiles destroyed a factory which the Americans claimed was producing ...
... President Bill Clinton launched a cruise missile attack on Sudan and on a base in Afghanistan at which Osama bin Laden was supposed to be living. In Khartoum, the missiles destroyed a factory which the Americans claimed was producing ...
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... President 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 ...
... President 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 ...
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... President Bush has long ago forgotten his 'vision' of a Palestinian state – produced when he needed Arab acquiescence in the bombardment of Afghanistan but swiftly buried once it had served its purpose – and Arafat's role now is to ...
... President Bush has long ago forgotten his 'vision' of a Palestinian state – produced when he needed Arab acquiescence in the bombardment of Afghanistan but swiftly buried once it had served its purpose – and Arafat's role now is to ...
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... presidents and princes are to hold a summit in Beirut. They will issue ringing declarations of support for the Palestinians and almost equally earnest support for a war against 'terrorism'. They cannot criticise US policy, however ...
... presidents and princes are to hold a summit in Beirut. They will issue ringing declarations of support for the Palestinians and almost equally earnest support for a war against 'terrorism'. They cannot criticise US policy, however ...
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... strategy of terror and formed a coalition of terror.' That's pretty much what President Bush said about Osama bin Laden. But what on earth does it mean? That Arafat is actually sending The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war.
... strategy of terror and formed a coalition of terror.' That's pretty much what President Bush said about Osama bin Laden. But what on earth does it mean? That Arafat is actually sending The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war.
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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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