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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... asked me last 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 ...
... asked me last 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 ...
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... asking. Bin Laden himself was obsessed for many months with the massacre of Lebanese civilians by the Israelis at the UN base at Qana in southern Lebanon in April 1996. Why had Clinton not condemned this 'terrorist act', he asked. (In ...
... asking. Bin Laden himself was obsessed for many months with the massacre of Lebanese civilians by the Israelis at the UN base at Qana in southern Lebanon in April 1996. Why had Clinton not condemned this 'terrorist act', he asked. (In ...
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... asked. 'Have you seen the headlines of all this shite?' and he pulled Newsweek from the shelf. The headline: 'After The Evil'. 'What is this biblical bollocks?' Vincent asked me. Osama bin Laden's overgrained, videotaped face stared ...
... asked. 'Have you seen the headlines of all this shite?' and he pulled Newsweek from the shelf. The headline: 'After The Evil'. 'What is this biblical bollocks?' Vincent asked me. Osama bin Laden's overgrained, videotaped face stared ...
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... asked how the Alliance – which didn't have enough money to pay for bullets a few 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 ...
... asked how the Alliance – which didn't have enough money to pay for bullets a few 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 ...
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... asked, was there no explanation for this 'bizarre and incomprehensible' performance by Arafat? Why did he not march out of Ramallah with the Christian clerics who had come to give their support until physically stopped by Israeli troops ...
... asked, was there no explanation for this 'bizarre and incomprehensible' performance by Arafat? Why did he not march out of Ramallah with the Christian clerics who had come to give their support until physically stopped by Israeli troops ...
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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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