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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... civilians which constituted, according to the British High Commissioner, 'an offence to civilisation'. Indignation and fury permeate the file. So does defeat. On 15 December 1947, Lieutenant General Sir Alan Cunningham sent a top-secret ...
... civilians which constituted, according to the British High Commissioner, 'an offence to civilisation'. Indignation and fury permeate the file. So does defeat. On 15 December 1947, Lieutenant General Sir Alan Cunningham sent a top-secret ...
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... civilian centres.' In a remarkable moment of anger, Cunningham concluded that 'we have never at any time on the slightest excuse escaped vociferous and hysterical accusations by Jews that we were a people who were prone to brutal ...
... civilian centres.' In a remarkable moment of anger, Cunningham concluded that 'we have never at any time on the slightest excuse escaped vociferous and hysterical accusations by Jews that we were a people who were prone to brutal ...
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... civilians and its continued presence in Saudi Arabia – it is the administration's habit of telling Arabs how much it loves them. Before every air strike, the President assures his future victims how much he admires them. Ronald Reagan ...
... civilians and its continued presence in Saudi Arabia – it is the administration's habit of telling Arabs how much it loves them. Before every air strike, the President assures his future victims how much he admires them. Ronald Reagan ...
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... civilian population of Iraq; Arab fury at this catastrophe is one reason why a normally compassionate people responded ... civilians by the Israelis at the UN base at Qana in southern Lebanon in April 1996. Why had Clinton not condemned ...
... civilian population of Iraq; Arab fury at this catastrophe is one reason why a normally compassionate people responded ... civilians by the Israelis at the UN base at Qana in southern Lebanon in April 1996. Why had Clinton not condemned ...
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... Civilian Victims of United States Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting' (Revised March 2002). (http://www.cursor.org/stories/civiliandeaths.htm) * Now King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. * By 2006, 26 the age of the warrior.
... Civilian Victims of United States Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting' (Revised March 2002). (http://www.cursor.org/stories/civiliandeaths.htm) * Now King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. * By 2006, 26 the age of the warrior.
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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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