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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... newspaper, The Independent, which also encourages me to tell it how it is, to report not the cliche ́s and blusterings of 'think tanks' and 'experts', but what I as a reporter see and believe. Each Saturday my editor, Simon Kelner ...
... newspaper, The Independent, which also encourages me to tell it how it is, to report not the cliche ́s and blusterings of 'think tanks' and 'experts', but what I as a reporter see and believe. Each Saturday my editor, Simon Kelner ...
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... newspaper USA Today, in which a former American military officer, Ralph Peters – arguing that Washington should withdraw from Iraq because its people are no longer worthy of our Western sacrifice – refers to 'the comprehensive inability ...
... newspaper USA Today, in which a former American military officer, Ralph Peters – arguing that Washington should withdraw from Iraq because its people are no longer worthy of our Western sacrifice – refers to 'the comprehensive inability ...
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... newspaper reports on the supposed 'aftermath' of the Afghan war, I'd become drugged by the lies. Afghan women were free at last, 'our' peacekeeping force was on its way, the Taliban were crushed. Anti-American demonstrations in Pakistan ...
... newspaper reports on the supposed 'aftermath' of the Afghan war, I'd become drugged by the lies. Afghan women were free at last, 'our' peacekeeping force was on its way, the Taliban were crushed. Anti-American demonstrations in Pakistan ...
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... newspaper article. When will someone admit the truth: that the Israelis and Palestinians are engaged in a dirty colonial war which will leave both sides shamed and humiliated? Just listen to what Sharon has been saying in the past ...
... newspaper article. When will someone admit the truth: that the Israelis and Palestinians are engaged in a dirty colonial war which will leave both sides shamed and humiliated? Just listen to what Sharon has been saying in the past ...
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... newspaper editorials don't come near to expressing public opinion. In Damascus, Majida Tabbaa has become famous as the lady who threw the US consul Roberto Powers out of her husband's downtown restaurant on 7 April. 'I went over to him ...
... newspaper editorials don't come near to expressing public opinion. In Damascus, Majida Tabbaa has become famous as the lady who threw the US consul Roberto Powers out of her husband's downtown restaurant on 7 April. 'I went over to him ...
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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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