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Fisk: Un-Embedded Journalist
Znet Article, March, 25 2003
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Robert Fisk on Washington’s ‘Quagmire’ in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the Fallacy of Bush’s ‘War of Liberation’ by Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill NOTE: THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT Amy G...
Fisk: We Bomb, They Suffer
Znet Article, March, 23 2003
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Donald Rumsfeld says the American attack on Baghdad is "as targeted an air campaign as has ever existed" but he should not try telling that ...
Fisk: The Missiles
Znet Article, March, 22 2003
Robert Fisk
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Saddam's main presidential palace, a great rampart of a building 20 storeys high, simply exploded in front of me a cauldron of fire, a 100ft sheet of flame and a sound that had my ears singing for an hour after. The entire, massively buttressed ed...
Fisk: The War of Misinformation has Begun
Znet Article, March, 16 2003
Robert Fisk
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All across the Middle East, they are deploying by the thousand. In the deserts of Kuwait, in Amman, in northern Iraq, in Turkey, in Israel and in Baghdad itself. There must be 7,000 journalists and crews "in theatre", as the more jingoistic of the...
Fisk: Liberate?
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
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On March 8, 1917, Lt. Gen. Stanley Maude issued a "Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad". Maude's Anglo-Indian Army of the Tigres had invaded and occupied Iraq - after storming up the country from Basra - to "free" its people from ...
Fisk: US war plans not helped by Blix
Znet Article, March, 08 2003
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Oh, for the ice-cold Swedish eye on the Middle East. Ah, for the freezing Scandinavian vision of truth. Hans Blix, everybody's headmaster, delivered his school report yesterday with enough fairness to outrage both pupil – Iraq – an...
Fisk: The West has been Liberating the Middle East for Centuries
Znet Article, March, 07 2003
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ON 8 MARCH 1917, Lieutenant- general Stanley Maude issued a "Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad". Maude's Anglo-Indian Army of the Tigres had just invaded and occupied Iraq - after storming up the country from Basra - to "free" i...
Fisk: The Flies That Feed Off The Dead
Zmag Article, March, 01 2003
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O n the road to Basra, ITV was filming wild dogs as they tore at the corpses of the Iraqi dead. Every few seconds a ravenous beast would rip off a decaying arm and make off with it over the desert ...
Fisk: America Uses Israel's Words To Justify Occupation
Znet Article, March, 01 2003
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Ah, to be a "viable" state! The word "viable" has now become the be-all and end-all of American policy towards Palestine. "For its part," George Bush told us, "the new government of Israel, as the terror threat is removed and security improves, wi...
Fisk: Censored
Znet Article, February, 25 2003
Robert Fisk
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Already, the American press is expressing its approval of the coverage of American forces which the US military intends to allow its reporters in the next Gulf war. The boys from CNN, CBS, ABC and The New York Times will be "embedded" among the US...
Fisk: Arab Response to War...
Znet Article, February, 19 2003
Robert Fisk
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Could anything be more pathetic than the Arab demonstration against war? A million Britons marched in London, more than half a million Spaniards in Madrid; 200,000 in Paris and New York. And Cairo? Well, just 600 Egyptians turned up in their capit...
Fisk: A Nation Divided, With No Bridges Left To Build
Znet Article, February, 17 2003
Robert Fisk
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The show was over, recorded for one of those nice liberal local American TV cable channels this time in Texas where everyone agrees that war is wrong, that George Bush is in the hands of right-wing Christian fundamentalists and pro-Isr...
Fisk: Tired of Being Lied to
Znet Article, February, 15 2003
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In the end, I think we are just tired of being lied to. Tired of being talked down to, of being bombarded with Second World War jingoism and scare stories and false information and student essays dressed up as "intelligence". We are sick of being ...
Fisk: Powell Presentation
Znet Article, February, 06 2003
Robert Fisk
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Sources, foreign intelligence sources, "our sources," defectors, sources, sources, sources. Colin Powell's terror talk to the United Nations Security Council yesterday sounded like one of those government-inspired reports on the front page of The ...
Fisk: Don't Mention The War In Afghanistan
Znet Article, February, 05 2003
Robert Fisk
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There's one sure bet about the statement to be made to the UN Security Council today by the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell – or by General Colin Powell as he has now been mysteriously reassigned by the American press: he won't be talk...
Fisk: The Wartime Deceptions
Znet Article, January, 27 2003
Robert Fisk
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The Israeli writer Uri Avnery once delivered a wickedly sharp open letter to Menachem Begin, the Israeli prime minister who sent his army to defeat in Lebanon. Enraged by Begin's constant evocation of the Second World War – likening Yasser...
Fisk: War Journalists Should Not Be Cosying Up To The Military
Znet Article, January, 21 2003
Robert Fisk
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It looks like a rerun of the 1991 Gulf War. Already American journalists are fighting like tigers to join "the pool", to be "embedded" in the US military so that they can see the war at first hand – and, of course, be censored. Eleven year...
Fisk: This Looming War Isn't About Chemical Warheads Or Human Rights: It's About Oil
Znet Article, January, 18 2003
Robert Fisk
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I was sitting on the floor of an old concrete house in the suburbs of Amman this week, stuffing into my mouth vast heaps of lamb and boiled rice soaked in melted butter. The elderly, bearded, robed men from Maan – the most Islamist a...
Fisk: Israeli At US Loan Talks Is Implicated In Massacre
Znet Article, January, 13 2003
Robert Fisk
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Israel is asking the United States for $8bn (£5bn) in loan guarantees – and has sent to Washington one of the former army officers implicated in the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacre of Palestinian civilians to persuade the Bush administrati...
Fisk: Double Standards In War On Terror
Znet Article, January, 04 2003
Robert Fisk
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I think I'm getting the picture. North Korea breaks all its nuclear agreements with the United States, throws out UN inspectors and sets off to make a bomb a year, and President Bush says it's "a diplomatic issue". Iraq hands over a 12,000-page ac...
