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Znet Article Fisk: Un-Embedded Journalist

Znet Article, March, 25 2003 Robert Fisk
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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...

Znet Article Fisk: We Bomb, They Suffer

Znet Article, March, 23 2003 Robert Fisk
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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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Fisk: Liberate?

Znet Article, March, 13 2003 Robert Fisk
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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 ...

Znet Article Fisk: US war plans not helped by Blix

Znet Article, March, 08 2003 Robert Fisk
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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...

Znet Article Fisk: The West has been Liberating the Middle East for Centuries

Znet Article, March, 07 2003 Robert Fisk
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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...

Zmag Article Fisk: The Flies That Feed Off The Dead

Zmag Article, March, 01 2003 Robert Fisk
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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 ...

Znet Article Fisk: America Uses Israel's Words To Justify Occupation

Znet Article, March, 01 2003 Robert Fisk
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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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Fisk: Tired of Being Lied to

Znet Article, February, 15 2003 Robert Fisk
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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 ...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

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