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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...

Znet Article Fisk: Why Blair's Magic Fix Is Destined To End In Failure

Znet Article, December, 17 2002 Robert Fisk
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First, it was Secretary of State Colin Powell who announced a Middle East peace conference. That was back in the spring – nothing happened. There was no peace conference. Now it's Tony Blair announcing a conference, along with that famili...

Znet Article Fisk: With Runners And Whispers, Al-Qai'da Outfoxes US Forces

Znet Article, December, 06 2002 Robert Fisk
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The Americans take them shackled and hooded on to transport aircraft to Kandahar. They live in pens of eight or 10 men. They are given cots with blankets but no privacy. They are forced to urinate and defecate publicly because the Americans want t...

Znet Article Fisk: We Are Being Set Up For A War Against Iraq

Znet Article, December, 04 2002 Robert Fisk
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In North Carolina last month, a woman attending a lecture I was giving asked me when America would go to war in Iraq. I told her to watch the front page of The New York Times and The Washington Post for the first smear campaigns against the UN ins...

Znet Article Fisk: Ariel Sharon Has Walked Into A Trap. And We Are About To Follow Him

Znet Article, December, 01 2002 Robert Fisk
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Time was when Bali would have been the story of the year, the most violent act in 12 months, to be recalled with horror in December as the most terrible of crimes. But Bali was just the story of the month. And soon, perhaps, the Karachi bombings a...

Znet Article Fisk: Bin Laden Is Alive

Znet Article, November, 14 2002 Robert Fisk
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It is him. The man on the tape is Bin Laden. He is alive. It took only a brief flurry of phone calls to the Middle East and south-west Asia for the most impeccable sources to confirm that Osama bin Laden is alive and that it was his gravelly voice...

Znet Article Fisk: The Malevolence Of History

Znet Article, November, 08 2002 Robert Fisk
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Robert Fisk, currently Middle East correspondent for the British daily the Independent, has covered wars the old-fashioned way for 30 years, from Northern Ireland to Afghanistan. He has lived in Beirut for 25 years, through the Lebanese civil war ...

Znet Article Fisk: Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War

Znet Article, November, 07 2002 Robert Fisk
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"A clean shot" was The Washington Post's revolting description of the murder of the al-Qa'ida leaders in Yemen by a US "Predator" unmanned aircraft. With grovelling approval, the US press used Israel's own mendacious description of such murders as...

Znet Article Fisk: How To Shut Up Your Critics With A Single Word

Znet Article, October, 22 2002 Robert Fisk
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Thank God, I often say, for the Israeli press. For where else will you find the sort of courageous condemnation of Israel's cruel and brutal treatment of the Palestinians? Where else can we read that Moshe Ya'alon, Ariel Sharon's new chief of staf...

Znet Article Fisk: What The President Wants Us To forget

Znet Article, October, 08 2002 Robert Fisk
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Each day now, someone says something even more incredible – even more unimaginable – about President Bush's obsession with war. Yesterday, George Bush was himself telling an audience in Cincinnati about "nuclear holy warriors". For...

Znet Article Fisk: How The League Of Nations Ended Up As Debris

Znet Article, October, 06 2002 Robert Fisk
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So George Bush Jnr is now an expert on the League of Nations, is he? Across America, he's been telling the folks that the United Nations is in danger of becoming no more than the old pre-Second World War organisation. A "talking shop" is how he's ...

Znet Article Fisk: NATO Used The Same Old Trick

Znet Article, October, 04 2002 Robert Fisk
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It's the same old trap. Nato used exactly the same trick to ensure that it could have a war with Slobodan Milosevic. Now the Americans are demanding the same of Saddam Hussein – buried well down in their list of demands, of course. Tell yo...

Znet Article Fisk: Roll call of 322 children killed in the intifada

Znet Article, October, 01 2002 Robert Fisk
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In one of its most shocking reports on the Israeli-Palestinian war, Amnesty International today condemns both sides in the conflict for their "utter disregard" for the lives of children - 250 of them Palestinian and 72 Israeli - who have been kill...

Znet Article Fisk: The Dishonesty Of This So-called Dossier

Znet Article, September, 25 2002 Robert Fisk
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Tony Blair's "dossier" on Iraq is a shocking document. Reading it can only fill a decent human being with shame and outrage. Its pages are final proof – if the contents are true – that a massive crime against humanity has been comm...

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