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Fisk: Honor Killings 2/4: Relatives with blood on their hands
Znet Article, September, 13 2010
Robert Fisk
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Eight of the women who sought refuge in Hina Jilani's Lahore shelter died later at the hands of their families. In the second part of our investigation, the lawyer explains how authorities covered up
Fisk: Honour Killings 1/4: The Crime-Wave That Shames The World
Znet Article, September, 12 2010
Robert Fisk
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It's one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of 'honour'. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly.
Fisk: Iraq: Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has Certainly Left Its Mark
Znet Article, August, 22 2010
Robert Fisk
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When you invade someone else's country, there has to be a first soldier - just as there has to be a last.
Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing
Znet Article, August, 04 2010
Robert Fisk
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The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline.
Fisk: They're All Groveling and You Can Guess the Reason
Znet Article, July, 19 2010
Robert Fisk
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Only a week after CNN's Octavia Nasr and the British ambassador to Beirut, Frances Guy, dared to suggest that Sayyed Hassan Fadlallah of Lebanon was a nice old chap rather than the super-terrorist the Americans have always claimed him to be, the g...
Fisk: Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda
Znet Article, July, 09 2010
Robert Fisk
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Journalism has become a linguistic battleground – and when reporters use terms such ‘spike in violence’ or ‘surge’ or ‘settler’, they are playing along with a pernicious game, argues Robert Fisk.
Fisk: Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda
Znet Article, June, 27 2010
Robert Fisk
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Journalism has become a linguistic battleground – and when reporters use terms such ‘spike in violence’ or ‘surge’ or ‘settler’, they are playing along with a pernicious game, argues Robert Fisk.
Fisk: Silenced for Speaking the Truth about Guantanamo
Znet Article, May, 18 2010
Robert Fisk
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I began my column last week with the words "We know all about Guantanamo". I was wrong. Courtesy of the Toronto press - until a few days ago, when half of them were censored out of the drumhead courts martial that pass for "justice" in this execra...
Fisk: As things get worse in Pakistan, the optimism continues to soar
Znet Article, April, 02 2010
Robert Fisk
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Civilians have paid the price in revenge attacks that usually target the army
Fisk: Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared'
Znet Article, March, 20 2010
Robert Fisk
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If you want to know how brutally Pakistan treats its people, you should meet Amina Janjua. An intelligent painter and interior designer, she sits on the vast sofa of her living room in Rawalpindi – a room that somehow accentuates her loneliness – ...
Fisk: Gaza's Defiant Tunnellers Head Deeper Underground
Znet Article, February, 16 2010
Robert Fisk
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They are the real resistance. They are the lung through which Gaza breathes. True, missiles must pass along their subterranean tracks, Qassam rockets, too, Kalashnikov ammunition, explosives. But by far the greatest burden of the tunnellers of Gaz...
Fisk: Israel feels under siege. Like a victim. An underdog
Znet Article, February, 06 2010
Robert Fisk
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So the propaganda war is on. Forget Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the 15,000 Lebanese and Palestinian dead. Forget the Sabra and Shatila massacre that same year by Israel's militia allies as their troops watched. Erase the Qana massacre...
Fisk: Why Does The US Turn A Blind Eye To Israeli Bulldozers?
Znet Article, January, 31 2010
Robert Fisk
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"Palestine" is no more. Call it a "peace process" or a "road map"; blame it on Barack Obama's weakness, his pathetic, childish admission - like an optimistic doctor returning a sick child to its parents without hope of recovery - that a Middle Eas...
Fisk: The tree-lined bunkers that could change the face of the Middle East
Znet Article, January, 28 2010
Robert Fisk
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The border looks peaceful, but Hizbollah and Israel are preparing for war
Fisk: This strategy has been tried before - without success
Znet Article, December, 06 2009
Robert Fisk
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"They shoot Russians," the young paratrooper told me. It was cold. We had come across his unit, the Soviet 105th Airborne Division, near Charikar, north of Kabul, and he was holding out a bandaged hand. Blood seeped through, staining the sleeve of...
Fisk: America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator
Znet Article, November, 05 2009
Robert Fisk
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Could there be a more accurate description of the Obama-Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? First the Palestinians held fair elections in 2006, voted for Hamas and were brutally punished for it...
Fisk: Genocide forgotten: Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey
Znet Article, October, 08 2009
Robert Fisk
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A new trade deal is set to gloss over the murder of 1.5 million people
Fisk: The demise of the dollar
Znet Article, October, 06 2009
Robert Fisk
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In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading
Fisk: Everyone Seems to Be Agreeing with Bin Laden These Days
Znet Article, September, 20 2009
Robert Fisk
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Obama and Osama are at last participating in the same narrative. For the US president's critics - indeed, for many critics of the West's military occupation of Afghanistan - are beginning to speak in the same language as Obama's (and their) greate...
Fisk: You won't find any lessons in unity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Znet Article, July, 21 2009
Robert Fisk
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Seeing is believing. Providing you're not a Palestinian or an Armenian or anyone interested in property rights.
Fisk: Iran's Day of Destiny
Znet Article, June, 17 2009
Robert Fisk
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Fisk witnesses the courage of one million protesters who ignored threats, guns and bloodshed to demand freedom in Iran
Fisk: Words that could heal wounds of centuries
Znet Article, June, 07 2009
Robert Fisk
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President Obama reaches out to the Islamic world in a landmark speech
Fisk: A Historic Day For Iraq
Znet Article, May, 10 2009
Robert Fisk
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A Historic Day For Iraq But not in the way the British want to believe
Fisk: Galloway a victim of Canada's baffling approach to fighting terror
Znet Article, April, 03 2009
Robert Fisk
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How could the Canadian embassy in London have believed Mr Galloway's food and medicine shipment to Gaza, made with Israel's agreement, and its delivery to the Hamas government was a "terrorist" act, even if Stephen Harper's Canadian government reg...
Fisk: Why Avigdor Lieberman is the worst thing that could happen to the Middle East
Znet Article, March, 19 2009
Robert Fisk
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I can identify Lieberman's language with the language of Messrs Mladic and Karadzic and Milosevic.
Fisk: Robert Fisk on Gaza and the media
Znet Article, February, 23 2009
Robert Fisk
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Reporting independently from the front lines of war is an increasingly rare engagement for journalists working for major international media outlets. From Iraq to Afghanistan, reporters are increasingly embedded with Western military forces, opera...
Fisk: Obama Was Unconvinced By Bibi's Desire For Peace
Znet Article, February, 21 2009
Robert Fisk
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Barack Obama, they say, did not get on well with Bibi Netanyahu when he met him in Jerusalem before the American elections.
Fisk: War reporters used to prefer morality over impartiality
Znet Article, February, 07 2009
Robert Fisk
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I wonder whether we show the same power and passion as the earlier generations?
Fisk: So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza...
Znet Article, January, 22 2009
Robert Fisk
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It would have helped if Obama had the courage to talk about what everyone in the Middle East was talking about. No, it wasn't the US withdrawal from Iraq. They knew about that. They expected the beginning of the end of Guantanamo and the probable ...
Fisk: Isn't It Time For A War Crimes Tribunal?
Znet Article, January, 21 2009
Robert Fisk
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After killing hundreds of women and children, Israel was the good guy again, by declaring a unilateral ceasefire that Hamas was certain to break.
