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Fisk: Torture Does Not Work
Znet Article, February, 04 2008
Robert Fisk
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Torture works," an American special forces major – now, needless to say, a colonel – boasted to a colleague of mine a couple of years ago. It seems that the CIA and its hired thugs in Afghanistan and Iraq still believe this. There is no evidence t...
Fisk: They Don’t Blame Al-Qa’ida. They Blame Musharraf.
Znet Article, December, 30 2007
Robert Fisk
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Weird, isn’t it, how swiftly the narrative is laid down for us. Benazir Bhutto, the courageous leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, is assassinated in Rawalpindi - attached to the very capital of Islamabad wherein ex-General Pervez Musharraf liv...
Fisk: Rendition
Znet Article, December, 13 2007
Robert Fisk
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At university, we male students used to say that it was impossible to take a beautiful young woman to the cinema and concentrate on the film. But in Canada, I've at last proved this to be untrue. Familiar with the Middle East and its abuses – and ...
Fisk: The Forgotten Holocaust
Znet Article, August, 30 2007
Robert Fisk
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The Forgotten Holocaust
Fisk: The Iraqis Don't Deserve Us, So We Betray Them
Znet Article, August, 24 2007
Robert Fisk
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The Iraqis Don't Deserve Us, So We Betray Them
Fisk: How can Blair possibly be given this job?
Znet Article, June, 27 2007
Robert Fisk
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How can Blair possibly be given this job?
Fisk: Welcome to 'Palestine'
Znet Article, June, 18 2007
Robert Fisk
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Welcome to 'Palestine'
Fisk: Assassination brings Lebanon closer to brink
Znet Article, June, 16 2007
Robert Fisk
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Assassination brings Lebanon closer to brink
Fisk: Innocent Victims Caught Up In A War Of Endless Revenge
Znet Article, May, 25 2007
Robert Fisk
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Innocent Victims Caught Up In A War Of Endless Revenge
Fisk: A Front-Row Seat For
Znet Article, May, 23 2007
Robert Fisk
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A Front-Row Seat For
Fisk: Divide and Rule: Bush's Doomed Plan for Baghdad
Znet Article, April, 13 2007
Robert Fisk
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Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad -- despite President George...
Fisk: The True Story of Free Speech in America
Znet Article, April, 08 2007
Robert Fisk
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Laila al-Arian was wearing her headscarf at her desk at Nation Books, one of my New York publishers. No, she told me, it would be difficult to telephone her father. At the medical facility of his North Carolina prison, he can only make a few calls...
Fisk: The truth should be proclaimed loudly
Znet Article, March, 21 2007
Robert Fisk
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Stand by for a quotation to take your breath away. It's from a letter from my Istanbul publishers, who are chickening out of publishing the Turkish-language edition of my book The Great War for Civilisation. The reason, of course, is a chapter ent...
Fisk: Lebanon Will be First Victim of Iran Crisis
Znet Article, February, 23 2007
Robert Fisk
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How easily the sparks from the American-Israeli fire fall across the Middle East. Every threat, every intransigence uttered in Washington and Tehran now burns a little bit more of Lebanon. It is not by chance that the UN forces in the south of the...
Fisk: Iraqi insurgents offer peace in return for US concessions
Znet Article, February, 11 2007
Robert Fisk
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For the first time, Sunni insurgents disclose their conditions for ceasefire in Iraq For the first time, one of Iraq's principal insurgent groups has set out the terms of a ceasefire that would allow American and British forces to leave the coun...
Fisk: World Ignores Signs of Civil War in Lebanon
Znet Article, January, 29 2007
Robert Fisk
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This is how the 1975-9...
Fisk: The Whole Bloody Thing Was Obscene
Znet Article, January, 08 2007
Robert Fisk
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The lynching of Saddam Hussein - for that is what we are talking about - will turn out to be one of the determining moments in the whole shameful crusade upon which the West embarked in March of 2003. Only the president-governor George Bush and Lo...
Fisk: Echoes of the Roman Empire
Znet Article, January, 02 2007
Robert Fisk
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4 December 2006 -- Professor Malcolm Willcock, to be precise, the gentlest, finest of academics who taught the ghastly Fisk Latin and Roman history when I turned up in the second year of Lancaster University's life in 1965. He made the Roman emp...
Fisk: A dictator created then destroyed by America
Znet Article, January, 01 2007
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Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murder...
Fisk: Banality and barefaced lies
Znet Article, December, 27 2006
Robert Fisk
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Here in America, I stare at the land in which I live and see a landscape I do not recogni...
Fisk: The Roman Empire is falling - so it turns to Iran and Syria
Znet Article, December, 07 2006
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The Roman ...
Fisk: Like Hitler and Brezhnev, Bush is in Denial
Znet Article, December, 04 2006
Robert Fisk
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More than half a million deaths, an army trapped in the largest military debacle since Vietnam, a Middle East policy already buried in the sands of Mesopotamia - and still George W Bush is in denial. How does he do it? ...
Fisk: French Plan for Lebanon Collapses
Znet Article, November, 22 2006
Robert Fisk
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The Shia, the largest community in Lebanon, are no longer represented in the Lebanese government. It could be just part of Lebanon's bloody-minded politics--or it could be a most dangerous moment in the history of this tragic country. At the week...
Fisk: U.S. Tanks Will Roll out of Iraq on a Road Paved with Excuses
Znet Article, November, 16 2006
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U.S. Tanks Will Roll out of Iraq on a Road Paved with Excuses
Fisk: Journalists' Coverage of Middle East Shallow and Distorted
Znet Article, November, 15 2006
Robert Fisk
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DEARBORN, MI – Journalists in the "West" should feel a burden of guilt for much that has happened in the Middle East because they have, with their gullibility, sold a fictitious version of events. Their constant references to a "fence" in...
Fisk: This was a guilty verdict on America as well
Znet Article, November, 06 2006
Robert Fisk
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So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course - yet th...
Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb
Znet Article, October, 31 2006
Robert Fisk
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Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb
Fisk: Mystery of Israel's Secret Uranium Bomb
Znet Article, October, 30 2006
Robert Fisk
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Mystery of Israel's Secret Uranium Bomb
Fisk: The Age of Terror - A Landmark Report
Znet Article, October, 09 2006
Robert Fisk
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A few days after Lebanon's latest war came to an end, I went through many of the reporter's notebooks I have used in my last 30 years in the Middle East. Some contained the names of dead colleagues, others the individual stories of the suffering o...
Fisk: American and Muslim: six million people in search of an identity
Znet Article, September, 04 2006
Robert Fisk
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A guy with brown eyes and dark skin and a thick American accent walks up to talk to me. I guess he's an Iranian, possibly a Pakistani. Where're you from, I ask? "Austin, Texas," he replies. Fisk foiled again. But where do you originally come from ...
