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- Saturday, Feb 06, 2010
ZNet Article 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 of 1996 – 106 Lebanese killed by Israeli shellfire, more than half of them children – and delete the 1,500 in the 2006 Lebanon war. And forget, of course, the more than 1,300 Palestinians slaughtered by Israel in Gaza last year (and the 13 Israelis killed by Hamas at that time) after Hamas rockets fell on Sderot. Israel – if you believe the security elite of Israel's right wing here in Herzliya – is now under an even more dangerous, near-unprecedented attack. -
- Sunday, Jan 31, 2010
ZNet Article "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 East peace was "more difficult" to reach than he imagined. -
- Thursday, Jan 28, 2010
ZNet Article The border looks peaceful, but Hizbollah and Israel are preparing for war -
- Sunday, Dec 06, 2009
ZNet Article "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 his battledress. He was just a teenager with fair hair and blue eyes. Beside us a Soviet transport lorry, its rear section blown to pieces by a mine - yes, an "improvised explosive device", though we didn't call it that yet - lay upended in a ditch. In pain, the young man raised his hand to the mountain-tops where a Soviet helicopter was circling. Could I ever have imagined that Messers Bush and Blair would have landed us in the same sepulchre of armies almost three decades later? Or that a young black American president would do exactly what the Russians did all those years ago? -
- Thursday, Nov 05, 2009
ZNet Article 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 - they still are - and then the Iranians held fraudulent elections in June which put back the weird Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whom everyone outside Iran (and a lot inside) regard as a dictator. But now we have the venal, corrupt, sectarian Karzai in power after a poll far more ambitiously rigged than the Iranian version, and - yup, we love him dearly and accept his totally fraudulent election. -
- Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
ZNet Article A new trade deal is set to gloss over the murder of 1.5 million people -
- Tuesday, Oct 06, 2009
ZNet Article 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 -
- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
Video RT's Peter Lavelle spoke to Robert Fisk in Lebanon, who's one of the most renowned journalists and authors on the subject. -
- Sunday, Sep 20, 2009
ZNet Article 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) greatest enemy. -
- Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009
ZNet Article Seeing is believing. Providing you're not a Palestinian or an Armenian or anyone interested in property rights. -
- Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009
ZNet Article Fisk witnesses the courage of one million protesters who ignored threats, guns and bloodshed to demand freedom in Iran -
- Sunday, Jun 07, 2009
ZNet Article President Obama reaches out to the Islamic world in a landmark speech -
- Sunday, May 10, 2009
ZNet Article A Historic Day For Iraq But not in the way the British want to believe -
- Friday, Apr 03, 2009
ZNet Article 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 regards Hamas as a "terrorist organisation"? -
- Thursday, Mar 19, 2009
ZNet Article I can identify Lieberman's language with the language of Messrs Mladic and Karadzic and Milosevic. -
- Monday, Feb 23, 2009
ZNet Article 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, operating without independence. -
- Saturday, Feb 21, 2009
ZNet Article Barack Obama, they say, did not get on well with Bibi Netanyahu when he met him in Jerusalem before the American elections. -
- Saturday, Feb 07, 2009
ZNet Article I wonder whether we show the same power and passion as the earlier generations? -
- Thursday, Jan 22, 2009
ZNet Article 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 appointment of George Mitchell as a Middle East envoy was the least that was expected. Of course, Obama did refer to "slaughtered innocents", but these were not quite the "slaughtered innocents" the Arabs had in mind. -
- Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009
ZNet Article After killing hundreds of women and children, Israel was the good guy again, by declaring a unilateral ceasefire that Hamas was certain to break. -
- Sunday, Dec 28, 2008
ZNet Article A test of Obama's gumption will come scarcely three months after his inauguration. -
- Tuesday, Oct 07, 2008
ZNet Article When it comes to Palestine and Israel, the US simply doesn't get it. Biden and Palin hid like rabbits from the centre of the Middle East earthquake. -
- Thursday, Sep 25, 2008
ZNet Article Sami al-Haj walks with pain on his steel crutch; almost six years in the nightmare of Guantanamo have taken their toll on the Al Jazeera journalist and, now in the safety of a hotel in the small Norwegian town of Lillehammer, he is a figure of both dignity and shame. The Americans told him they were sorry when they eventually freed him this year – after the beatings he says he suffered, and the force-feeding, the humiliations and interrogations by British, American and Canadian intelligence officers – and now he hopes one day he'll be able to walk without his stick. -
- Sunday, Aug 03, 2008
ZNet Article If Obama is elected he will be enmeshed in the Middle East tragedy and forced to take sides... -
- Friday, Jun 20, 2008
ZNet Article The dangerous face of ordinary life has been captured by Iraqis on their mobile phones – reaching the places Western photographers can no longer go... -
- Saturday, May 10, 2008
ZNet Article Lebanon seems to feed on crisis, need crisis, breathe crisis, like a wounded man needs blood. The man who should be the president is head of the army and the man who believes he leads the resistance - Sayed Hassan Nasrallah of the Hizbollah - accuses Mr Jumblatt of doing Israel's work while Mr Jumblatt claims the head of Beirut airport security, Colonel Wafic Chucair, works for the Hizbollah and should be fired. -
- Sunday, Apr 27, 2008
ZNet Article How are the mighty fallen! President George Bush, the crusader king who would draw the sword against the forces of Darkness and Evil, he who said there was only “them or us”, who would carry on, he claimed, an eternal conflict against “world terror” on our behalf; he turns out, well, to be a wimp. A clutch of Turkish generals and a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign on behalf of Turkish Holocaust deniers have transformed the lion into a lamb. No, not even a lamb - for this animal is, by its nature, a symbol of innocence - but into a household mouse, a little diminutive creature which, seen from afar, can even be confused with a rat. Am I going too far? I think not. -
- Monday, Feb 04, 2008
ZNet Article 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 that rendition and beatings and waterboarding and the insertion of metal pipes into men's anuses – and, of course, the occasional torturing to death of detainees – has ended. -
- Tuesday, Jan 29, 2008
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- Thursday, Sep 24, 2009
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- Tuesday, Jan 29, 2008
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- Sunday, Jan 20, 2008
Video MIT, April 9, 2006 - Robert Fisk Talks Middle East Geopolitics, with introduction by Noam Chomsky.
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- Saturday, Jan 19, 2008
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- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Robert Fisk is Britain's most highly decorated foreign correspondent. He has received the British International Journalist of the Year award seven times, most recently in 1995 and 1996. His specialty is the Middle East, where he has spent the last twenty-three years. Currently the Beirut correspondent for the London Independent, Fisk has covered the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf war, and the conflict in Algeria. He is the author of Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (Atheneum, 1990), and his reporting from Lebanon has brought him international attention. He was the one who broke the story about the Israeli shelling of the U.N. compound in Qana, Lebanon, in 1996. Video Robert Fisk talks about his latest posting to Lebanon, shares his intimate understanding of the Middle East and tells us where the region-wide struggles are heading. Video Not terribly shocking but certainly terribly misunderstood. Robert Fisk is an award winning British journalist (7 time winner of British Press Awards' International Journalist of the Year award)that has covered the Middle East for more than three decades. He is one of the rare western journalists to interview Osama bin Laden, which he has done three times.
Here, he reads from the end of his book, "The Great War for Civilisation" Video Journalist Robert Fisk returns to the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Fisk recounts how Lebanese Christian militias who were under the control of the Israeli military murdered over 2000 Palestinians in the camps. Fisk also points to a building in the distance from where he insists the Israeli forces could witness the massacre. The Israeli government's own Kahan Commission found that future Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was personally responsible for the massacre. This is from a documentary Fisk made about "why so many Muslims have come to hate the West." But we know the real reason is because they hate our freedom, right? Video Few English-language journalists are as intimate with contemporary Middle Eastern issues as Robert Fisk. Ithaca College was fortunate to have the widely respected author as its Park Distinguished Visitor Series guest this spring. Video Middle East & Armenian Genocide - All Recent Video
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Robert Fisk's Bio Info: Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent of The I... moreRobert Fisk, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, is the author of Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (London: André Deutsch, 1990). He holds numerous awards for journalism, including two Amnesty International UK Press Awards and seven British International Journalist of the Year awards. His other books include The Point of No Return: The Strike Which Broke the British in Ulster (Andre Deutsch, 1975); In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-45 (Andre Deutsch, 1983); and The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East (4th Estate, 2005). lessMy ZSpace FriendsRecent Friends Messages
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