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  • From my home, I saw what the ’war on terror’ meant
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    All night I heard the jets, whispering high above the Mediterranean. It lasted for hours, little fireflies nthat were watching Beirut, waiting for dawn perhaps, because it was then that they descended.
    They came first to the little village of Dweir near Nabatiya in southern Lebanon where an Israeli plane dropped a bomb on to the home of a Shia Muslim cleric.
    He was killed. So was his wife. So were eight of his children. One was decapitated. All they could find of a baby (…)

  • Liberators as Murderers. The Way Americans Like Their War
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT FISK
    Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave?
    The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and the dead children; could these be just a few of many? Does the handiwork of the United States’ army of the slums go further?
    I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq. I was in the Baghdad mortuary, counting corpses, when one of the city’s senior medical officials, an old friend, told me (…)

  • Spotter Plane Seen Over UN Compound - Video
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Scenes Of Israeli Massacre In Qana 1996 Warning! - This video of an Israeli Massacre of Palestinian & Lebanese civilians in April of 96 is very graphic and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/quana_01_19_03.htm
    By ROBERT FISK
    05/06/96 "The Independent" — Qana: It is a soldier’s videotape, recorded — at the start at least — as just another incident to remember back home by a United Nations trooper after his six months’ tour of duty (…)

  • The United States of Israel? By ROBERT FISK
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk04272006.html
    Breaking the Last Taboo
    The United States of Israel?
    By ROBERT FISK
    Stephen Walt towers over me as we walk in the Harvard sunshine past Eliot Street, a big man who needs to be big right now (he’s one of two authors of an academic paper on the influence of America’s Jewish lobby) but whose fame, or notoriety, depending on your point of view, is of no interest to him. "John and I have deliberately avoided the television shows because we (…)

  • The march of folly, that has led to a bloodbath The Iraq War: Three Years On By Robert Fisk
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/20/06 "The Independent"
    It is the march of folly. In 1914, the British, French, and Germans though they would be home by Christmas. On the 9th of April 2003, corporal David Breeze of the 3rd Battalion, 4th US Marine Regiment - the very first American to enter Baghdad - borrowed my satellite phone to call his home in Michigan. "Hi you guys, I’m in Baghdad," he told his mother. "I’m ringing to say ’Hi, I love you. I’m doing fine. I love you guys.’ The war will be over in a few days. I’ll (…)

  • The erosion of free speech by Robert Fisk
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was the wrong sort of courage and she was defending the freedom of the wrong people
    03/11/06 "The Independent" — — You’ve got to fight. It’s the only conclusion I can draw as I see the renewed erosion of our freedom to discuss the Middle East. The most recent example - and the most shameful - is the cowardly decision of the New York Theatre Workshop to cancel the Royal Court’s splendid production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie.
    It’s the story - in her own words and emails - of the brave (…)

  • Robert Fisk: Who Benefits from a Civil War in Iraq
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lateline Video: Robert Fisk
    TONY JONES: Well, Robert Fisk is one of the most experienced observers of the Middle East and in his latest book, ’The Great War for Civilisation - the Conquest of the Middle East’, he draws on almost 30 years of reporting from his base in Lebanon to look at the forces which have shaped current events and conflicts Robert Fisk, thanks for being there.
    ROBERT FISK, WRITER & JOURNALIST: You’re welcome.
    TONY JONES: Now, unless you’ve changed your position (…)

  • Those Danish Cartoons: Don’t Be Fooled This Isn’t an Issue of Islam versus Secularism
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT FISK
    So now it’s cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed with a bomb-shaped turban. Ambassadors are withdrawn from Denmark, Gulf nations clear their shelves of Danish produce, Gaza gunmen threaten the European Union. In Denmark, Fleming Rose, the "culture" editor of the pip-squeak newspaper which published these silly cartoons—last September, for heaven’s sake—announces that we are witnessing a "clash of civilisations" between secular Western democracies and Islamic societies. This does (…)

  • The problem with democracy
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power
    By Robert Fisk
    "The Independent" — — Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn’t we award this to those Algerians in 1990? And didn’t they reward us with that nice gift of an Islamist government - and then they so benevolently cancelled the second round of elections? Thank goodness for that!
    True, the Afghans elected a round of representatives, albeit that they included some warlords and murderers. But then (…)

  • War without end : only justice, not bombs, can make our dangerous world a safer place
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    12/30/05 "The Independent" — — This was the year the "war on terror" - an obnoxious expression which we all parroted after 11 September 2001 - appeared to be almost as endless as George Bush once claimed it would be. And unsuccessful. For, after all the bombing of Afghanistan, the overthrow of the Taliban, the invasion of Iraq and its appallingly tragic aftermath, can anyone claim today that they feel safer than they did a year ago?
    We have gone on smashing away at the (…)