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  • Robert Fisk: All over the globe, our leaders seem to be suffering from a severe bout of infantilism
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As someone who has to look at the eviscerated corpses, I can only shake my head in disbelief
    By Robert Fisk
    I wonder sometimes if we have not entered a new age of what the French call infantilisme. I admit I am writing these words on the lecture circuit in Paris where pretty much every political statement - including those of Messrs Chirac, Sarkozy, de Villepin et al - might fall under this same title. But the folk I am referring to, of course, are George W Bush, Lord Blair of Kut (…)

  • Robert Fisk in London
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Meyer
    On 11 October, the reporter Robert Fisk made one of his rare appearances in London. The bookshop, Bookmarks arranged for Mr Fisk to speak to an audience of about 250 in a church hall close to Tottenham Court Road. The event marked the publication of Mr. Fisk’s new book, The Great War of Civilisation, the Conquest of the Middle East, published by Fourth Estate, London.
    Robert Fisk is an outstanding journalist. His clarity, courage and in-depth knowledge have, throughout his (…)

  • How the world was duped: the race to invade Iraq
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How the world was duped: the race to invade Iraq.
    Exclusive extract from Robert Fisk’s new book (short version)
    When Colin Powell made his notorious final pitch for war at the UN Security Council, Robert Fisk was there. In the latest extract from his explosive new book, he recalls a tragi-comic occasion
    Published: 03 October 2005
    Read more exclusive extracts this week in The Independent
    The 5th of February 2003 was a snow-blasted day in New York, the steam whirling out of the road (…)

  • Shock and awe: the night Baghdad burned. Exclusive extract from Robert Fisk’s new book
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In an exclusive extract from his powerful new book about the Middle East, Robert Fisk watches in the Iraqi capital as the US air offensive begins in March 2003
    by Robert Fisk
    A pulsating, minute-long roar of sound brought President George W Bush’s crusade against "terrorism" to Baghdad. There was a thrashing of tracer on the horizon from the Baghdad air defences and then a series of tremendous vibrations that had the ground shaking under us, the walls moving, the sound waves clapping (…)

  • When nature and man conspire to expose the lies of the powerful, the truth will out
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What we were actually doing in Basra was to turn a blind eye on abuse, murder and anarchy
    By Robert Fisk
    "Water is your friend" was the advice regularly given to a truly good friend of mine here in the Middle East. The speaker was a member of the One-Thousand- Litres- a-Day-Keeps-Dehydration-at-Bay Brigade, although I have to say that the Arabs take a different view. After generations of sword-like desert heat, they take tea in the morning, endure an oven-like day without sustenance, and (…)

  • U.S. immigration officials refused to allow Robert Fisk to board a plane from Toronto to Denver
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lannan speaker delayed in Canada
    U.S. immigration officials refused Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance in the Lannan Foundation’s readings-and-conversations series Wednesday night.
    According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order.
    Davis made last-minute (…)

  • Sometimes I Wonder If There Will Be A Moment When Reality And Myth, Truth And Lies, Will Collide
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East? Whatever The West Decides
    by Robert Fisk
    It makes you want to scream. I have been driving the dingy, dangerous, oven-like streets of Baghdad all week, ever more infested with insurgents and their informers, the American troops driving terrified over the traffic islands, turning their guns on all of us if we approach within 50 metres.
    In the weird, space-ship isolation of Saddam’s old republican palace, the Kurds and the Shia have been (…)

  • Secrets of the morgue - Baghdad’s body count
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    The Baghdad morgue is a fearful place of heat and stench and mourning, the cries of relatives echoing down the narrow, foetid laneway behind the pale-yellow brick medical centre where the authorities keep their computerised records. So many corpses are being brought to the mortuary that human remains are stacked on top of each other. Unidentified bodies must be buried within days for lack of space - but the municipality is so overwhelmed by the number of killings that it can (…)

  • The Reality Of This Barbaric Bombing
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Reality Of This Barbaric Bombing Robert Fisk July 8, 2005 [last updated 14:32] From The Independent “If you bomb our cities,” Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes, “we will bomb yours.” There you go, as they say. It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush’s “war on terror” and his invasion of Iraq. We had, as they say, been warned. The G8 summit was obviously chosen, well in advance, as Attack Day.
    And it’s no (…)

  • Robert Fisk : The reality of this barbaric bombing
    8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The reality of this barbaric bombing
    by Robert Fisk
    If we are fighting insurgency in Iraq, what makes us think insurgency won’t come to us?
    "If you bomb our cities," Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes, "we will bomb yours." There you go, as they say. It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush’s "war on terror" and his invasion of Iraq. We had, as they say, been warned. The G8 summit was obviously chosen, well in (…)