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Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 10 days ago
Palestinians ceased to exist in the United States on Thursday night. Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin managed to avoid the use of that poisonous word. "Palestine" and "Palestinians" – that most cancerous, slippery, dangerous concept – simply did not exist in the vice-presidential debate. The phrase "Israeli occupation" was mercifully left unused. Neither the words "Jewish colony" nor "Jewish settlement" – not even that cowardly old get-out clause of American journalism, "Jewish neighbourhood" – got a look-in. Nope. ... Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 3 days ago
All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's The Independent's mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers – "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze] reconciliation", was among the goriest of the past few days – and then there are files from the dark memory lane through which all Middle East history has to pass. ... Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 19 days ago
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. ...
Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 31 days ago
Just outside Andrew Holden's office at the Christchurch Press off Cathedral Square – and, believe me, New Zealand's prettiest city is as colonial as they come, a Potemkin town of mock-Tudor government buildings, Scottish baronial churches and wooden versions of Victorian homes – is a brightly coloured, cheerful little water-colour. Boarding a big steamship, thousands of New Zealanders in big broad-bottomed brown hats are lining the quaysides, the gangplanks and the decks. ... Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 24 days ago
Poor old Algerians. They are being served the same old pap from their cruel government. In 1997, the Pouvoir announced a "final victory" over their vicious Islamist enemies. On at least three occasions, I reported – not, of course, without appropriate cynicism – that the Algerian authorities believed their enemies were finally beaten because the "terrorists" were so desperate that they were beheading every man, woman and child in the villages they captured in the mountains around Algiers and Oran. ... Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 17 days ago
It was a weird week to be in the United States. On Tuesday, secretary of the treasury Henry Paulson told us that "this is all about the American taxpayer – that's all we care about". But when I flipped the page on my morning paper, I came across the latest gloomy statistic which Americans should care more about. "As of Wednesday evening, 4,162 US service members and 11 Defence Department civilians had been identified as having died in the Iraq war." By grotesque mischance, $700bn – the cost of George Bush's Wall Street rescue cash – is about the same figure as the same President has squandered on his preposterous war in Iraq, the war we have now apparently "won" thanks to the "surge" – for which, read "escalation" – in Baghdad. The fact that the fall in casualties coincides with the near-completion of the Shia ethnic cleansing of Sunni Muslims is not part of the story. ... Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 37 days ago
Al-Jazeera – much praised by the now-dying US administration until it started reporting the truth about the American occupation of Iraq (at which point, you may recall, George Bush wanted to bomb it) – is back in hot water. And not, I fear, without reason. For on 19 July, its Beirut bureau staged a birthday party for Samir Kantar, newly released from Israel's prisons in return for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers. "Brother Samir, we would like to celebrate your birthday with you," allegedly gushed al-Jazeera's man in Beirut. "You deserve even more than this... Happy Birthday, Brother Samir." ... Source: www.alternet.org --- 7 days ago
"We use phrases like 'victory.' We should be using phrases like 'justice for the people of the Middle East.'" ... Source: tvnz.co.nz --- 35 days ago
... Source: tvnz.co.nz --- 35 days ago
War journalist Robert Fisk on why New Zealand troops need to get out of the Middle East and how New Zealanders are in the dark about the situation there ...
Source: election08.scoop.co.nz --- 32 days ago
Robert Fisk at the Copthorne Hotel, Mt Victoria Wellington September 2008 - Images Kevin List ***** Robert Fisk was born 62 years ago in Maidstone, Kent – and if you’ve ever wondered about the residual worth of Latin and what happens to people who study it, the man did his BA in Latin, and [...] ... Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk --- 2 days ago
All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's the mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers – "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze] reconciliation", was among the goriest of the past few days – and then there are files from the dark memory lane through which all Middle East history has to pass. ... Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk --- 1 day ago
A feisty debate between Robert Fisk and the author Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman brought The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival to a close on a high note last night. ... Source: www.democracynow.org --- 11 days ago
Robert Fisk is Britain’s most celebrated foreign correspondent and has borne witness to countless tragedies in the Middle East for over three decades. With the publication of a new collection of essays, Fisk joins us to talk about the US elections and their bearing on Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Israel-Palestine. ... Source: lauraflanders.firedoglake.com --- 8 days ago
How is it possible to unfairly grill a prospective commander in chief on a raging war? After 8 years of Bush, have our expectations for what a top leader can articulate fallen so low as to make a meaningful debate impossible? To answer these questions, we turn to Robert Fisk, Britain's foremost foreign correspondent, who writes for the Independent and author of new collection of essays, The Age ... Source: thedistrictweekly.com --- 24 days ago
From our friend Dan Tsang, host of KUCI’s “Subversity”: *Robert Fisk in the Southland September 22 and September 23* Fisk has a new book, “The Age of the Warrior.” _Monday, September 22nd at USC, 7:30 pm in SAL 101_. University Park Los Angeles 90089 The room is Salvatori Computer Science Center, which, on the USC map, is located just off W. 37th [...] ... Source: rinf.com --- 18 days ago
Just outside Andrew Holden’s office at the Christchurch Press off Cathedral Square – and, believe me, New Zealand’s prettiest city is as colonial as they come, a Potemkin town of mock-Tudor government buildings, Scottish baronial churches and wooden versions of Victorian homes – is a brightly coloured, cheerful little water-colour. Boarding a big steamship, thousands [...] ... Source: www.topix.com --- 35 days ago
It's a tiny book, only 116 pages long, but it contains a monumental truth, another sign that one and a half million dead Armenians will not go away. ... Find more results for Robert Fisk on RSSMicro.com |
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Robert Fisk is a legendary Middle East reporter for The Independent and has been called "the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain." But he has that unfortunate angry-old-man attitude about the internet. At a recent lecture , "He recalled being challenged about a quote of his that had been published on a website - although he had never said it. 'But I read it on the internet,' was the response, to which Mr Fisk simply hung up." Reasonable! But what would you expect from a guy who has an entire method of online rhetorical smacking-down named after him? The term Fisking, or to Fisk, is blogosphere slang describing detailed point-by-point criticism that highlights perceived errors, disputes the analysis of presented facts, or highlights other problems in a statement, article, or essay.[1] Eric S. Raymond, in the Jargon File, defined the term as: A point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or (especially) news story. A really stylish fisking is witty, logical, sarcastic and ruthlessly factual; flaming or handwaving is considered poor form.[2] The term is named after Robert Fisk, a British journalist. Ha, it's like what we do! Here we posit that Fisk has become bitter to the point of irrationality due to his mass of online detractors. Then we support it with a quote from him: At one point, Mr Fisk retorted: “To hell with the web, it’s got no responsibility.” Fisked . [ OJB ] ...