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Robert Fisk and the language of power, danger words: Competing Narratives
Celebrated reporter -and verb- Robert Fisk had harsh words, “danger words” he called them, for host Al-Jazeera where he gave an address about the language of power which has infected newsman and reader alike. Beware your unambiguous acceptance of empty … Continue reading
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Robert Fisk on how the international press helped Israel censor the media
Israel murders off journalists in much the same manner as the US military often has done. That is their heaviest form of censorship- DEATH. But they have other methods, too, and world famous international correspondent, Robert Fisk, discusses how the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Censored, Censorship, Death, DIA, Gaza, Gaza reporting, international press, IRA, Iraq, Israel, Journalist, Journalists, Media, Military, Murder, Murders, Opera, Robert Fisk, US military
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Saddam Hussein’s last words
No news outlet made a fuss about them on our side of the Atlantic. Saddam’s last words. On Palestine. Robert Fisk asserts that Saddam Hussein took many secrets to his grave, especially about American and British complicity in the very … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, Arabs, Art, British, BSE, Chemical Weapons, CIA, complicity, Crime, DIA, God, Headlines, Intel, Intelligence, Interrogation, IRA, Iran, Iraq, IRS, Media, Military, Palestine, Robert Fisk, Saddam Hussein, The Nation, trial, Washington
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What authoritarian rule looks like
Several recent events have lead me to some dots that need connecting. The dots may seem wildly disparate: the kidnapping of peace workers in Iraq and Palestine, the recent NYT revelations of counter-protest tactics employed be the NYPD, and a … Continue reading
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Did US Staff Sergeant Robert Bales engage in a US military revenge killing?
(Robert Fisk) ‘The Afghan narrative has been curiously lobotomised – censored, even – by those who have been trying to explain this appalling massacre in Kandahar. They remembered the Koran burnings – when American troops in Bagram chucked Korans on … Continue reading →