Robert Fisk
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ICH 28 April 2013: Robert Fisk : Syria and Sarin Gas
28 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Chemical Weapons Charade in Syria By Sharmine Narwani Let us be clear. The United States can verify absolutely nothing about the use of chemical weapons (CWs) in Syria. Any suggestion to the contrary is entirely false. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34763.htm Continue reading
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Libya — Lather, Rinse, Repeat — Syria: Liberal Imperialism and the Refusal to Learn By Maximilian C. Forte
One detects a strong tendency among liberal imperialists and assorted self-designated “progressives” to think of their actions and thoughts as being above history, as if residing in some altostratus of unimpeachable rectitude. If they pretend to act and think as if they were gods, it is not an historical accident. At the end of their… Continue reading
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Is Robert Fisk a Psychologist? By Kim Petersen
Much of what journalist Robert Fisk writes strikes a congruent cord with me; however, there are patches of his writing where he brays discordantly. In his recent article,1 Fisk launched into an ad hominen-laced tirade against Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Continue reading
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Egypt Independent Media Newslinks 19-20 February, 2011
20 February, 2011 — creative-i.info 20 February, 2011 Egypt: Struggle enters new a phase Across the Middle East the Fall of the Zionist Running Dogs! Robin Yassin-Kassab, “Syria Speeding Up” Muhammad Nusair, “Photo from Egypt: ‘Egypt Supports Wisconsin Workers’” Africa: Global NATO Seeks To Recruit 50 New Military Partners The Independent: Robert Fisk: These are Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 9-10 February, 2011
10 February, 2011: 16:02:38 — creative-i.info A selection of news, analysis and opinion on Egypt from the independent media. 10 February, 2011 Palestine is the key to Arab democracy Why Israel fears a free Egypt Mubarak on the brink of departure Egypt’s Foreign Minister slams US interference Striking Egyptian Workers Fuel the Uprising After 10 Years Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 9-10 February, 2011
10 February, 2011: 15:56:58 — creative-i.info A selection of news, analysis and opinion on Egypt from the independent media. 10 February, 2011 Palestine is the key to Arab democracy Why Israel fears a free Egypt Mubarak on the brink of departure Egypt’s Foreign Minister slams US interference Striking Egyptian Workers Fuel the Uprising After 10 Continue reading
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NYT’s Fisk Factcheck Fail By Peter Hart
The United States sent former ambassador Frank Wisner to Egypt to talk to Hosni Mubarak. Wisner garnered headlines when he declared support for Mubarak staying in power, causing the White House to try and argue that wasn’t the message the White House was trying to send. Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 8-9 February, 2011
9 February, 2011 — creative-i.info News and analysis from the independent media on events in Egypt 9 February, 2011 A longing for democracy Egypt: The danger to the revolution comes from Washington We’re All Egyptians Now! As Tahrir Square Goes so goes the Middle East? Let It Cut Both Ways-US Foreign Aid & Atate Sponsored Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 8-9 February, 2011
8 February, 2011 — creative-i.info News and analysis from the independent media on events in Egypt 9 February, 2011 A longing for democracy Egypt: The danger to the revolution comes from Washington We’re All Egyptians Now! As Tahrir Square Goes so goes the Middle East? Let It Cut Both Ways-US Foreign Aid & Atate Sponsored Continue reading
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Blogopopsicles of the world unite! by William Bowles
The Web has opened a veritable can of worms as far as the mainstream media are concerned, even so-called liberal journalists seem to feel threatened by the emergence of a global, independent media, the latest one to emerge being Robert Fisk (who I referred to in my last piece). Now whether, as fellow blogopopsicle Chris… Continue reading
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Letter from a far-off galaxy by William Bowles
1 August 2007 “I despise the internet. It’s irresponsible and, often, a net of hate. And I don’t have time for Blogopops. But here’s a tale of two gutless newspapers which explains why more and more people are Googling rather than turning pages.” — Robert Fisk: “No wonder the bloggers are winning”, Published in the Continue reading
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Media Lens: Beyond The ‘Blog-O-Bots’ – Part 2
23 January 2006 — Media Lens In Part 1 of this alert we reviewed Robert Fisk’s observation that “more and more people are trying to find a different and more accurate narrative of events in the Middle East. It is a tribute to their intelligence that instead of searching for blog-o-bots or whatever, they are Continue reading
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Media Lens: Beyond The ‘Blog-O-Bots’ – Robert Fisk On The British Media – Part 1
In the 1960s, psychologist Lester Luborsky used a camera to track the eye movements of subjects asked to look at a set of pictures. Some of the pictures were sexual in content – one showed the outline of a woman’s breast, beyond which a man could be seen reading a newspaper. The response of some… Continue reading
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Soldiers of misfortune: One story, two takes By William Bowles
So went the headline in the Independent on 1 April 2004 and the story (penned by ‘anti-war’ journalist Robert Fisk) occupied the entire front page and ran onto page 2. The four Americans, described by Fisk in the article as “contractors” were actually mercenaries or Private Military Contractors who worked for Blackwater Security Consulting and… Continue reading
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Upping the anté & wishy-washy liberalism By William Bowles
Richard Perle’s latest book “An end to evil: What’s next in the war on terrorism?” might well be described as the handbook for the imperium’s agenda for 2004 with its call for an invasion of Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style blockade of North Korea. The question to be asked of this quasi-fascist’s quest for… Continue reading
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Reverting to Type By William Bowles
Fisk’s headline is “This dictator will continue to haunt Iraq”. But it should have read “In spite of Saddam’s capture, the occupation will continue to haunt Iraq”. By making Saddam the focus of his ‘humanity’ Fisk reveals the hypocrisy of the liberal mindset, that finds it convenient to focus on the individual rather than on… Continue reading
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