Journalist Robert Fisk has lived in Lebanon for more than 25 years and gives his analysis of the political situation. TRANSCRIPT - REAL - WINDOWS
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Journalist Robert Fisk has lived in Lebanon for more than 25 years and gives his analysis of the political situation. TRANSCRIPT - REAL - WINDOWS
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11 October 2004
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Future generations will struggle to escape the legacy of the disaster in Iraq |
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Robert Fisk on the Presidential Debate, Iraq, Palestine and the International Criminal Court Democracynow.org (Robert Fisk talks 12 mins. after beginning of program) Audio - Read Transcript |
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The worse the situation in Iraq, the bigger the lies that Tony Blair tells us. |
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06 August 2004 (Audio)
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Robert Fisk reveals how the so-called Iraqi government controls little in Iraq beyond Baghdad |
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'Can't Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can't Bush?' |
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15 July 2004
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04 July 2004
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17 May 2004 (Audio)
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08 May 2004
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07 May 2004
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02 May 2004
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24 April 2004
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20 April 2004
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Iraq power handover 'a fraud' Transcript / Real Video / Windows Media Player |
16 April 2004
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13 April 2004
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Deaths of scores of mercenaries not reported (Full Story) |
10 April 2004
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09 April 2004
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07 April 2004
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A bloody day in Iraq: Eight US troops die as battles erupt (Full Story) |
04 April 2004
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Dust off the flak jacket. Lay low. And stay off the streets... |
03 April 2004
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Three more families now rage against the American occupation of their land |
01 April 2004
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Atrocity in Fallujah (Full Story) |
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Things are getting much worse. It's not just a 'spike' or an 'uptick' in violence (Full Story) |
31 March 2004 (Audio)
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Robert Fisk: "Most Of The People Dying In Iraq Are Iraqis" (DemocracyNow! Radio) |
30 March 2004
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Bremer closes hardline newspaper and Iraqis ask: Is this democracy US-style? (Full Story) |
29 March 2004
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Black flags and veils as religion returns to campuses of Iraq (Full Story) |
28 March 2004
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Britain's secret army in Iraq: thousands of armed security men who answer to nobody (Full Story) |
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Occupiers spend millions on private army of security men (Full Story) |
27 March 2004
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26 March 2004
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Slaughter of Iraqi 'collaborators' undermines US sovereignty hopes |
25 March 2004
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24 March 2004
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The day the 1st Armoured Division, with guns at the ready, came to check on our man in Baghdad (Full Story) |
23 March 2004
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Finnish civilians join list of fatalities as 14 British soldiers hurt in Basra |
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The chilling implications of this state killing (Full story) |
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20 March 2004
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18 March 2004
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'If I am told to go, I will go.' Spanish soldiers prepare to return to home front (Full Story) |
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17 March 2004
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Al-Qa'ida attacks intensify, but Iraqi police say: 'Let them come' |
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15 March 2004
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The West was warned. Now it is paying the price of the 'war on terror' (Full Story) |
14 March 2004
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Happy first birthday, war on Iraq (Full Story) |
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12 March 2004
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11 March 2004
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The life and unexplained death of a Palestinian militant (Full Story) |
10 March 2004
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Iraqi recruits put in the firing line while Americans retreat to safety of barracks (Full Story) |
09 March 2004
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Iraq constitution sealed at last, and immediately come the warnings of an upsurge in violence (Full Story) |
08 March 2004
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07 March 2004
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Insurers pay out 90 years after the 20th century's first genocide |
03 March 2004
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17 February 2004
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Beirut has moved on but the scars of war remain (Full Story) |
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17 February 2004 (Audio)
Robert Fisk discusses the
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15 February 2004
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British soldiers face new charges of Iraq brutality (Full Story) |
15 February 2004
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Did British soldiers lose all control and decency at the notorious Camp Bucca? (Full Story) |
13 February 2004
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The fantasy of democracy in an Arab state (Full Story) |
12 February 2004
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05 February 2004 (Audio Interview)
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02 February 2004
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Saudis blame God's will as 300 pilgrims crushed to death at Haj (Full Story) |
31 January 2004
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30 January 2004
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23 January 2004
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Revealed: The women who suffered Saddam's tyranny (Full Story) |
21 January 2004
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How the 19 billion 'dirty dinars' were quickly cleaned up (Full Story) |
07 January 2004
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Shot for a Mercedes and left to die: the highway 'Ali Babas' claim another victim (Full Story) |
06 January 2004
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In the marshes, Iraqis still find dead soldiers from old wars (Full Story) |
05 January 2004
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A birdsong that proves water is bringing Marsh Arabs' world back to life (Full Story) |
04 January 2004
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'The British said my son would be free soon. Three days later I had his body' (Full Story) |
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British soldiers 'kicked Iraqi prisoner to death' (Full Story) |
03 January 2004
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Far from Baghdad, soldiers and pilgrims shake hands (Full Story) |
02 January 2004
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A cruel sense of humour is all that is left for Iraqis to cling to after a suicide bombing (Full Story) |
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Mr Bush has one priority for 2004: Get America out of Iraq. Fast. (Full Story) |
01 January 2004
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War takes an inhuman twist with cats, dogs and donkeys turned into bombs (Full Story) |
31 December 2003
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Web lets Palestinian children find world beyond refugee camp (Full Story) |
31 December 2003
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The occupiers, as ever, are damned either way - especially when the innocent die (Full Story) |
30 December 2003
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UK charity seeks compensation over 'lost' cancer drugs for Iraqi children (Full Story) |
29 December 2003
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Checkpoints prove useless against suicide bombers in Iraqi holy city (Full Story) |
28 December 2003
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At least 13 die in Iraq suicide bombings (Full Story) |
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Hooded men executing Saddam officials (Full Story) |
27 December 2003
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From joy to despair: Iraqis pay for Saddam's capture (Full Story) |
26 December 2003
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Deaths mount on both sides on Christmas Day in Iraq (Full Story) |
26 December 2003
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Iraq through the American looking glass (Full Story) |
23 December 2003
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A glimpse of Old Iraq, age of Arab enlightenment, amid the bullets of 'democracy' |
22 December 2003
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Straw reinvents despotic little killer Gaddafi as courageous statesman (Full Story) |
21 December 2003
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Clerics plead with guerrillas to think of civilians as US counter-attacks take toll |
20 December 2003
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