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CONTENTS
ОглавлениеPREFACE
1 A firestorm coming
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
‘Thank you, Mr Clinton, for the kind words’
Brace yourself for Part Two of the War for Civilisation
The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war
Be very afraid: Bush Productions is preparing to go into action
‘Our guys may kick them around a little…’
2 Publish and be damned? Or stay silent?
So let me denounce genocide from the dock
You’re talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador
Armenia’s 1,500,001st genocide victim
Sneaking a book out in silence
Bravery, tears and broken dreams
A holocaust denier in the White House
3 Words, words, words…
We should have listened to Bin Laden
Poisonous academics and their claptrap of exclusion
The pen, the telex, the phone and the despised e-mail
The forgotten art of handwriting
‘Abu Henry’: what diplomats can get up to
4 Cinema begins to mirror the world
Applause from the Muslims of Beirut
My challenge for Steven Spielberg
We’ve all been veiled from the truth
When art is incapable of matching life
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one
Take a beautiful woman to the cinema
5 The greatest crisis since the last greatest crisis
A long and honourable tradition of smearing the dead
‘Middle East hope!’ – ‘Europe in crisis!’
A poet on the run in Fortress Europe
6 When I was a child… I understood as a child
Another of Arthur’s damned farthings
‘All this talk of special trains…’
7 The old mandates
The man who will never apologise
Whatever you do, don’t mention the war
‘The best defender on earth of Lebanon’s sovereignty’
The cat who ate missile wire for breakfast
The torturer who lived near the theatre
‘Duty unto death’ and the United Nations
8 The cult of cruelty
‘Bush is a revelatory at bedtime’
The worse it gets, the bigger the lies
‘He was killed by the enemy’ – but all is well in Iraq
9 We have lost our faith and they have not
The childishness of civilisations
‘If you bomb our cities, we will bomb yours’
10 ‘A thing invulnerable’
What the Romans would have thought of Iraq
Who now cries for the dead of Waterloo?
Witnesses to genocide: a dark tale from Switzerland
‘You can tell a soldier to burn a village…’
Should journalists testify at war crimes trials?
Where are the great men of today?
11 America, America
Fear and loathing on an American campus
How Muslim middle America made me feel safer
Will the media boys and girls catch up?
Brazil, America and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom
12 Unanswered questions
Is the problem weather? Or is it war?
Fear climate change, not our enemies
The strange case of Gunner Wills
13 The last enemy
In the Colosseum, thoughts turn to death
Dead heroes and living memories
The ship that stands upright at the bottom of the Sea
They told Andrea that Chris had not suffered
A street named Pétain and the woman he sent to Auschwitz
‘I am the girl of Irène Némirovsky’
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Also by Robert Fisk
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