What you might not be hearing in the USA

July 25, 2007 11:59 AM

Robert Fisk on post war Lebanon explains the reality on the ground and critiques US media coverage of the Middle East. via juan cole & icga contains YouTube
posted by adamvasco (7 comments total)

Everyone knows Robert Fisk is a journoterrorist who hates our freedom!

By the way, everyone should read his The Great War For Civilisation.
posted by inoculatedcities at 12:08 PM on July 25, 2007

I suppose your right to say whatever I want you to say, and will lay down your life if necessary for you to say it.
posted by blue_beetle at 12:16 PM on July 25, 2007

[support] not suppose. d'oh!
posted by blue_beetle at 12:17 PM on July 25, 2007

Fisk is great - I've actually read most of his last book (skipping the odd chapter is the subject wasn't of particular interest to me). He's smart and he knows his shit - more importantly he actually lives and breathes in the places he writes about. He doesn't sit holed up in a hotel and collect news from fixers in the hotel lounge.

Supporters of the war(s) don't much care for him but it's hard to disagree with his conclusions when he backs them up with a couple hundred years of history and the lessons our brave leaders have failed to learn from.
posted by Emoskimo at 1:43 PM on July 25, 2007

More Fisk, slightly mindblowing for the open minded.
posted by blue_beetle at 1:52 PM on July 25, 2007 [2 favorites]

From blue_beetle's Google Video link:

"I will not let 19 murderers change my world, and neither should you"

This is a fantastic lecture. I'm glad I happened to have the time free to watch it.
posted by [expletive deleted] at 7:20 PM on July 25, 2007

France fears new war in Lebanon
posted by adamvasco at 9:26 AM on July 28, 2007