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"Meteorite Debris" |
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24 Sep 2005 09:13:31 PM |
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OT - U.S. BARS ROBERT FISK FROM ENTERING COUNTRY |
I am attending a talk by Robert when he visits Adelaide in a week. I
wonder if Ruddock/Vanstone will take orders from Washington and can
this visit too, hot on the heels of Scott Parkin.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=43&ItemID=8800
http://tinyurl.com/84ra5
U.S. BARS ROBERT FISK FROM ENTERING COUNTRY
by Doug Ireland
September 23, 2005
DIRELAND
The internationally renowned correspodent for The Independent -- the
great British journalist Robert Fisk -- has been banned from entering
the United States. Fisk has been covering war zones for decades, but
is above all known for his incisive reporting from the Middle East for
more than 20 years. His critical coverage of the Anglo-American
invasion of Iraq, and the continuing occupation that has followed it,
has repeatedly exposed U.S. and British government disinformation
campaigns. He also has exposed how the bulk of the press reports from
Iraq have been "hotel journalism" -- a phrase Fisk coined.
The daily New Mexican reports that "U.S. immigration officials refused
Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for
the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto
to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance
in the Lannan Foundation 's readings-and-conversations series
Wednesday night. According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program
officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order. Davis made
last-minute arrangements Wednesday for Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica
Radio's daily news show, Democracy Now!, to interview Fisk via
satellite from a television station in Toronto..." A recording of this
satellite interview will soon be available on the Lannan Foundation's
website.
I have long admired Fisk's unbeatably first-rate journalism, his
intrepid insistence on sticking his nose where the authorities -- of
whatever country he's in -- don't want him to go. He constantly shows
up the sluggish cowardice and indolent hand-out journalism practiced
by so many U.S. foreign correspondents from the safety of their hotel
bars. That the U.S. won't allow this great journalist into this
country to tell what he has seen and what he knows is a scandal.
If you're not familiar with Fisk's reporting, there is an entire
website devoted to it -- read Fisk's latest, and find an archive of
his articles (plus audio-visual materials) by clicking here. You can
also order Fisk's books, like Pity the Nation: The Abduction of
Lebanon, and The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the
Middle East.
Doug Ireland, a longtime radical journalist and media critic, runs the
blog DIRELAND, where this article appeared Sept. 22, 2005.
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25 Sep 2005 04:20:34 AM |
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Meteorite Debris wrote:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=43&ItemID=8800
http://tinyurl.com/84ra5
U.S. BARS ROBERT FISK FROM ENTERING COUNTRY
by Doug Ireland
September 23, 2005
DIRELAND
The internationally renowned correspodent for The Independent -- the
great British journalist Robert Fisk -- has been banned from entering
the United States. Fisk has been covering war zones for decades, but
is above all known for his incisive reporting from the Middle East for
more than 20 years. His critical coverage of the Anglo-American
invasion of Iraq, and the continuing occupation that has followed it,
has repeatedly exposed U.S. and British government disinformation
campaigns. He also has exposed how the bulk of the press reports from
Iraq have been "hotel journalism" -- a phrase Fisk coined.
The daily New Mexican reports that "U.S. immigration officials refused
Tuesday to allow Robert Fisk, longtime Middle East correspondent for
the London newspaper, The Independent, to board a plane from Toronto
to Denver. Fisk was on his way to Santa Fe for a sold-out appearance
in the Lannan Foundation 's readings-and-conversations series
Wednesday night. According to Christie Mazuera Davis, a Lannan program
officer, Fisk was told that his papers were not in order. Davis made
last-minute arrangements Wednesday for Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica
Radio's daily news show, Democracy Now!, to interview Fisk via
satellite from a television station in Toronto..." A recording of this
satellite interview will soon be available on the Lannan Foundation's
website.
R. Fisk, allow me to introduce you to Farley Mowat....
If you're not familiar with Fisk's reporting, there is an entire
website devoted to it -- read Fisk's latest, and find an archive of
his articles (plus audio-visual materials) by clicking here. You can
also order Fisk's books, like Pity the Nation: The Abduction of
Lebanon, and The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the
Middle East.
Freedom of religion does not include freedom *from* religion,
but freedom of speech *does* include freedom from speech.
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
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"I disagree with the second part."
- Detective Somerset of "Se7en", paraphrased
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