Robert Fisk on Democracy Now 2of4

March 5 2007 Part 2

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News & Politics

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• robert
• fisk
• democracy
• now
• iraq
• israel
• palestine
• lebanon

[keflar5]

total legend, his coverage od the lebanon massacare in Lebanon in 82 is one of the best peices of journalism i've ever read. Never stop fighting.

"our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" Dr M.L.King

[travishenrichs]

Thanks so much for uploading these, love his book.

[seebali]

thankyou for the wonderful video. This guy is my hero

[mizzoulibertarian]

@dancebaby808 AIPEC RUNS AMERICAN MIDEAST FORIEGN POLICY. with three esceptions. ROn Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and Rand Paul

[Alexdurrant7]

@cds10690 LOL @ how wrong you were.

[k1a1t1h1y1]

dick cheney should be hung.

[tomitstube]

well for one dancebaby, the nobel "peace" prize is somewhat subjective in comparative relation to other nobel's, such as science, literature, etc. it has been awarded only on the premise of change.

since you're name dropping, google 'rachel maddow: the nobel peace prize and obama derangement syndrome'. just do it, it's a 4 minute clip and explains my position better than i can.

also, it's too early to indict obama on the middle east.

[dancebaby808]

if you find my indignity amusing, you must find it equally amusing that well-known journalists and intellectuals like Fisk and Chomsky are also indignant about the awarding of the Nobel to Obama. we're all indignant because Obama hasn't done anything! one cannot receive the Nobel simply on "nice words" alone -- action has to count for something, doesn't it? and thus far, Obama has shown us that when it comes to the Middle East, the US will continue to support Israel -- no matter what.

[tomitstube]

well that would be disappointing since obama has clearly said just the opposite publicly. pretty sure israelis knew what they were getting with netanyahu, which to me is like re-electing bush.

i find it amusing the indignity of people over the nobel peace decision. i got it. it was like this hard slap in the face to conservative americans for the 8 years of bush.  and the promise of more open dialogue, less public demonizing and saber rattling of rogue countries. we'll see, won't we?

[dancebaby808]

really? i read in an article yesterday morning that Obama has given the green light to Netanyahu to continue building Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian territory -- this after his deceitful speech in Cairo in which he agreed that peace in the region could not be reached until Israel stopped its building of settlements on Palestinian land. he's as crooked a politician as Clinton and Bush were before him. see Fisk's comments on the preposterous awarding of the Nobel to Obama.

[tomitstube]

i comprehend your cynicism, but it's all ready different. it's too early to be drawing comparisons with one of the worst foreign policies in our history.

[dancebaby808]

i don't think it will be any different under Obama's administration -- particularly with regard to America's policies in the Middle East.