"My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the……" — Luke Harding
"My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing."
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Luke Harding
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10 Quotes by Luke Harding
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On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left…
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Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs…
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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw,…
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I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across…
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Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred…
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Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women,…
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Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back…
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When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where…
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Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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