Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Claud Cockburnwas an Irish American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland but had lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn also wrote the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation as well as one for The Week in London, syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 June 1941
war america drug
So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.
past keys massacres
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
views mountain medieval
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
thinking years answers
Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.
crush black panthers
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
political trying usual
Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
religious inspire religion
Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.
father party writing
Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.
zero trends world
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.
believe people hussein
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
war sick firsts
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
art action consequence
The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences
horse cheer medicine
No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
radio-waves corporations tvs
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.