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
foundation inquiry journalist
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
peace growing-up children
Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?
sri-lanka people thailand
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
religious prayer soul
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
gossip despair treachery
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
regulation behavior social
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.
running couple party
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.
travel imagination valleys
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
war self deception
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
law firsts prejudice
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
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.